Here are the highlights from the almost 30-minute interview.
Baier Interrupts Harris Repeatedly
Baier appeared decided to derail Harris?s speaking factors?typically by echoing these of Trump. And it took him lower than 20 seconds to interrupt her for the primary time.
?You have to let me finish, please,? Harris stated throughout the alternate on immigration. ?I?m in the middle of responding to the point you?re raising, and I?d like to finish.?
As the interview progressed, Baier finally famous throughout a relentless back-and-forth second, ?We?re talking over each other.? Overall, he interrupted Harris at the very least 38 occasions in 27 minutes, though he did supply an apology at one level.
Harris Tries to Distance Herself from Joe Biden? A Bit
Baier?s questions primarily centered on immigration and border safety, inspecting how President Joe Biden and Harris have dealt with these points throughout their administration. However, Harris seized the chance to make her clearest effort but to differentiate herself from Biden.
?My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden?s presidency. Like every new president who comes into office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh, new ideas,? Harris said. ?I represent a new generation of leadership.?
Harris Mentions Republicans Endorsing Her? A Lot
Harris ventured onto the overtly pro-Trump community with the mission of reaching average Republicans, having earlier appeared alongside greater than 100 Republicans, together with former Trump administration officers who’ve endorsed her.
She seized each alternative to focus on these endorsements and made certain to reference Trump?s current remarks about Democrats being ?the enemy within.? He has additionally recommended he may want to make use of the army to cope with that ?enemy.?
Baier Tries to Bait Harris
After Harris famous that former Trump administration officers have claimed Trump is unfit for workplace, Baier appeared decided to elicit a sound chew from her. He requested if potential voters had been ?misguided? if the ?unfit? Trump was main her in some swing states.
?Why, if he?s as bad as you say, is half of this country now supporting this person who could be the 47th president of the United States?? he pressed, to which Harris replied that elections had been by no means meant to be straightforward. Baier then interjected, ?So are they misguided, the 50%? Are they stupid??
?Oh god, I would never say that about the American people,? Harris replied. However, she did reference another person.
Baier Makes a Mistake With Trump Clips
On the query of who’s recurrently demeaning Americans, Baier referred to as for a clip of Trump?s earlier interview with Fox News? Harris Faulkner, by which Trump referred to Democrats as ?the enemy within.? However, the flawed soundbite aired?one by which Trump insisted he wasn?t threatening anybody.
Harris responded, ?Bret, I?m sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy within, that he has repeated when he?s speaking about the American people. That?s not what you just showed.?
?I?m telling you that was the question that we asked him,? Baier countered after being referred to as out.
The subsequent day, throughout a dialogue with Faulkner and Harold Ford Jr., Baier admitted, ?I did make a mistake, and I want to say I did make a mistake.?
?When I called for a soundbite, I was expecting a piece of the ?enemy from within? from Maria Bartiromo?s interview, to be tied to the piece from your town hall, Harris, where you ask the former president about the enemy from within. It just had the piece about the town hall,? Baier added. In that city corridor with ladies voters, Trump had reiterated, ?It is the enemy from within, and they are very dangerous; they are Marxists and communists and fascists and they?re sick.?
