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Ruhle did concede that Harris couldn’t “give a clear and direct answer.”
For perhaps the first time, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle was the smartest person in the room during her Wednesday interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. The interview went about as well as you could expect between a candidate who has dodged press questions and a “journalist” who justified Harris’ lack of availability to the American public because “she’s running against Trump.”
Ruhle did concede that Harris couldn’t “give a clear and direct answer,” though couched that by saying it was “okay because we’re not talking about clear and direct issues.”
But here are five times Ruhle asked Harris a “clear and direct” question but couldn’t get a “clear and direct answer.”
1. Why Should Voters Who Care About The Economy Choose Harris?
Ruhle asked Harris about her “economic vision,” noting “lots of Americans … don’t see themselves in your plans.” Harris responded by repeating her growing-up-in-a-“middle class”-family-line before rambling on about how she is so “energized by what I know to be the spirit and character of the American people.” Ruhle countered that “most likely voters still think Donald Trump is better to handle the economy.”
“Well, here’s what I know in terms of the facts,” Harris said unironically, “Donald Trump left us with the worst economy since the Great Depression, when you look at, for example, the employment numbers —”
“It was during COVID, and employment was so high because we shut the government, we shut the country down,” Ruhle interjected.
“Even before the pandemic, he lost manufacturing jobs … at least 200,000. He lost manufacturing plants.”
But “in terms of facts,” prior to the pandemic, Trump “presided over a gain of 414,000 US manufacturing jobs,” CNN reported.
2. Harris Can’t Explain How She’d Pay For Her Socialist-Style Policies
Ruhle also asked Harris about taxes, noting Americans felt relief under Trump’s tax cuts. Harris promised that anyone “making less than $400,000 a year” will not see a tax increase. Harris vowed to expand the child tax credit, prompting Ruhle to ask how expanding the child tax credit or giving people money to purchase their first home could be accomplished without raising “corporate taxes or if the GOP takes control of the Senate.”
“Where do you get the money to do that?” Ruhle asked.
Harris said she would raise the corporate tax rate, prompting Ruhle to ask how Harris would walk the fine line between making “sure corporations are paying their fair share” but also “not leaving our country.”
Harris then rambled on about her relationships with CEOs who — according to Harris — will suddenly care more about “investing in the middle class” than they will about ensuring their profits don’t crater.
Ruhle later told fellow MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace that Harris never actually answered the question.
“If the GOP is controlling the Senate, if she can’t raise corporate taxes, where is she going to get the money from to expand the child tax credit and do whatever she wants to do? And she says, ‘We just have to do it,’” Ruhle said. “That’s great and that’s a campaign promise, but the issue is, if it means we’re gonna just borrow again, then what we’re doing is we’re just never addressing the deficit.”