An initial CNN preview of Vice President Kamala Harris’s first sit-down with the network indicates that the veep handled the questions pretty well. Bash asked about the shifts from Harris’s failed 2019 campaign with “How should voters look at some of the changes that you’ve made? Is it because you have more experience now and you’ve learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you’re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?”
To which Harris answered: “I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed – and I have worked on it – that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”
Solid. Separately Bash hyped the interview’s airing by telling the Washington Post’s Matt Viser that Harris said “that it was maybe TMI, but that she wanted to tell us the story of how that happened. You have to wait till [the 9 PM Eastern airing of the interview] for that TMI story.”