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Has there ever been a phonier candidate than Kamala Harris?
During a Michigan event for Harris billed as a “town hall,” mega-elite host Maria Shriver shut down an audience member who tried to ask the veep something — explaining that only “pre-determined questions” were kosher.
With two weeks left to Election Day, and Donald Trump looking to have recaptured the momentum, publicly telling potential voters in a must-win state they’re not allowed to directly question the woman asking for their trust is . . . an interesting choice.
Yet it’s pretty much the only option for the Harris campaign.
Their candidate simply can’t function without a teleprompter; an open-question event for Harris would be like watching a drunk with an inner-ear disorder wander and weave across a minefield.
Look at her recent “media blitz,” largely a tour of softball venues: She did nothing but fumble, mumble and stumble.
Heck, she imploded so badly in her CBS “60 Minutes” interview that the network took emergency measures via some dishonest cut-and-pasting to make her sound better in answering a question about Benjamin Netanyahu.
It also refuses to release the full transcript of the interview, after airing just half of it.
Imagine how bad the raw Q&A must be, when what made it on air was still garbled, vapid nonsense.
That Harris can’t speak ex tempore is a huge disadvantage running against Trump, who — love him or hate him — has no fear at all about making off-the-cuff remarks.
And leaves no mystery about what he stands for or how he’ll govern.
The media runs interference for Harris because she’s a Dem, demonizing anyone who dares question her word-salads (or even responds with a simple huh?).
Which means that voters simply aren’t getting any real ideas of what Harris thinks or how she’d govern.
Worse, even her prewritten pablum is fundamentally incoherent, resting on the contradictory claims that she’ll “turn the page” on our current politics while also doing absolutely nothing differently from Joe Biden.
Voters can see through the smokescreen; it’s a major reason the race is trending Trump’s way — yet all Harris & Co. can think to do is blow more smoke.