CNN's Bash says you could 'start a drinking game' for every time Harris uses the same talking points | Fox News
By: Kristine Parks
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CNN's Dana Bash and Semafor's David Weigel reacted to Vice President Harris' answers about her economic plan.
CNN's Dana Bash joked that you could play "a drinking game" every time Vice President Kamala Harris returns to her same talking points on the economy.
"When you listen to Kamala Harris on what she will do, you can almost start a drinking game every time she says 'small businesses','" Bash told a CNN panel on Wednesday.
Bash played a clip of Harris speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Philadelphia on Tuesday about her economic plan, where Harris reiterated her proposal to expand the tax credit for new small business owners from $5,000 to $50,000.
"She also talks about being a middle-class kid. That's also the front of her answers," Semafor reporter David Weigel told Bash, as another example of her repeating talking points.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) leadership conference, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Weigel suggested Harris leans on her rhetoric because she doesn't "have an answer" to voters' most pressing concerns about prices.
"If you look at the interviews they've been doing in local media, and they've opened up a bit more since the debate, the first question is often, 'what are you going to do to lower prices?' Which is a very hard question for an incumbent party to answer. And it has implications that are very Trumpian," he continued. "It is: Trump says he's going to do mass deportation, that'll decrease demand. Trump says he'll explore more energy, that'll decrease energy costs."
"Democrats can point to the fact that inflation is actually- it was bad two years ago. It's not now," Weigel said. "What people want to hear is how do you make the prices go down? So everything she says is something realistic that could survive a fact check that answers a very hard question."
"There is not a plan to say that we're going to lower the cost of your grocery bill to what it was in 2019. There was a pandemic. There was money supply inflation. You can't hit the button that makes that go away. But Trump has an answer that gets them through these questions. And Harris, I think, with a different set of incentives and a different relationship to something she can back up in a policy paper, she doesn't have an answer. So she goes to a larger, well, imagine a future where there are more businesses and this starts to ameliorate," he continued.
A new poll ahead of Tuesday's ABC News Presidential Debate shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Trump by eight percentage points among likely voters in Virginia.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images.)
During her first solo TV interview since becoming the Democratic nominee, Harris gave a lengthy response about her "middle-class" upbringing when asked what "specific" plans she has to bring down prices for Americans.
She concluded her answer by bringing up her plan to expand the tax credit for new small business owners.
Harris has proposed raising the corporate tax rate to 28% from the current 21%.
Her campaign also reportedly told Marc Goldwein, vice president of the Committee for a Responsible Budget, that it supports all tax increases on high earners proposed by President Biden for the 2025 fiscal year.
During an address Wednesday at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 47th Annual Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., Harris provided few specific details about the policies she would enact as president.
US President Joe Biden, from left, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on the Truman Balcony of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, July 4, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
At one point, Harris spoke about providing families with the necessary resources so that parents can "raise their children well," though she did not say what resources or how they would be provided.
"I grew up understanding the children of the community are the children of the community, and we should all have a vested interest in ensuring that children can go grow up with the resources that they need to achieve their God-given potential," the VP said.
Harris also appeared to undercut her own proposed policy to institute a federal price-fixing plan for corporations, telling the crowd that "very few" corporations actually "jack up prices" for consumers in emergencies.
Fox News' Stephen Sorace and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.
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That's one way to get the mail inners to fill out their ballots. Falling down, piss your pants drunk.
And you could drown in those drinks every time Trump tells a lie.
By the way Jim, you listed President Biden to be the author of the seed. Are you sure that's correct?
No, the fetch seed did that. Thanks Buzz.
BTW, you violated the RBR but since I am replying to you, I can't flag it. Shame.
She has about four little go to spiels and uses whichever is kind of in the ballpark of the asked question, when she can bothered to actually answer questions. She's too oft putting and vapid to speak off the cuff. There's a reason she's more hidden than Joe Biden was in 2020, despite Biden already having lost his mind.
She frequently stalls on a word and then comes back to it.
Words like "joy' and "time."
Right... and Donald doesn't endlessly repeat the same bullshit rhetoric at every rally and in every interview? Politicians have always prepared talking points and will repeat them during a campaign, if this is a revelation to Trump supporters then they truly haven't been paying attention or are about as sharp as a round stone.
So, saying politicians like "he who should not be named" also repeat talking points is "skirting the CoC"? Truly funny. I guess some don't want their echo chamber of bullshit challenged in any way.
You broke the RBR. Deal with it
All politicians continually repeat their talking points, often because those are the points they want to emphasize, and they repeat them to different crowds. Even "he/she who shall not be named" continually repeats the same lies over and over as his/her talking points.
This is neither unique or noteworthy.
Her answers consists either of her childhood personal stories, or gibberish word salads. Nothing substantial that could actually be achieved. Sadly for the Dems, she has a long and very bad record as a Senator and VP. She is just a stand-in for Biden and his failed policies and is far to the left of Bernie Sanders.
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Have you heard her opponent?
When compared to "he/she who shall not be named", her answers are the height of eloquence. But of course RBR prevents me from comparing directly.
At least she is not a perpetually failing business person and spouse. Her husband has been traveling the country supporting her.
She has been open and consistent about her policies to anyone who asks. She has posted for anyone who cares to look and, more than anyone else in the race, has explained HOW she plans to succeed in her policies. Nowhere in her plans does she include raising taxes through tariffs to make everything much more expensive for the middle and working classes.
It's telling that the very bloggers that covered for Clinton and Biden are turning on Harris so quickly.
And you can get extra credit if you can name that fake dialect she is using when she speaks
Here's a classic............
NO, not gonna do that again .
Did that election eve 2016 , everytime the talking heads had to call a state for trump , i drank a shot , all the while staying here on site . from what i was told later that alone was entertaining to some .
i paid for that for many many days afterwards , but laughing at the looks on their faces while doing so was ALMOST worth it .
Take a shot only when a swing state goes your way. You will have more fun and feel better the next day.
problem with that im not voting for either of the candidates even knowing one of them will.so that wont work .
I simply have no confidence in either and know there is no way in hell either of them can deliver on what they are saying . I doubt the cooperation or compliance will be there for either of them no matter who wins .
So i mitigate how much it will affect me individually , no matter who wins .
Then drink to who would be most presidential, or who is more likely to put the people first, or simply the one who is at least a decent human being.
Let us know when a candidate like that is nominated.
You cannot determine which of the two would be:
Like I said. Let us know when a candidate like that is nominated.
We used to have an honest media that would vet somebody like Harris.
Now they are in the tank for anything the dems put out.
I would love to see a full vetting of Harris compared with a full vetting of Trump.
So would I.
You quote-mined a portion of my single sentence to misrepresent what I wrote. That is intellectual dishonesty.
I stated that I would like a comparative vetting:
No, not to misrepresent.
She is the one who has not been vetted by the dishonest media.
You quote-mined in an attempt to misrepresent my meaning from a desire for a comparison to a desire for more vetting of Harris.
That is precisely intellectual dishonesty.
PROJECTION!
One candidate has been vetted and one has not.
Repeating what I wrote to thwart the continued attempts to misrepresent:
in that case ild be as sober as a member of the karri Nation squad carrying a silver hatchet . besides with these 2 candidates , the only adult beverages that wouldnt be a waste , would be thunderbird and cold duck .....anything else and its a waste of good booze .
Maybe Vic would have posted it had you stated:
I would love to see a full vetting of Harris compared to the already fully vetted Trump.
Cold Duck, LoL, didn’t know it was still on the market.
Yes, $7.69 for 750 ML from Uber Eats...
i can remember when that amount was about $2, just perfect for the under aged high schooler on a budget .
I think some of us might be showing our ages , just a tad .
You didn't say what I said. I want Harris vetted and you want the vetting of Harris to be part of a comparison.
She should be vetted on her own.
I'd like to see her vetted as vigorously as Trump was, but I will settle for our dishonest media doing a basic job of vetting.
Exactly.
He wants the vetting to be a who is worse narrative.
Yes, Vic! I want the vetting because it would better illustrate who the nation should elect to the presidency.
Obviously!
We have a binary choice between a wholly unfit traitor and someone who would be presidential, grounded, responsible, and patriotic.
No, you can call him all the vindictive names you want.
YOUR candidates can't go through or sustain a simple vetting on their own.
What are you afraid of?
I am not calling him names, Vic, I am using accurate descriptive labels.
Trump is a traitor. Trump is wholly unfit. Trump is also a vindictive, loose-cannon narcissist and a pathological liar. He demonstrated that he is willing to shit on the CotUS and disenfranchise the electorate. He is the only PotUS in US history who has tried to thwart the peaceful transfer of power with fraud, coercion, lying, and incitement in an attempt to steal a presidential election.
He is a negative curmudgeon who tries to convince the electorate that our nation is heading to third world status, that we are going into a depression similar to the Great Depression, that we are heading into WWIII, etc.
The guy is entirely irresponsible, self-centered and fails to leverage the expertise and knowledge of advisors because he always thinks he is the smartest person in the room. Arguably the worst nominee for president of any major party in our history.
Yeah, call both Trump and Harris out. There is no way on the planet that someone can dig up valid negatives of Harris that would hold a candle to the mountains of evidence illustrating that Trump should never be allowed to hold any position of public power, much less the presidency.
And just who do you propose does the vetting?
The very people who used to do it. Certainly not today's leftist media.
We would have to bring Edward R Murrow back to life, but then again, Harris won't answer questions from a real journalist.
I'm not the one who hid in the cellar during the 2020 campaign or refuses to do interviews in the 2024 campaign.
Harris is a degenerate Marxist and Biden was the traitor who took money from China and opened the US border and weaponized the justice system.
They should have been vetted by a fair and responsible press corps.
One benefit of full, honest vetting would be to show how utterly ridiculous claims like that are.
Oh goody, who vetted Vance other than lawyers hired by the RNC?