Kamala Harris served 'word salad' in ABC interview: critics

Kamala Harris dodges questions about whether Americans are 'better off' today during debate

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Kamala Harris served up another huge helping of “word salad” during her softball interview with an ABC affiliate – dodging questions and saying little of substance during her first solo media sitdown since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, critics told The Post Saturday.

“When a reporter asks about inflation and she responds by talking about [neighbors’] lawns, I’d say she is disconnected from everyday Americans,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) said.

“But worse, is that she has no plan to fix it because she’s the one who broke it.”

Harris went off on a series of cringe-worthy rants during her nearly 11-minute Friday interview with anchor Brian Taff of Philadelphia-based Action News 6, including after Taff’s initial question on how she’d bring prices down in the U.S.

“Well, I’ll start with this: I grew up as a middle-class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard,” said Harris, before moving on to greener pastures — but not the economy.

“I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn. You know? And, um, and I was raised to believe and to know that all people deserve dignity,” the vice president added.

She never said how she’d tackle inflation, but instead highlighted her proposed policy to give a $25,000 handout to new homeowners and provide tax breaks to new small businesses.

Harris’ answers are “perfect example[s] of why her handlers are concerned about her doing interviews,” said Republican political consultant Rob Ryan.

“When asked a basic question about the economy, she once again regurgitated the same story from the debate about growing up in a middle-class setting with a working-class mother.”

“At best, it was a disjointed response showing no real empathy or understanding of the issue and only repeating the lines that were drilled into her during debate prep, offering no real solutions.”

When asked how she’s different from President Biden, Harris also said a lot of nothing.

“Well, I’m obviously not Joe Biden, and I offer a new generation of leadership.”

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She then vowed to “invest in areas that need a lot of work,” without specifying any.

“My focus is very much on what we need to do over the next 10, 20 years to catch up to the 21^st Century,” Harris bizarrrely added.

Harris also skirted the question when asked why ex-President Donald Trump appeals to so many Americans.

Instead, she spent time speaking in circles before painting the Republican presidential nominee as divisive.

“I, based on experience and, uh, and, a lived experience, know in my heart, I know in my soul, I know that the vast majority of us as Americans have in common so much more than what separates us,” Harris said.

“And I also believe that I am accurate in knowing that most Americans want a leader who brings us together as Americans — and not someone who professes to be a leader who is trying to have us point our fingers at each other,” she said.

Perhaps, the veep’s clearest answer came after being asked about the country’s gun-violence epidemic.

Harris, a licensed gun owner, said she won’t take “anyone’s guns away” and supports the Second Amendment, but would beef up background checks and ban “assault weapons.”

“They’re literally tools of war,” Harris said.

Harris did the interview with the ABC affiliate three days after the network’s moderators came under fire for refusing to fact-check the veep during her presidential debate while fact-checking Trump five times.