Did Kamala Harris's Fox News Interview Win Over Swing Voters?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The media strategy for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign took a turn when the Vice President granted an interview to Bret Baier of Fox News in an effort to win over those frustrated with Donald Trump. Harris claimed in the interview that she will have a different Presidency than Joe Biden, but did viewers learn what that would mean in practice? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Courage. I learned it from my adoptive mom.
0:02.8	Hold my hand?
0:03.8	You hold my hand.
0:04.8	Learn about adopting a team from foster care at Adopt US Kids.
0:09.8	You can't imagine the reward.
0:11.4	Brought to you by Adop US Kids, the U kids the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council
0:18.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.4	Kamala Harris's campaign changed its strategy on interviews, drops her play it safe plan, and
0:30.9	even appears on Fox News to sit down with host Brett Bear.
0:34.1	How did she do?
0:35.4	Why did she do it?
0:36.6	And how will it affect the race, if at all?
0:39.4	Welcome, I'm Polish you go with the Wall Street Journal
0:41.6	opinion pages, and this is our daily Potomac watch
0:44.9	podcast I'm here with my colleagues Kim Strassal and Kyle Peterson so an abrupt
0:50.0	turn here in the last week or so for the Harris campaign interviews on Howard
0:54.6	Stern's radio program Charlemagne the God the podcaster before that the
0:59.4	women hosts on the by the campaign to expose the vice president to more questions.
1:14.8	She had been playing it pretty safe.
1:16.8	Kyle, what's your explanation?
1:18.6	Well, I think it may be getting to them the criticism that she had been shielded from the press and running a kind of
1:25.0	basement campaign.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Wall Street Journal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Wall Street Journal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.