The Democrats’ Kamala Harris Conundrum

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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a hilariously bad response to NBC’s Lester Holt when she was asked why she hadn’t visited the border yet amid her efforts to oversee the ongoing border crisis. The episode adds to the mounting evidence suggesting that Harris is not great at politics. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Tuesday June 8th 2021.
0:28.8	I'm John Pondhordes the editor of commentary with me is always executive editor Abe Greenwald.
0:33.1	Hi, Abe.
0:33.9	Hi, John.
0:34.9	Senior writer Christine Rosen.
0:36.0	Hi, Christine.
0:37.0	Hi, John.
0:38.0	And associate editor Noah Rothman.
0:40.0	Hi, Noah.
0:41.0	Hi, John.
0:42.0	Oh, and to schedules, this is going to be one short podcast.
0:44.3	So we're going to get right to it with Kamala Harris talking to Lester Holt on NBC news.
0:50.8	And being asked why she hasn't been to the border.
0:56.2	Where as we know she has been given the assignment to help solve the entire problem of the U.S.
1:05.4	border crossings from Mexico.
1:08.9	Her answer was, well, I haven't been to Europe either.
1:13.2	It must be watched to be believed though.
1:16.1	It's that.
1:17.1	You're giving her too much credit.
1:18.2	I mean, I haven't been to Europe in, you know, in a year, you know, since the pandemic
1:23.0	either, by the way, and so I guess I should be solving the border.
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