Monday, October 14, 2024

MAGA furious as Kamala Harris agrees to Fox News interview

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

David Badash,
 The New Civil Rights Movement
October 14, 2024 

Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris looks on during her campaign event, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 13, 2024. REUTERS/Quinn Glabicki

The right-wing freakout is in full force after Fox News announced Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down for an interview with the network’s chief political anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania.

It will be the Democratic presidential nominee’s first official Fox News interview since entering the race in July.

“While Trump became the first major presidential nominee to back out of the traditional pre-election ’60 Minutes’ interview, Kamala Harris has agreed to sit down with Fox News for an interview this week,” noted Zeteo News’ Justin Baragona.

“Harris has upped her media appearances recently, having sat down with Stephen Colbert, 60 Minutes‘ Bill Whitaker and Howard Stern, among other personalities,” Deadline reports. “But she’s also been urged by some supporters to make an appearance on Fox News, populated by voices on the right, even though Baier is on the network’s news side. With an average of 2.3 million viewers, Special Report has ranked among the most watched cable news programs.”

Trump recently pulled out of a previously agreed-to interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” and has refused to do any more debates with Harris after the first one on ABC News. Before that debate, Trump had suggested two others. Next week Harris will appear in a CNN town hall, which originally was to be a debate until Trump pulled out.

“As of today, it has been **one month** since Trump’s been interviewed by a mainstream media outlet,” noted Harris campaign spokesperson Ian Sams, “as he has backed out of 60 Minutes and refuses to debate again.”

“Meanwhile Harris is willing to even go on Fox,” he added.

During the 2024 campaign Trump has done virtually no interviews with mainstream media outlets, avoiding The New York Times, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and MSNBC. He did sit down with NBC News’s “Meet the Press” for Kristen Welker’s first interview as the show’s new moderator last year in September.

The Nation’s John Nichols commented that Trump is “running scared.”

Trump supporters “swarmed all over Fox’s Bret Baier today like he was a Capitol Police Officer on J6 after he posted on Twitter that he will be interviewing Kamala Harris this Wednesday,” MeidasTouch News reports. “Baier received 2,200 comments on his tweet announcing the interview in just the first hour after he posted it.”

“Most of the MAGA comments to Baier follow a consistent theme – that they lost all faith in Baier after his tough interview embarrassed Trump last year, and that they expect him to go into this interview with guns blazing to win back their favor. They also mentioned some of the previous Harris interview conspiracies – that her earrings were airpods where she was getting the answers, that she was given the questions ahead of time, that Baier and Fox called the 2020 election too early for Biden, etc.,” MeidasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski reported.Journalist Mike Rothschild, who has written books on right-wing conspiracy theories, observed: “This is smart from the VP. She has nothing to lose by appearing on the news arm of Fox News (as opposed to the screeching infotainment arm) and if she breaks through to a fraction of their viewership, it’s worth it. It’s almost like the Harris campaign knows what it’s doing.”


'No stipulations': Fox News anchor says Kamala Harris offered 'wide open' interview



David Edwards
October 14, 2024 


Bret Baier (Fox News/screen grab)

Fox News anchor Bret Baier revealed Monday there would be "no stipulations" in his upcoming interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

During a Monday appearance on Fox News, Baier acknowledged a controversy surrounding an interview with Harris that was allegedly edited by CBS News.

"I thought Bill Whitaker did a good job asking matter-of-fact questions and following up," Baier said. "I think the controversy over the edit was a big, big deal for CBS."

"So that's not going to happen with us," he continued.

Baier then shared some details about the interview.

"It'll be essentially live to tape and no stipulations on the questions, wide open, there's no caveats that are coming to do the interview," he insisted. "So she'll take all and any questions."

Baier's interview with Harris is set to air Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET on Fox News.

Watch the video below from Fox News.



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