Most normal observers would agree that Harris ‘wasn’t performing well in softball interviews’ in the fall of 2024, but that’s not what most journalists and pundits were saying at the time.
Now that Donald Trump is president and the 2024 election a distant memory, mainstream journalists can finally admit that Kamala Harris was a terrible candidate and her campaign was a complete disaster.
A recently published excerpt from a forthcoming book about the election offers an assessment of Harris’s candidacy that is dramatically different from the media coverage at the time.
“Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t performing well in softball interviews as her sugar high faded in September and early October,” journalists Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen write in their book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.