A big question was answered during the CNN interview of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz . Viewers saw for themselves why the Democratic standard-bearers did not rush to do such an interview earlier.
This message came through loud and clear not because Harris and Walz were in any way challenged by the questioning they faced from CNN’s Dana Bash. Quite the contrary, they handled all of them with flying colors. But rather the insipidity and formulaic nature of Bash’s questions—queries that for the most part merely echoed, and thus inadvertently lent credibility to, the limp GOP critiques of Harris and Walz—made it clear why such interviews add so little value to voters.
The vast majority of the questions posed by Bash during the course of the interview simply picked up and repeated one of the critiques with which Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance have sought to slow down the rapid rise of their Democratic opponents in the polls.