Vice President Kamala Harris’ performance at CNN’s Wednesday town hall with Pennsylvania swing voters underwhelmed the network’s journalists and pundits — as she left the more than hourlong forum with verbose and evasive answers to queries posed by on-the-fence residents.
“What I’m hearing from people who I’ve been talking to … if her goal was to close the deal, they’re not sure she did that,” CNN anchor Dana Bash said immediately after the event outside Philadelphia.
BASH: People I’m talking to say if Kamala’s goal was to close the deal tonight, they’re not sure she did that. pic.twitter.com/6tbwIqnx4G
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“Having said that, any time that she can be in front of an audience and interacting with voters is a win as far as her campaign goes — and they are very happy about that.”
Veteran Democratic operative David Axelrod, the chief strategist on Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, said, “The things that would concern me is when she doesn’t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to Word Salad City.”
“And she did that on a couple of answers,” Axelrod said on a CNN panel following the