Ruhle did concede that Harris couldn’t “give a clear and direct answer.”
For perhaps the first time, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle was the smartest person in the room during her Wednesday interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. The interview went about as well as you could expect between a candidate who has dodged press questions and a “journalist” who justified Harris’ lack of availability to the American public because “she’s running against Trump.”
Ruhle did concede that Harris couldn’t “give a clear and direct answer,” though couched that by saying it was “okay because we’re not talking about clear and direct issues.”
But here are five times Ruhle asked Harris a “clear and direct” question but couldn’t get a “clear and direct answer.”
1. Why Should Voters Who Care About The Economy Choose Harris?
Ruhle asked Harris about her “economic vision,” noting “lots of Americans … don’t see themselves in your plans.” Harris responded by repeating her growing-up-in-a-“middle class”-family-line before rambling on about how she is so “energized by what I know to be the spirit and character of the American people.” Ruhle countered that “most likely voters still think Donald Trump is better to handle the economy.”
“Well, here’s what I know in terms of the facts,” Harris said unironically, “Donald Trump left us with the worst economy since the Great Depression, when you look at, for example, the employment numbers —”
“It was during COVID, and employment was so high because we shut the government, we shut the country down,” Ruhle interjected.
“Even before the pandemic, he lost manufacturing jobs … at least 200,000. He lost manufacturing plants.”
But “in terms of facts,” prior to the pandemic, Trump “presided over a gain of 414,000 US manufacturing jobs,” CNN reported.Kamala just claimed that President Trump lost 200K manufacturing jobs before the pandemic.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 25, 2024
This is a lie. It's not even remotely close to being true.
American added 414K manufacturing jobs in the first 38 months of the Trump admin.pic.twitter.com/QEQh7RRNeB