Bret Baier Says Kamala Wanted ‘Viral Moment’ In Fox Interview

Fox News anchor Bret Baeir opened up about his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and said he really thought all she wanted out of it was a “viral moment.”

Speaking Thursday morning on the network, Baier talked about his sit-down with Harris where he pressed her on issues like the immigration crisis, her handling of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, and her economic proposals.

“I left there right after the interview and I thought, ‘Wow, this was really a lot more contentious than I thought it was going to be,'” Baier told the hosts. “There was a lot of filibustering. I didn’t really want to keep on interrupting, but if I didn’t, I thought there would maybe be four answers total in the interview.”

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“And I think I came away with this, there were moments that clearly she prepared for that, I think, that she wanted to have [this] viral moment,” he added. “And she got it. And I think her campaign was happy with that.”

Following the interview, Baier revealed that if the interview seemed rushed, it was after he said Harris arrived 15 minutes late. He said the interview they were told would last 25-30 minutes was whittled down 20 by her team. Given that she was late, the entirety of the interview ended up being even shorter, with multiple members of her team waving their hands to wrap it up even though he had “a lot of other questions.”

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“They were watching the clock,” Baier said on Thursday. “And so we had to speed things up at the end.”

As to how far the needle will move for Harris, former pollster for former President Bill Clinton, Doug Schoen, criticized the VP’s unclear answers and said it will not help her with what he called the eroding “blue wall” in some key battleground states.

“The so-called blue wall of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania is eroding for the Democrats,” Schoen told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “There is a level of disorganization on the ground and incoherence vis-à-vis the messaging — that is clear.”

“The Harris campaign really doesn’t have a closing message or strategy, as we, I think, saw in Bret Baier’s interview with Kamala Harris today,” he added. “I don’t think it helped at all. I think she felt she’d reach some swing voters. But to me, the absence of clear answers, the real sense of, you know, confusion to perfectly logical questions that Bret asked, to me suggests that it underscored all of the issues and concerns that few undecided swing voters have. Don’t think it helped a bit.”

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