Disrespectful Kamala Harris slammed for dodging questions in recent interviews: She owes us these answers

Vice President Kamala Harris has been criticized for avoiding specifics and dodging questions in the wake of multiple interviews she’s done this week, as media pundits demand she actually answer questions from the press.“This week she couldn’t or wouldn’t answer a single question straight, and people could see it.She is an artless dodger,” The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan wrote, suggesting voters now have a choice between “awful and empty.”Harris spoke to journalists this week during an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists (NAJB) and sat down with Oprah Winfrey, who endorsed her for president at the DNC.

Harris has yet to hold a formal press conference since emerging as the nominee.“She owes us these answers.It is wrong that she can’t or won’t address them.

It is disrespectful to the electorate,” Noonan wrote, arguing that avoiding questions on illegal immigration was “political malpractice.”The New York Times’ Todd Purdum, a former White House correspondent for the outlet, wrote on Thursday that Harris could not afford to be vague.“In a campaign in which Donald Trump fills our days with arrant nonsense and dominates the national discussion (and polls show a tight race where Ms.Harris is running behind Joe Biden’s level of support in 2020 with some groups), the vice president can’t afford to stick only to rehearsed answers and stump speeches that might not persuade voters or shape what America is talking about,” Purdum said.Purdum suggested that direct answers from the vice president would go a long way with voters.“Writing about politicians for decades has convinced me that direct, succinct answers and explanations from Ms.

Harris would go a long way — perhaps longer than she realizes — toward persuading voters that they know enough about her and her plans,” the journalist wrote.MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have suggested the opposite, arguing t...