If Kamala's CNN "town hall" was meant to rehabilitate her image with the friendliest possible host on the friendliest possible network, it failed miserably.
Indeed, even CNN anchor Jake Tapper was forced to observe that Kamala failed to answer any questions and directed everything towards hating Trump. And anchor Dana Bash admitted Kamala's performance did not "close the deal."
As one social media commentator put it, "Kamala bombed that CNN Townhall. My opinion, but ouch. She's doing herself 0 favors. Her word salad answers are nauseating. Seems her only policy is, 'Trump bad'."
Based on my campaign communications experience (I quit counting at 300 campaigns) having a positive catchphrase or slogan associated with your campaign brand is crucial – Reagan's "Are you better off…," Woodrow Wilson's "He kept us out of war," and Trump's "Make America Great Again" were all winners.
"Word salad," not so much.
Yet that has become the Harris campaign catchphrase, even among Democrat loyalists.
- Democrat strategist and Senior Advisor to President Obama David Axelrod: She is word salad city.
- Obama advisor and liberal media personality Van Jones: The word salad stuff gets on my nerves.
Here are a few of the questions and nonanswers we gleaned from Harris's disastrous CNN appearance, do they get on your nerves the same way they got on Van Jones's nerves?
- Kamala suggested she'd pack the U.S. Supreme Court with far-left, activist judges: "I do believe that there should be some kind of reform The American increasingly are losing confidence in the Supreme Court."
- Kamala (again) failed to differentiate herself from Joe Biden: "I represent a new generation."
- Kamala couldn't answer why she hasn't done what she's proposing after four years in the White House: "I'm pointing out things that need to be done that haven't been done that need to be done."
- Kamala was unapologetic about decimating President Trump's successful border security upon taking office: "We did the right thing."
- Kamala joked about securing the border: "Let's talk about Donald Trump and that border wall. Ha ha ha ha!"
- Kamala denied being soft-on-crime — despite her support for Defund the Police, releasing violent criminals, ending cash bail, and decriminalizing illegal border crossings: "Misinformation."
- Kamala confirmed taxpayers will still be on the hook for illegal immigrants' benefits: "Part of what we need to do is always prioritize what we need to do."
- Kamala said her plan to address sky-high grocery prices is a Venezuelan-style price fixing scheme: "Part of my plan is to create a new approach."
- Kamala delivered a gigantic word salad to describe her sham "housing" plan: "A new approach that I bring to the issue of affordable housing, including, for example, rent, and again, I bring to it my experience, knowing what has been happening."
- Kamala defended her proposal for the largest tax increase in American history: "It's a complicated situation."
- Kamala couldn't say how her "plan" for grocery prices would actually lower the sky-high price of groceries: "I was attorney general of California..."
- Kamala — increasingly desperate — admitted she thinks President Trump is a "fascist": "Yes, I do."
The New York Post reports that after Harris's CNN debacle national Democrats have said that they're concerned about Harris's standing less than two weeks ahead of Election Day on Nov. 5 — as former President Donald Trump leads in polling averages of all seven major battleground states, demonstrating that clueless Kamala's Word Salad campaign isn't selling.
