David Axelrod: Harris went to ‘word salad city’ during CNN town hall –
In a recent critique, David Axelrod, a former adviser to President Obama, expressed his disappointment in Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance during a CNN town hall. He characterized her responses as being unclear and evasive, referring to them as ”word salad.” Specifically, Axelrod highlighted Harris’s failure to directly answer a question posed by CNN host Anderson Cooper about whether she would be more pro-Israel than Donald Trump, which she sidestepped by discussing Trump’s authoritarian tendencies instead. Axelrod emphasized that while Harris spoke for seven minutes, her remarks did not address the question about Israel directly, indicating a pattern of avoiding straightforward answers when faced with challenging inquiries.
David Axelrod describes Harris’s nonanswers during CNN town hall as ‘word salad city’
Former Obama adviser David Axelrod tore into Vice President Kamala Harris’s failure to answer questions clearly during the CNN town hall Wednesday evening.
“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,” Axelrod said. “And she did that on a couple of answers.”
Axelrod pointed to Harris’s answer on the matter of Israel’s war in Gaza. He said CNN host Anderson Cooper, the moderator, asked her a “direct question.”
“He has said that he’s casting himself as a protector of Israel. Do you believe you would be more pro-Israel than Donald Trump?” Cooper asked Harris.
In her answer, Harris swerved around a direct response, instead focusing on former President Donald Trump’s admiration for dictators, such as North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, without mentioning Israel.
“I believe that Donald Trump is dangerous,” she said. “And if the president of the United States, the commander in chief, is saying to his generals, in essence, why can’t you be more like Hitler’s generals? This is a serious, serious issue, and we know who he is.”
“There was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question [Cooper] was asking,” Axelrod said of the answer.
He also pointed to Harris’s answer on immigration, in which she defended President Joe Biden’s administration’s policies, as another example of his concerns about “word salad city.”
“I think we did the right thing,” Harris said. “But the best thing that can happen for the American people is that we have bipartisan work happening, and I pledge to you that I will work across the aisle to fix this long-standing problem.”
Axelrod called her answer here a “mistake.”
“On immigration, I thought she missed an opportunity because she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration’s policies, and that’s a mistake,” Axelrod said. “Sometimes you have to concede things, and she didn’t concede much.”
Still, he thought Harris was strong on other matters, such as abortion, “because she feels passionately about it.”
“I think she was very strong coming out of the gate, and she obviously came with a purpose,” Axelrod said.
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