Vice President Kamala Harris has finally been seen in public following her massive loss to now-President-elect Donald Trump on a beach in Hawaii.
The photo hit social media and immediately went viral, with several users on X making various comments.
On Thursday’s episode of her podcast, “Next Question with Katie Couric,” the veteran journalist had an in-depth post-election discussion with MSNBC host and former Democratic spokeswoman Jen Psaki. During the conversation, Psaki, President Joe Biden’s first press secretary, claimed that one of Harris’s “better interviews” was her appearance on Fox News with Bret Baier.
“I always find that people do better when they’re asked really challenging, pointed questions. I always felt that way about Hillary Clinton,” Couric said. “If you are giving them these almost weird, like, amorphous softballs, it’s really hard to kind of hone your message and be succinct and say what you really need to say.”
“I also felt that, and again, I think [Harris] really did well in so many areas, but I was frustrated by her inability to really succinctly answer questions at times, Jen,” Couric continued, according to Fox News.
“Like, if she was asked about changing the Supreme Court at that CNN town hall, she had an opportunity to talk about ethics and what, you know, [Supreme Court Justices Samuel] Alito and Clarence Thomas were doing, and she answered, like, in one sentence, and then went on to something that had nothing to do with the question,” Couric said. “You know, people notice that, and it’s like, ‘Answer the g-dd–n question, please!’”
Psaki then shifted the conversation to Vice President Harris’s now-infamous remarks on The View, where she was asked what she would do differently from President Biden. Psaki described the response as “one of the most damaging moments” for Harris.
“Ok, Jen, you’re an insider. Why didn’t Joe Biden say, ‘Listen, I know you’re going to have to separate yourself from this administration. Let’s talk about areas where you can, where they’re legitimate, and Godspeed,’” Couric wondered. “Because it- I think somebody wrote that it was almost as if they were more afraid of hurting Joe Biden’s feelings than winning the election.”
Psaki, who joined far-left MSNBC after her White House stint, responded by saying it was a “unique and painful summer” for Biden and that there “was a fragility” about him being sidelined by the Democratic Party. She also said that Biden was “beloved” by the party when he stepped aside and that Harris had “navigated the politics of that in a very tricky way.”
“It seems to me, if I were running for president, Jen, I would sit down with my brain trust, and I’d be like, ‘Okay, let’s play out these questions. What am I gonna say?’” Couric said.
“And I would have had a template that I would have carried around with me in every interview, and I would have reviewed them and said, you know, ‘This is what I believe, and this is how I’m going to handle a question like that.’ Now, why didn’t they- it just didn’t seem like that was done. Am I crazy?” she wondered.
