The full interview with Kamala — Israeli analysis
Israel’s TOP analyst for American affairs AND NEWSRAEL Contributor, Dr. Kobby Barda watched the first interview of Candidates Harris & Walz, and here are his thoughts on the different issue talked about.
FRACKING
Harris claims in the interview (although Dana Bush, the interviewer, presses her gently and claims that she did oppose oil shale drilling.
In 2020, your administration opposed the ban then and would not enforce a ban on oil drilling today. As you remember, the countries of the Green new deal led by AOC, which the administration happily joined, as seen by the supporters in the photo below:
Harris understands that the issue is dramatic for the residents of the important state of Pennsylvania, she hit it hard earlier this month, so she sharpened the message. And so NOW, in the interview, she makes a magnificent flick-flack, of rowing towards the center because of the progressive fringes, who sanctified fracking as part of their doctrine.
In this she tries to deal with the issue of inflation, to which the price of fuel has a significant importance related to it, when in the interview she emphasizes the lowering of insulin prices for diabetics to a maximum of $35 per month, an issue that President Trump claims to have started in the first place during his time as president as part of the lowering of drug prices.
THE BORDER
The interviewer asks Harris about the current administration’s failure to manage the border, with special emphasis given to her as the “Czar” of the issue by the president, to which she replied that she made an effort and placed the blame on Trump for torpedoing legislation to help stop immigration, which is about 8 million illegal immigrants.
The law was supposed to add 1500 border inspectors, who were supposed to help stop the illegals, and then she was asked by the interviewer, about the fact that in a debate in 2019 she said that crossing a border should not be a criminal offense, Harris elegantly ignored it, and in this context also broke towards the center from the progressive fringes who called for the abolition of the immigration police ice.
Harris tried to use her experience as a California prosecutor as someone who was tough on immigration. At this stage of the interview the interviewer tries to (gently) understand the zig zag in her decisions regarding policy and whether the policy that is presented will actually be implemented and Harris said that she keeps what she says over the years.
ANOTHER QUESTION IGNORED BY KAMALA
Later, she was asked about Trump’s treatment of her and that she recently became black, she skipped.
ISRAEL
The next question was about Israel and I refer to a past Harris-Waltz interview regarding the war in Gaza.
One feels that Harris is trying to square the circle, but definitely calms (at least in my opinion) concerns about an arms embargo to Israel.
While not explicitly committing to this, it reiterates Israel’s right to defend itself following the events of October 7, with special emphasis on the rape of women (an issue that has apparently become controversial or a question mark as to whether it took place in some extreme progressive circles) and reiterates the need for a cease-fire and the return of captives.
GOV. WALZ’S SERVICE IN THE NATIONAL GUARD, OTHER LIES
In the third part, the interviewer addressed Governor Waltz and asked him about his service in the National Guard and confronted him with the fact that he did not carry a weapon in the war (and alluded to his avoidance of going to Iraq).
Using IVF and lying about drinking offenses in his past campaign, Waltz apologized for his past stumbles and said his decades-long record on school guns and most Americans understand the significance of that experience.
HARRIS DEFENDING HER DEFENSE OF BIDEN’S COGNITIVE STATE
Harris was later asked if she would retract her defense of Biden’s cognitive state and said absolutely not and that it was his judgment
was never hurt and that she was proud to serve as vice president and proud to run with Waltz for president.
Regarding Biden’s call to her to offer her to run, she described the situation of the call on Sunday morning and that he decided to pass the baton to her and it was clear that he would support me from the spirit of the conversation, and she complimented his presidency for a few minutes.
AUTHOR
Dr. Kobby Barda
Dr. Barda holds a Ph.D. in American Political history and International Affairs, specializing in research on Grassroots lobbies groups and their influence on Israel-U.S. relations. A senior researcher at the Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. Host and owner of the podcast “America Baby”.
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