HARRIS-WALZ CNN INTERVIEW TAKE-AWAYS: Harris Paints Her Leadership As Race and Gender Neutral in First Joint Interview
By Mona Austin (TSN): Vice President Kamala Harris resisted questions about the two things that have held people like her back in American society during an interview with CNN's Dana Bash Thursday night--race and sex. She sat down jointly with her running mate Tim Walz to let voters hear more about their personalities and policies. When asked about comments her opponent Donald Trump made doubting her Blackness, she simply said, "That's the the same old play book." Expecting more, Dash pried further, "That's all?" And Harris said, "That's all" refusing to give oxygen to Trump's tired tactics. She also refused to entertain any reference to the rarity of being a woman ascending to the top of the Democratic ticket. Exactly one week earlier she accepted the Democratic nomination to be their official candidate. When asked about the striking viral photo that captured the back view of her niece in pony tails gazing at Auntie Kamala acc...