A top adviser of the failed Kamala Harris presidential campaign admits that the former candidate did not use a planned response to a defining question asked during an otherwise softball interview on "The View."
Harris senior campaign adviser Stephanie Cutter says she was shocked at how Harris answered when she was asked if she would have done anything differently from then-President Joe Biden over the previous four years. The question was an opportunity to separate herself from the unpopular president, but she refused to do so.
“There is not a thing that comes to mind," Harris said at the time. "I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact, the work that we have done."
The answer was used by Republicans as a cudgel to beat down Harris and tell Americans that there would be no distinction between a Harris presidency and that of the ailing Biden.