{"id":50260,"date":"2025-07-09T02:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50260\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T02:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:21:09","slug":"harris-aide-urged-the-view-hosts-to-ask-again-after-vp-flubbed-question-on-differences-with-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50260\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris aide urged ‘The View’ hosts to ask again after VP flubbed question on differences with Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019<\/a> aide implored the co-hosts of \u201cThe View\u201d to try asking Harris a second time about what she would have done differently from Joe Biden during the October 2024 interview on the ABC show, according to a new book.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you showed the famous clip there on \u2018The View,\u2019 she gives that answer, and our book reports her aides backstage, head in their hands. They try to get the hosts to actually do the question again, to hopefully revise her answer, which she never does,\u201d Josh Dawsey of the Wall Street Journal told MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d on Tuesday, explaining that Harris was unwilling to differentiate herself from Biden.<\/p>\n

Dawsey, Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf and New York Times reporter Tyler Pager\u2019s new book, \u201c2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,\u201d was released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Harris sat down with the co-hosts of \u201cThe View\u201d<\/a> in October 2024, as liberal host Sunny Hostin asked the former vice president if there was anything she would have done differently than Biden over the course of their administration to date.<\/p>\n

Harris responded, \u201cthere is not a thing that comes to mind.\u201d Her response quickly went viral and was widely viewed as a misstep, given Biden\u2019s unpopularity and Harris passing up a chance to create some respectful distance.<\/p>\n

Hostin initially asked Harris about the biggest specific difference between a potential Harris presidency and Biden\u2019s presidency. The then-vice president said the two were obviously two different people and said she planned to focus on home healthcare.<\/p>\n

Reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf join Morning Joe to discuss their new book \u20182024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America\u2019. MSNBC<\/p>\n

The new book explains that Harris aide Stephanie Cutter asked two of the co-hosts to try asking Harris the question again.<\/p>\n

\u201cBackstage on The View\u2019s set in Manhattan, Rob Flaherty, a deputy campaign manager, put his head into his hands and swore. During the next commercial break, Stephanie Cutter went to cohosts Whoopi Goldberg and Ana Navarro to ask them to try the question again, but Harris didn\u2019t get a second chance. After the interview, Harris knew she\u2019d messed up and asked how big the problem was,\u201d the authors wrote.<\/p>\n

Harris sat down with the co-hosts of \u201cThe View\u201d in October 2024. ABC<\/p>\n

An adviser said her answer on the liberal ABC talkshow was \u201cthe defining error of the campaign,\u201d the authors reported.<\/p>\n

Harris didn\u2019t give the answer she prepared with her aides, which according to the authors, praised Biden and emphasized that she didn\u2019t want to look back and critique their administration.<\/p>\n

US President Joe Biden speaks during a conference of the Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) at the Sofitel Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, on April 15, 2025. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The prepared answer also acknowledged that she was her own<\/a> person.<\/p>\n

Her aides also encouraged her to mention that she planned to appoint a Republican to her cabinet, which the former vice president did mention towards the end of the interview.<\/p>\n

Dawsey said during the MSNBC appearance on Tuesday that Harris didn\u2019t want to create public distance from Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe thinks it won\u2019t be authentic, she believes that it wouldn\u2019t work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 aide implored the co-hosts of \u201cThe View\u201d to try asking Harris a second…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[37983,171,82,27593,398,6219,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-50260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-2024-presidential-election","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-joe-biden","11":"tag-kamala-harris","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-the-view","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114820893133666240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}