Political Scientist Details How Media Response To Harris’s CNN Interview Will Affect Her Campaign

you mentioned the Stark party differences in this country and you could really see that on play last night and tonight if you were on Twitter now known as X if you were looking at right leaning commentators they said that was a softball interview full of word salad nothing got accomplished if you were looking at more democratic more left-leaning commentators they were lauding Vice President kamla Harris and as you know not as many people today are watching cable news as they were in Pre previous generations so how is the rest of the media do you think interpreting this interview especially because given the weight of this interview as it was her first one and then explaining it and giving a consensus for those who aren't tuned into to cable news every second of their lives well you make a great point which is uh if you just listen to the right-wing uh media you would have a sense that this is all a disaster and if you listen to the leftwing media you would have a sense that she's the best politician since Franklin Roosevelt uh I think that that simply reflects what our country is like now um and I would say that in the past the mainstream media was worth on the order of four or five points in a general election for their bias to the Democrats uh I don't think I I doubt that's true anymore because the media is now fragmented it's not as if ABC and CBS and so forth aren't doing exactly what they've done uh over the years and it's not like the New York Times And The Washington Post don't write their hard news stories to match their editorial of course they do but uh people just get their news from uh sour es that a they think are reliable and B they think they're reliable in part because they already agree with the viewpoints uh that are there so I um uh I think you're right I by the way I thought it was a softball interview but then she hit the softballs correctly so in a way both are right how do I so you're right Charles you're right down the middle you got a little bit from this side a little bit from that side well you know it's funny because I don't know how you do it uh Brittney but after an event like that which I can see with my own eyes I uh don't listen to the commentators I I try to think about it myself and then maybe I'll listen to him I haven't listened to him yet I mean that's a really interesting point personally I watch whatever it is first to see it before it gets clouded by any type of commentary and then I tune in to see what people are saying which I personally think is the best strategy