Former Harris aide Symone Sanders-Townsend said Wednesday that Fox News anchor Bret Baier “pulled questions” for his interview with Vice President Harris from “a proverbial Trump/Vance press release,” hitting Baier over his “tone” throughout the interview.
“On the tone, I have sat in the room for a number of interviews with VP Harris and they have been tough,” Sanders-Townsend said in a post on the social platform X. “I’ve never witnessed what I witnessed tonight though. The interviewer wasn’t themselves — instead he was rude, misleading and pulled questions straight out of a proverbial Trump/Vance press release.”
“The best part is, VP’s response was simply to match his energy, stick to her why of the interview and not take the bait,” she added.
During the Wednesday interview, Harris and Baier clashed for a long time over immigration. The Fox News anchor started the interview by asking the vice president the number of immigrants that had crossed the border during her time in her current role. Harris acknowledged immigration was “a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have,” but Baier cut in to point out that it was 6 million immigrants.
Baier also pressed the vice president on the Biden administration’s decision to stop a policy from the Trump era that made potential asylum-seekers stay in Mexico to wait for the results of their case in U.S. immigration court.
Harris mentioned that the first proposed piece of legislation President Biden put forward after his inauguration was on immigration, but Baier also noted that the bill didn’t come up for a vote while Democrats held the House and Senate.
“We recognized from day one that — on the point of this being your first question — it is a priority for us as a nation and for the American people, and our focus has been on fixing a problem,” Harris said.
The Hill has reached out to Fox News for comment.
