Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Sarah Ferguson Repeatedly Calls Out Kamala Harris for Ducking Question on Biden’s Decline

Ferguson: “Wasn’t Joe Biden then, to put it on him, wasn’t his refusal to recognize his own frailties the reason that you faced a nearly impossible task?”
Harris: “I ran against Donald Trump for president and Donald Trump ran on a platform that was in large part, I believe, misrepresenting his intentions to the American people. I do believe that there are a fair number of people that voted for Donald Trump who believed him when he told them that his first priority on day one is going to be to bring down prices, and he didn’t. And you combine that misrepresentation of intention with also what was at play in terms of massive amounts of misinformation and a truncated calendar in terms of the clock.”
Ferguson: “I want to interrupt you because that is a world-class pivot, but it is not the question that I asked you, which is about Joe Biden’s failure to recognize his own frailties and what that did to you. The question is about Joe Biden. Are you still reluctant to criticize the former president?”
Harris: “In what regard, please?”
Ferguson: “Well, just in terms of that question. So —”
Harris: “What exactly would you like to ask? Be more specific if you don’t mind.”
Ferguson: “Was it Joe Biden’s decision, his failure to recognize his own frailties in that position that put you in a position that made it almost impossible to win that race?”
Harris: “He was not frail as president of the United States.”
Ferguson: “But he had frailties. We all saw the debate.”
Harris: “I do believe that Joe Biden had the capacity to be president of the United States, and I’ve never doubted that he had the capacity to be president of the United States. If you want to talk about whether he had the ability to endure what a race for president of the United States would require in that political environment in 2024, as I’ve said in the book, I had concerns.”
Ferguson: “I’m just wondering, is there a reason why you won’t go to that prolonged frailty question? We saw the debate. We saw the difficulty he had marshalling his thoughts.”
Harris: “I have answered that question. I do not believe —”
Ferguson: “I think it’s just hard watching the debate to see how there could not be a problem long-term with someone who can’t marshal their thoughts. I’m not saying his acuity wasn’t present.”
Harris: “I talked about that in the book. And I also mentioned the context in which that debate occurred. And you’ll probably remember how I talked about that in terms of what his travel schedule had been, that — what he had been enduring in terms of the timing of that debate. I talk about it extensively in the book. I’m not shying away from that. That’s why I wrote it in the book, because I do know it’s a question people had.”