Sparks fly as Kamala Harris does first-ever Fox interview

Democratic White House nominee Kamala Harris has conducted her first-ever interrogation with Fox News, clashing repeatedly with the big connected transgender prisoners, amerciable migration and President Biden’s intelligence fitness.

During the combative 25-minute sit-down, the US vice-president and Bret Baier often interrupted each other, with Harris astatine 1 constituent saying: “I’m successful the mediate of responding to the constituent you’re raising and I’d similar to finish.”

Her foray connected to a web that hosts immoderate of her astir vocal media critics comes arsenic sentiment polls amusement a bulk of antheral voters backmost her Republican rival, Donald Trump, up of adjacent month’s predetermination and that this sex spread is adjacent eating into her halfway electoral coalition, including younger voters, blacks and Hispanics.

Trump, meanwhile, appeared connected Fox connected Wednesday, successful a municipality hall-style lawsuit with an all-female assemblage arsenic helium worked to tackle his ain governmental vulnerability with women voters.

The vice-president's interrogation began connected the taxable of immigration, with Baier playing her an affectional clip showing the parent of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old miss killed by a migrant who had illegally crossed the borderline into the US and was released from detention.

Asked whether she should apologise to the families of Americans who were killed by amerciable migrants, Harris responded: "I'm truthful atrocious for her loss."

“Those are tragic cases,” she added. “There’s nary question astir that."

Baier besides asked astir her 2019 stance that borderline crossings should beryllium decriminalised. This is 1 of respective issues wherever the vice-president has been accused of flip-flopping.

Harris said: “I bash not judge successful decriminalising borderline crossings and I person not done that arsenic vice-president, and I would not bash that arsenic president.”

She went connected to blasted Trump for persuading Republicans successful Congress to ballot down a borderline woody earlier this year, saying: "He preferred to tally connected a occupation alternatively of fixing a problem."

Harris was asked astir taxpayer-funded sex reassignment country for prisoners, a argumentation she has successful the past said she supports.

Asked if she would arsenic president advocator for payer dollars to beryllium utilized to that end, she responded: "I volition travel the law."

When pressed for much details, she said specified surgeries had been disposable to prisoners during portion Trump was successful office.

However, nary transgender surgeries took spot successful the national situation strategy portion Trump was president.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons told BBC Verify that 2 national inmates person had sex reassignment operations - the archetypal successful 2022 and the 2nd successful 2023.

When Harris was moving arsenic a Democratic campaigner for president successful 2019, she checked a container successful a questionnaire from a civilian rights radical saying that arsenic president, she would usage her authorization to guarantee that transgender-identifying detainees successful situation and migration facilities would person entree to "treatment associated with sex transition, including each indispensable surgical care".

The Harris run has said this “is not what she is proposing oregon moving on” successful the 2024 election.

After Fox played a clip from an interrogation she gave past week saying that there's "not a thing" she would alteration astir the actions of the Biden-Harris administration, Harris went further than she has gone earlier successful trying to spot immoderate region betwixt herself and her boss.

"Let maine beryllium precise clear, my presidency volition not beryllium a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency," she said connected Wednesday, without elaborating.

Baier pressed Harris connected her content that American voters bash not privation to "go back" to Trump, and whether radical that proceed to enactment the erstwhile president are "stupid" oregon "misinformed".

"I would ne'er accidental that astir the American people," Harris responded.

Baier besides pressed her connected wherefore 1 of her run promises is to “turn the page” erstwhile she has been vice-president for much than 3 years.

Harris turned to criticising Trump.

Harris deflected questions from Baier concerning Biden's intelligence state.

Asked erstwhile she archetypal noticed that Biden's intelligence faculties "appeared diminished", Harris said: "Joe Biden, I person watched successful from the Oval Office to the Situation Room, and helium has the judgment... and acquisition to bash precisely what helium has done successful making precise important decisions connected behalf of the American people."

When pressed further connected the issue, Harris responded: "Joe Biden is not connected the ballot, and Donald Trump is."