By Dave Andrusko

Like many/most of you, my wife and I watched Fox News’s Bret Baier’s fascinating interview of pro-abortion Vice President Kamala Harris. Baier has taken hits from Harris partisans in the last 18 hours for interrupting Harris, and in some cases talking over her. But given what the Harris team wanted (and got), what choice did he have?

After the taped interview was broadcast, Baier explained what the Harris team did to shorten the already compressed time for questions.

Bob Hoge transcribed what Baier said:

So, we were supposed to start at 5:00 p.m.; this was the time they gave us. Originally, we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes. They came in and said, well, maybe 20. So it was already getting whittled down and then the Vice president showed up about 5:15. We were pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around for the top of the 6:00. 

Baier went on to say, among other things, that

I could tell when we started talking that she was going to be tough to redirect without me trying to interrupt. I did this with President Obama. At one point, I just said, Mr. President, I know you like the filibuster. I just didn’t even have the chance [this time], to sometimes redirect in those ways.

I had a lot of other questions.

Among the questions Baier might have asked was about abortion. But he had precious little opportunity.

Todd Starnes explained that “Baier told his colleagues that several Harris campaign staffers were frantically signaling to him off-camera to end the interview because his time was up. ‘I’m talking, like, four people waving their hands like it’s got to stop,’ he said. ‘I had to dismount there at the end.’”

As we enter the last 19 days before the November 5 elections, last night’s interview was a picture-perfect distillation of Harris’s end-game strategy.

First, no matter what the question, no matter how Baier specifically asked about actions of the Biden-Harris administration, Harris did one of two things: she blamed it on Trump anyway or, when there was no possible way she could link it to Trump, gave the non-answer answer—“I will follow the law. That’s my priority.”

Second, the Fox News audience is not monolithically conservative so Harris was appealing to that portion of the audience that is not. Thus, the breathtaking assertion that Trump was “increasingly unstable and unhinged and is seeking unchecked power.”

Remember this is the same woman who in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention said “With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past. A chance to chart a New Way Forward.”

Her “New Way Forward” is the same old demagoguery on steroids.