Kamala HQ Brags About Fox Host Giving VP ‘Credit’ In Short Clip From Remarks On Her ‘Dance Away From Bidenomics’
Fox News anchor Bret Baier offered his analysis of an economic policy speech from Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday that resulted in a blistering Washington Post editorial. And although brief praise in Baier’s remarks came sandwiched between longer but equally fair criticism, the Harris campaign cut it out and shared it as a brag on social media Friday evening anyway.
The Kamala HQ account on X shared a short 19 second clip of Baier giving Harris and the administration “credit for allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices,” leading the quote in the post simply by saying “Fox host” as a way to emphasize the fact that it wasn’t from a source considered friendly by the campaign.
Fox host: I need to give Vice President Harris and the administration credit for allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices. They have had success in bringing down the price of prescription drugs pic.twitter.com/aXNBgJVKv3
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 17, 2024
But the clip the Harris campaign put forth as both complimentary and credible was part of a longer piece of analysis by Baier that was not praise or credit, and in which Baier attributed some of Harris’s views first to Donald Trump – who like other Republicans has been accusing the Democratic nominee of being “a copycat.”
Baier said that Harris doing a “dance” to get away from Bidenomics, and said it’s hard to buy her talk of cutting red tape.
“It’s tough to imagine that the person in 2019 who wanted to ban fracking and ban plastic straws is now going to be the champion of cutting red tape and cutting regulations,” he said. “But maybe that transition is happening. We’ll see.”
It’s interesting to listen to a repositioning here, almost like, Vice President Harris hasn’t been part of the Harris, the Biden-Harris administration, or not part of the deciding vote for the $1.9 trillion that was added to the economy that a lot of people say sped up inflation and caused some of these problems. She is now trying to separate herself, or at least be different than the Biden economic plan. And Bidenomics. Interestingly, the first effort out of the gate is to the left of President Biden, with an effort that she says will go after price gouging. I just I was saying this before she started, that there are a number of economists, obviously on the right, but definitely on the left to, who have concerns with some of these plans.
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Also, when she talks about, former President Trump’s plans to raise taxes, that’s not what what he’s talking about. He’s talking about tariffs on other countries and their products coming in here so that the U.S. succeeds. I do need to give the Vice President credit and the administration credit, for the negotiation on on pharma and drug prices. They have had success on big, specific medications and bringing those prices down in negotiations that you heard from President Biden just yesterday. She tapped into that as well. But again, there is this dance of getting away from Bidenomics, creating her own vision and yet accepting some of the positives of that she wants to claim as the strongest economy in the world. So I think we’re going to see a lot of this in Chicago, next week.
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The other thing is striking to hear the vice president talk about cutting red tape and cutting regulations. I mean, that, again, is taking from former President Trump’s speech, and it’s tough to imagine that the person in 2019 who wanted to ban fracking and ban plastic straws is now going to be the champion of cutting red tape and cutting regulations. But maybe that transition is happening. We’ll see.
Watch the clip above via Fox News.
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