Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 much-anticipated CNN interview on Thursday did not go as she would have hoped, at least according to presidential election oddsmakers.<\/p>\n
Newsweek<\/a> reported, \u201cThe vice president went from being the favorite to win with odds of 10\/11 (52.4 percent) on Thursday to tied with Donald Trump on 19\/20 (51.3 percent) each on Friday morning, according to the Star Sports betting company.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOver the same period, Trump\u2019s odds of victory in November improved from 21\/20 (48.8 percent) before the interview to 20\/21 (51.2 percent), according to U.K. based bookmaker Betfair,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n Star Sports betting analyst William Kedjanyi also spoke to Newsweek.<\/p>\n \u201cVice President Harris is now tied at 19\/20 with Republican candidate Donald Trump, drifting slightly from 10\/11 yesterday,\u201d the analyst said. \u201cThe Californian had been 5\/6 in recent weeks but she has failed to surge ahead of Trump in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n Kedjanyi added: \u201cGOP supporters will hope Trump can now go on to tip the balance in his favor, before November\u2019s presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n Forbes<\/a> pointed out that while Trump was behind Harris by about 2 points among bookmakers following the Democratic National Convention last week, but then gained some ground over the past week following Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s endorsement of the Republican last Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cBettors on the crypto-based betting platform Polymarket are giving Trump slightly better odds of 50% to Harris\u2019 49%, while predicting both candidates have a roughly equal chance of winning the swing state of Pennsylvania,\u201d Forbes said.<\/p>\n After all the glitz and glamour at the DNC<\/a> last week, the visuals of the CNN interview made Harris look small, and not unlike the Wizard of Oz, created a \u201cperson behind the curtain\u201d-effect.<\/p>\n Spectator editor-at-large Ben Domenech noted, \u201cTelevision is mostly about visuals. Whoever set up this visual is terrible at their job. Bad lighting, makeup, hair, color choice, Walz\u2019s collar askew, angle making Kamala look small, water cup center shot, off the rack poorly fitting suit\u2026 this whole thing just looks bad.\u201d<\/p>\n Television is mostly about visuals. Whoever set up this visual is terrible at their job. Bad lighting, makeup, hair, color choice, Walz\u2019s collar askew, angle making Kamala look small, water cup center shot, off the rack poorly fitting suit\u2026 this whole thing just looks bad. pic.twitter.com\/6KqlthfuKn<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) August 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n Then there was her body language, which was telling. GOP Rep. Byron Donalds did a good job on Fox News Friday articulating the message she was sending.<\/p>\n \u201cForget all the things that she said,\u201d Donalds contended. \u201cPeople go back and watch her body language.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you ask her about her policies and the flip-flopping, she\u2019s looking down, she\u2019s looking small. She doesn\u2019t look like she has confidence in what she\u2019s saying, because she doesn\u2019t believe it,\u201d the congressman continued. \u201cShe\u2019s trying to remember what they coached her to say.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat is not the leadership that our country needs in this pressing hour. We need Donald J. Trump,\u201d Donalds concluded.<\/p>\n Go back & watch Kamala\u2019s body-language:<\/p>\n When she\u2019s asked about family, she\u2019s relaxed & makes eye-contact.<\/p>\n When she\u2019s asked about policy, she\u2019s NOT CONFIDENT & LOOKS AWAY.<\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n Because she doesn\u2019t believe these policies & is trying to remember what staffers coached her to say. pic.twitter.com\/5jbqyX1RGj<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) August 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n Most rational folks learn to take what politicians say with a grain of salt, but when a candidate is making major policies flips just a few months out from Election Day, buyer (especially) beware.<\/p>\n Harris said she now backs building a border wall<\/a>, opposes the banning of fracking<\/a>, and is not pushing for Medicare-for-All<\/a> as she did as a presidential candidate in 2019.<\/p>\n CNN\u2019s Dana Bash raised the issue of major policy flips in the interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHow should voters look at some of the changes that you\u2019ve made, that you\u2019ve explained some of here in your policy? Is it because you have more experience now and you\u2019ve learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary?\u201d Bash asked.<\/p>\n \u201cShould they feel comfortable and confident that what you\u2019re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?\u201d the CNN host further queried.<\/p>\n Harris responded, \u201cI think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n That\u2019s all you need to know.<\/p>\n Her values will equal her policies. Harris herself offered the perfect example to prove the point.<\/p>\n Having co-sponsored<\/a> the multi-trillion<\/a> dollar Green New Deal<\/a> as a senator, as vice president she cast the tie-breaking vote<\/a> in the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022.<\/p>\n \u201cYou mention the Green New Deal. I have always believed \u2014 and I have worked on it \u2014 that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act. \u2026 That value has not changed,\u201d Harris told Bash.<\/p>\n By the way, the \u201cgreen\u201d initiatives included in the IRA are costing almost three times more than the administration forecast, Bloomberg<\/a> reported in August 2023.<\/p>\n In April 2023, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School of Business, working with the investment firm Goldman Sachs, updated their estimated cost<\/a> of the legislation\u2019s green initiatives from $385 billion over a 10-year period to more than $1 trillion.<\/p>\n The CNN interview, her first sit down interview since becoming a presidential candidate 40 days ago, did not go well for Harris, and the oddsmakers and the voting population at large could readily see it.<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Election Odds Update: How Did Kamala Harris\u2019 Widely Panned CNN Interview Affect Her?<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 much-anticipated CNN interview on Thursday did not go as she would have hoped, at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n