In a combative interview with Fox News, Kamala Harris said in the most emphatic terms to date that, if she wins the election, she would pursue an independent presidency that would not be a repeat of President Joe Biden's nearly four years in office. Harris's declaration comes after she faced criticism over her recent interview on ABC's "The View," in which she could not identify any policy differences she's had with Biden since serving as his vice president.

The interview was possibly the most contentious of Harris's campaign: both she and Baier had something to prove. Fox News' conservative viewership wanted to see a hard-hitting interview while Harris needed to look strong and show the level of authority that Americans expect of a commander-in-chief.

She cited former Trump senior officials who've said he's unfit to serve as president. "I think the American people have concerns about Donald Trump," she said.

She said she wanted to move past "the decade in which we've been burned from the kind of rhetoric that Donald Trump" has used to "divide our country and have Americans literally point fingers at each other."

If Trump is so flawed, why do so many Americans support his candidacy, Baier asked. Does she believe voters are dumb?

"I've never said that," Harris said. Turning back to Trump, she said, "He's the one who tends to demean and belittle the American people."

She mentioned Trump's repeated mention of "the enemy within" that lurks within the U.S. and voiced concern that Trump would use the U.S. military to deal with such nebulous threats.

Baier and Fox News wasn't fooling anyone by treating the sitting Vice President like she was a suspect facing Trump's own prosecutor before the 10s of millions of viewers sure to watch this encounter. No one should question whether Kamala has both the patience and strength to deal with overmatched stickmen trying to dominate her not unlike the way she dominated Trump to his face as she again reminded Baier and the Fox News audience of what former JCS Chairman Gen. Milley had to say about Trump being this nation's greatest danger. By all unbiased accounts, Harris acquitted herself quite well which probably perplexed Fox News viewers (Earth II residents) who'd been assured by Trump and all his mouthpieces that Harris was inarticulate, not intelligent and a very weak person.

Mission Accomplished in demolishing that canard.

Democrats have got to be asking themselves if they made the right choice dumping Biden.

That would be the voice of Republicans lamenting Biden's choice, not Democrats. When have Democrats had hundreds of Republicans or former Republicans publicly back their presidential nominee like they have now with Harris? How many times have multiple GOP Vice Presidents spoken out publicly that the Party's nominee is thoroughly unfit for the Office he seeks? How many times have multiple Cabinet members and staff officials of the GOP candidate's former Administration come out for the Democratic nominee, stating that the President they used to work for has no business ever sitting in the Oval Office again?

And how many times have you seen a Democratic presidential nominee go into an openly hostile interview on Republican home base Fox News and when faced with an edited version of a clip meant to undercut the nominee's assertion that the GOP nominee has promised to use US military force against American citizens for simply not agreeing with said GOP nominee, then accurately argued the clip was edited, and then used the GOP nominee's own rhetorical device to confront her questioner by asserting multiple times "YOU and I know the truth is...." to which the GOP-aligned interviewer failed to disagree with even once?

Sure, we Dems are simply torn up that Biden is out and Killer Kamala took his place, bringing in $1 billion in less than 80 days. Can't you see how broken up we are as we watch her continually kick your nominee's - and now his Fox stickman's azzterisks over and over again?

Now, if you've never bitched like a 15 year old on her period like most of the left her about huge sums of money pouring into campaigns...then fine.

Geebus Ebs, how long you been here? I'd love to see federal campaigns funded through the government. But that isn't the system we have today is it? If you want a candidate to have a chance to win, they have to be competitive in raising campaign money.

Wanting one thing that isn't, doesn't mean you can't welcome the facts of the system that is, like 70% of Harris' money has come from contributions of $200 or less. THAT'S what is most impressive - the numbers of contributors AND the amount of the total.

Life is seldom binary. Or at least mine isn't and neither is yours. You write about such things all the time.

70% of the billion dollars? link?

The usual unsubstantiated and lame "whatabout" deflection attempt by that current alias.

You know those Yes-No questions about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs or whether Trump won the 2020 election are simply unconscionable to Strawlighter.

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The information is from Open Secrets and only goes thru 9/20. That's what the article lists and that's what I noted.

Why talk about Harris when the real news is about Trump's 'owners' - three billionaires.

you know what's in the hearts and minds of every billionaire.

For those 3 billionaires we do because each one has been public - or the records for the funds they've given reveal - exactly what they expect from their donations. Adelson wants casinos in Texas - for one thing among many, and got the US Embassy in Israel moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. She also received the Presidential Medal of Honor simply for funding Trump to the extent she and her late husband did. There's actual videotape of Trump's remarks when he gave her the award.

Musk tells us on Xitter everyday what he wants and believes, allowing the platform he owns to dispense lies and distortions against Harris with no effective counter fact checking.

And Uihlein not only funds Trump to the extent he does, he is the largest funder of groups dispensing disinformation and malinformation.

Just because you don't know something doesn't mean that others don't have factual information you're unaware of.

A total of 79 billionaires (or more) are backing Harris.

Wonderful. And if every 3 billionaires on Harris' list contributed the average that Uihlein, Musk and Adelson did in the 3rd quarter ALONE Harris would have $5.793 BILLION in donations from her billionaires. IN ONE QUARTER.

See where one isn't remotely like the other?

Isn't it possible for a handful of the billionaires contributing heavily to Harris to be giving sums similar to what those 3 are giving to Trump?

I just showed you that it's impossible. $200 small donors alone have given Harris close to $400 million, so even at the max, 79 billionaires contributing the other $600 million breaks down to $7.5 million per, one tenth of what Trump received from just 3 in 3 months.

And with Harris we're talking about donations from the very beginning going back to 2023, not just the last 3 months.

I'm not declaring anyone's money good or bad, I'm simply pointing out what we publicly know about the expectations and goals of Trump's 3 billionaire funders, two who he shares campaign stages with.

How many of Harris' have you seen on stage or expressing what they personally expect from a Harris presidency in the transactional way Trump equates every single thing in his life?

Ebs, go ahead and ascribe anything you like to me words because you haven't for a second understood why I mentioned that Harris took over from Biden on the fly and amassed over $1 billion in donations.

The post was in response to Democrats being sorry that Harris has replaced Biden. They haven't been, and the donations were only ONE of the points I made in that regards.

What others are saying about the Harris - Fox News interview:

Gotta go......it's now safe for the little trolls to enter and personally attack me.

No reason to attack you. I presented documented evidence of what the 3 Trump donors want from him, but you've offered no such details with Harris' Democratic donors, only claiming by inference that they're not unwanting either.

I never denied that. I have seen where some of her donors want the FTC commissioner gone and I've disagreed based on the little I know now. But one thing I doubt is that all 79 want the exact same things from Harris and most of them will go disappointed. We've seen Trump's transactional nature and it's documented by pardons, communtations, along with specific governmental actions and policies that assist both individuals and their corporations.

I'm not privy to anything similar from Harris or Biden to the degree we saw and are seeing from Trump. If you have the goods, please deliver them, but don't expect me to be critical of things that aren't presented as factual evidence of questionable returns given to major donors because of their large donations.

Another view from a billionaire:

Has she released the playlist yet?

which of her policy proposals that she detailed had you the most excited?

The one about keeping a 34 times convicted felon, tax cheat, charity fraudster, indicted classified document thief and insurrectionist, now promising to use the Justice Department, National Guard and active military go after citizens who don't agree with him out of the White House where he doesn't belong.

How about you?