On their regular “Week In Politics” chat on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, host Scott Simon asked NPR senior Washington correspondent Ron Elving how Kamala Harris and Tim Walz performed in their sit-down CNN interview. Elving said you knew they were fine because conservatives trashed CNN and Dana Bash after it aired.
SCOTT SIMON: Vice President Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, gave their first broadcast interview since they became the Democratic ticket. I – you know, you have to ask it like you’re asking a theater critic. How do you think they did?
RON ELVING: I’d say they held their own, and you knew they had because the conservative media sphere erupted in criticism of the interview and CNN and the host of the show, Dana Bash.
The only snippet NPR aired was Harris saying “my values have not changed” on the fracking question. Elving said…
