‘That’s not true’: Charlamagne clashes with caller over whether Harris is worse at answering questions than Trump

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God sparred on Friday with a caller named Tank about whether Vice President Kamala Harris is less effective at answering questions than former President Donald Trump.

Harris made her first formal appearance on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier” on Wednesday, with the vice president receiving mixed reviews of her performance. Tank, on “The Breakfast Club,” accused her of not answering questions “directly,” with Charlamagne pushing back and arguing it’s Trump who “doesn’t answer questions directly.”

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“So after seeing that Fox interview with Kamala Harris, I guess my question is for the whole “Breakfast Club” … How can anybody support her anymore after she kind of dances around every question, never answers anything directly? And then, like, us American people, we just want to know, like, what she has to offer policy-wise, specifics and breakdowns and details,” Tank said. “And instead of dancing around these questions, why not hit us with these specifics so she might be able to persuade the Americans to vote for her? And I’m just not seeing that.”

A different caller on the show Thursday also argued Harris performed poorly in the interview.

“You know, it’s interesting when people say that because she lays out her opportunity economy plan every chance she gets, and then when she does that, she gets mocked for it, right? And then, you know, you say she dances around questions, even though I hear her dance — even though I hear her answer questions directly,” Charlamagne told Tank. “But Trump literally told you verbatim that he does this thing called ‘the weave’ where he’ll start one place and then talk, talk, talk, talk, take you somewhere else, and never come back to what he was talking about unless he wants to. He literally said that to you on my man Andrew Schulz’s podcast, but nobody ever brings that up and says he don’t answer questions directly. Why is that?”

“Right, but, okay, but when the American people go to ask Trump these questions, you hear him say, ‘Hey, how are you going to bring down the cost of living?’ ‘Oh, well, we’re going to bring down the cost of energy. That’s where we’re going to start, 50% in the first year.’ We’re not hearing these specifics and these details broken down,” Tank responded.

Charlamagne retorted, “That’s not true,” and claimed Baier failed to ask Harris a single “policy question that whole conversation.” Tank noted Baier asked her about immigration policy and the border crisis.

The caller also blamed Harris for the crisis, but Charlamagne defended her and parroted her talking points.

“The border is a bipartisan issue. It’s been a bipartisan issue. The border has been terrible under damn near every single administration, and it’s going to take bipartisan legislation to fix the border,” the radio host said. “You can’t fix the border with executive orders. It’s going to take Republicans and Democrats coming together to create legislation to fix the border. And guess what? They had that, and you know who shot it down? Donald J. Trump, because he didn’t want to give the Democrats any type of win. Those are just facts. And I mean, I don’t know what to tell you when you put facts on the table and present people with facts, and they still don’t want to see the facts.”

Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy required migrants to stay in Mexico while awaiting their U.S. asylum claims. Baier argued during the interview that the Biden-Harris administration’s shift away from this policy prompted the release of many single adult men who later committed crimes.

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