National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, told listeners that Kamala Harris’s Thursday interview with CNN “was a catastrophe because it exposed the case against her as being true.”

“I’m going to dissent from the ‘it was fine’ judgment that I’ve seen around the web and heard on this podcast — and rendered after her convention speech myself — and say that this was a catastrophe,” said Cooke.

“That was the best she could do.”

As Cooke pointed out, “All of the advantages that were conferred upon her by Dana Bash’s easy questioning, by the editing, by the combination of interview and infomercial that they put together, yielded that. The word salad you just mentioned was the first clip CNN released, the highlight. . . . That. That was the best that she could do.”

He continued, “And it reminds me of nothing more than when you have a record label put together a group and record a song and then use auto-tune and so forth to fix it. To the public, it sounds fine, but you’re never going to get any better than that. Whereas people who can actually sing and perform don’t need any of that nonsense.”

“Harris is clearly absolutely incapable of doing anything impressive. And that interview showed it.”

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