CNN’s Dana Bash Defends Harris Interview That ‘P**sed Off’ Both Sides
Dana Bash has hit back at critics of her interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she knows it was “just right” because it “p**sed off” both the left and the right.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, CNN’s chief political correspondent acknowledged that last Thursday’s primetime sit-down with Harris and running mate Tim Walz drew brickbats over everything from Bash’s opening line about what Harris would achieve in her first day in office, to not asking follow-up questions at key moments—including letting Harris shut down a question on Trump’s attacks on her racial identity.
“The fact that nobody in their entrenched camps was happy makes me think that I probably was in just about the right place,” Bash told The Daily Beast. “With everything I do, I think of like 2,000 things that I would have said or done differently.