It’s checkmate as Kamala plays chess on Fox News

If you tuned into Fox News for a big helping of word salad, you left hungry.

Vice President Kamala Harris sat coolly, calmly, and turned away all of the sometimes hostile questions from anchor Bret Baier, who interrupted her at least a dozen times, which is uncharacteristic of him.

I got the feeling he was a thoroughbred under the whip of a very biased jockey. Meaning someone told him, “No Mister Nice Guy.”

Even their body language was telling. Baier was tense and coiled, leaning forward in his chair. Kamala leaned back, relaxed, legs crossed through the ordeal.

This is not to say she answered all the questions. She did not.

But she never flinched, she never showed fear, she never showed anger, even when I thought it was appropriate.

No, she wasn’t on drugs, either.

Her answers were quick and focused.

The biggest dodges came toward the end of the roughly 25 minutes, when Baier asked her when she noticed Joe Biden was diminished. She answered that she noticed his judgment and experience.

Weren’t you concerned? asked Baier.

Americans are concerned about Donald Trump, she said.

Baier’s questioning approached hounding, as it did with the first question, about illegal immigration.

He asked about the millions of illegals who were released during the Biden-Harris administration.

“That is a topic of discussion.”

No shit, Sherlock.

Baier could not get her to put a number on how many foreigners benefited from catch and release, and she turned the question into the bipartisan bill that Trump had quashed by his GOP lackeys.

In 2019, Baier said Kamala favored giving driver’s licenses to illegals, giving them free health care, and free tuition. Do you still feel the same? 

She said she would follow the law.

The question was a trap.

Baier sprung it by saying her running mate, Tim Walz, ordered all of the above as the progressive governor of Minnesota.

“We will follow federal law,” which was a clever sidestep.

She gave the same answer when asked if she approved of gender altering surgery for inmates.

Her campaign theme is turning the page.

From what? goaded Baier. You guys have been running the show for 3 ½ years.

From the rhetoric of the last 10 years, she coolly replied, vexing Baier.

It was kind of a chess match, with Kamala protecting her king every time Baier approached with a knight or rook.

Did it change any minds? Probably not.

But it must have come as a surprise to some “I only watch Fox” viewers, and MAGA heads, who have been fed a steady diet of “Kamala is a dope.”

Wednesday night, she wasn’t.