MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle thanked Fox News for the free press after the network lambasted her “softball interview” with Vice President Kamala Harris.
“To Fox News, I would say thank you because, as I learned from Donald Trump, all press is good press,” Ruhle told the crew of Morning Joe. “So, I am thrilled to be all over their airwaves all day long.”
Ruhle said it is ridiculous that Fox News hosts like Howard Kurtz are describing her sit-down with Harris as “Slow-Pitch Softball.”
“Obviously, for anybody who watched the interview I did with Vice President Harris, we sat down for 25 minutes, and we talked about one single topic, the economy,” she said. “It is the No. 1 issue for voters. If Donald Trump would like to sit down and have that same conversation, I’m ready for ya!”
The interview with Harris was “tricky” because many voters feel that Harris offers few specifics, according to Ruhle.
“Many people feel like she is speaking in platitudes. She’s speaking about an economic vision, and she’s not giving details,” she said. “She’s got an 80-page detailed policy proposal, and do I think that she answers every single question and gives people exactly what they want? She doesn’t.”
“Do you know why? Because she’s a politician, and none of them do,” she said.
Most politicians speak in platitudes, and Trump has offered nothing except mass deportations and blanket tariffs, according to Ruhle.
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“The thing I think she needs to answer for more is, despite all of the economic wins over the last four years, despite the fact that Donald Trump emotionally connected with that blue-collar worker, but he didn’t deliver for that blue-collar worker, she needs to solve for why he still polls better on economic issues,” she said.
“When you talk to voters across the board, they often say, ‘I don’t know what any politicians do for me, but I did get my taxes lowered,’ and she made it clear when the individual tax cuts expire next year, the one group of people who will get their taxes raised are people who make over $400,000 a year,” she said.