Harris did try it sometimes and sometimes Baier let up, other times he pushed back.

“I’m speaking” worked better against Mike Pence with a USA Today female moderator.

If he has the courage to do so, he could reply “yes, you are speaking but you are not saying anything, … or at least anything that makes any sense!”

Baier has a tricky hand to play when it comes to follow-ups, lest he be chastised with Harris’s “I’m speaking…,” one of the few trump cards which she does know how to play:

–“”I’m speaking’: Kamala Harris reins in Mike Pence during VP debate”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXFqTGBty1w

Harris, who has been President Joe Biden’s point person on immigration, has been largely criticized for her handling of the southern border, as more than 10 million illegal immigrants have come into the country under her watch. Border Patrol agents—who talked to the Post anonymously for fear of backlash from their bosses—expressed frustration with the Biden-Harris administration’s open-border policies that have let known criminals enter the country.

“Under this administration, they’ve done everything they could to make our job as inefficient as possible. They can’t outwardly tell us not to do our job, but when you’re watching criminals come in and get released, it sucks,” one agent said.

Under the Biden-Harris administration, Border Patrol lost a quarter of its workforce, and twice as many agents chose to retire early compared to the retirement rate under the Trump administration, the Washington Examiner reported.
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“The morale has never been as low in the Border Patrol, but under the Biden-Harris administration and her current ads, acting like she’s pro-border security is just putting salt on an already gaping wound for the morale of Border Patrol agents and law enforcement,” former Yuma Border Patrol chief Chris Clem told the Post, noting that suicides within the agency have sky-rocketed over the last four years.

“Kamala Harris has been bad for morale, for not only law enforcement around the country but also for our border security personnel.”

On Monday, the Border Patrol union, which represents 16,000 agents in the National Border Patrol Council, endorsed former president Donald Trump. More than a dozen Border Patrol agents already said in August that they would not vote for Harris in November, warning that the vice president would be “worse than Biden” on the border and she would prolong the four-year-long “nightmare.”

“Frustration” with the Biden-Harris open border must be the understatement of the year.

Of course, NOT attacking also “changes” or at least affects the picture of the presidential race in the US.

Just like indicting a candidate withing 90 days of an election changes the picture of the race, so the DOJ won’t (or once upon a time wouldn’t) do it; but NOT indicting a candidate also changes the picture of the race.

Everything done or not done affects elections.
Do what is right, let the consequence follow.

Baier may try to go easy on Harris, but she’ll have trouble answering the questions, so it will be taken for granted by the mainstream media that he was tough on her. If he tries to be a tough questioner and she has problems answering questions, would he have the guts to continue?
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The less you see of Biden, the fewer possibilities there are for him to mess things up, but yes, if he only has one public appearance every few days, he probably is more rested and perhaps even better prepared.

Is anyone else surprised she wasn’t immediately hit by lightning after saying that?