The Week: Harris and Walz Sit for CNN

• Harris says her underlying values haven’t changed, which is a succinct description of the problem.

• Dana Bash threw Harris and Walz some softballs during their CNN interview: At one point, Bash asked Walz to react to his son’s cheering for him during his speech. But she did have a few pointed questions, too, and the Democrats had no good answers for them. Harris’s flip-flop on immigration went unexplained; Walz insulted the world’s intelligence by saying he had made an error of “grammar” when he said he had carried weapons “in war.” Nor did the Democrats do much to address their vulnerabilities. Harris’s defense of their economic record was to suggest, just as Biden often has, that they inherited a collapsing economy. In truth, it was recovering rapidly. It may take a debate for them to face a real challenge—and even that isn’t a sure thing.

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• Harris says her underlying values haven’t changed, which is a succinct description of the problem.

• Dana Bash threw Harris and Walz some softballs during their CNN interview: At one point, Bash asked Walz to react to his son’s cheering for him during his speech. But she did have a few pointed questions, too, and the Democrats had no good answers for them. Harris’s flip-flop on immigration went unexplained; Walz insulted the world’s intelligence by saying he had made an error of “grammar” when he said he had carried weapons “in war.” Nor did the Democrats do much to address their vulnerabilities. Harris’s defense of their economic record was to suggest, just as Biden often has, that they inherited a collapsing economy. In truth, it was recovering rapidly. It may take a debate for them to face a real challenge—and even that isn’t a sure thing.