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Tackling the biggest questions of the week.

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Sharon McMahon
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Q: I would like to hear your take on the Harris/Walz interview, as well as your thoughts on them doing it jointly instead of separately.


A: I understand why interviewers ask people to respond to media narratives. The stories out there in both traditional media and social media are about things like, “Harris has flip-flopped on her policies about X,” “Trump called her racial identity into question, suggesting she only recently started identifying as a Black woman,” etc. And so questions during interviews often center around these things.

But I don’t know that it’s particularly helpful information as a voter. Because let me say this loud and clear:

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