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‘Magnificent Job’: CNN’s Van Jones Claims Harris ‘Came Out Unscathed’ From Fox News Interview

'Magnificent Job': CNN's Van Jones Claims Harris 'Came Out Unscathed' From Fox News Interview

CNN’s Van Jones asserted Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris delivered an excellent performance during her Wednesday interview on Fox News.

Harris sat down for her first formal interview with Fox News on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” where host Bret Baier pressed her on the border crisis and how she would guide the country “forward.” Jones, on “CNN News Central,” accused Baier of being “rude” and “disrespectful” throughout the interview, while claiming Harris handled it exceptionally well.

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“I thought Kamala Harris did a magnificent job. First of all, I would now hope Donald Trump will go on MSNBC and talk to Rachel Maddow, okay? Because that is very tough to do when you’re on unfriendly territory. She went there. It was rude from the beginning. It was disrespectful from the beginning. He was talking over her, he was clearly not there to ask questions,” Jones said. “He was trying to attack her on behalf of [former President] Donald Trump, and it did not go well for him because it’s an inkblot test.”

“If you like Kamala, you’re going to like it more, if you don’t, you’re going to like it less. But Kamala Harris was able to acquit herself well in a hostile environment. Donald Trump couldn’t even answer a basic question about the dogs and cats lie or about the attack he led on the Capitol,” he continued. “So people will see what they want to. Kamala Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris went into the lion’s den and came out unscathed.”

Former President Bill Clinton’s one-time pollster Doug Schoen said on Wednesday the interview showed that the “Harris campaign really doesn’t have a closing message or strategy.”

“I don’t think it helped at all. I think she felt she’d reach some swing voters,” Schoen added. “But to me, the absence of clear answers, the real sense of, you know, confusion to perfectly logical questions that Bret asked, to me suggests that it underscored all of the issues and concerns that few undecided swing voters have. Don’t think it helped a bit.”

Trump currently holds small advantages over Harris in every battleground state except Wisconsin, according to RealClearPolling averages. Harris has faced backlash for how she has answered questions on the campaign trail, with critics asserting she delivers “word salads” that lack details during interviews.