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‘Intellectually Lazy’: Victor Davis Hanson, Megyn Kelly Rip Harris’ ‘Fake Affectations’ While Responding To Questions

Victor Davis Hanson and Megyn Kelly on "The Megyn Kelly Show" discussing Harris interview responses.

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson and SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly called out Vice President Kamala Harris’ “fake affectations” during her responses to questions about her campaign and policies.

During her current campaign, Harris has faced criticism for her vague responses and has been called out in interviews for failing to explain her flip-flops on certain left-wing policies from her 2020 presidential campaign. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Hanson remarked that he believes Harris hasn’t spent “any time” preparing for her interviews, as she allegedly relies on the corporate media to protect her.

“She does it every single interview, and she’s not stupid. I kid around, and maybe I’ve said she has a vocabulary of 500 words, but I think they give her these prep books, and she just is intellectually lazy. She doesn’t even read them, she doesn’t even spend any time. The idea is that, I think, ‘I’ve been so nurtured my entire life of being given things, whether it was from Willie Brown to start out or that the media will never cross me.’ And she’s right,” Hanson said.

The senior fellow detailed her appearances, from the debate stage on Sept. 10 to a recent interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, which he called a “disaster.” Hanson went on to call out the interviews, stating that he believed they “all knew” they would have to “help her.”

“It just got — it increased and spiraled, but they all knew what they were doing and it didn’t bother them. Her reaction to all that is, ‘I’m just going to wing it. I’m not going to pick up a prep book. I’m not going to look at policy. I don’t give interviews, I don’t do town halls, I don’t do press conference[s]. I don’t have to. So I don’t even want to know the data about my economic plan — I don’t care,'” Hanson continued.

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“A normal candidate, Megyn, would say, ‘Okay, I said I’m for wage and price control. Tell me the date that I’m going to start and what I’m going to say when they say, ‘Why don’t you start now? What is the date and how am I going to implement it?’ … They don’t do that with her,” Hanson said. “I think they just give up and they say if you try to prep her with the details, she’d get angry because she doesn’t want to do it and she doesn’t need to. And they’re right, she doesn’t.”

Kelly later jumped in to echo Hanson, stating how she appears to be “acting” the role of a presidential candidate and vice president.

“But you’re right on the actress front, because that’s what I see as well. I see somebody who is acting the role of a presidential candidate, acting what she thinks is the role of a vice president, and we see it over and over. That’s why one of the things that is so galling about the ‘hopes and dreams and optimism;’ is how she acts through it each time,” Kelly said.

“It’d be one thing if she said, ‘Look, I believe people are losing hope and that they shouldn’t because this should be a country of people who have aspirations, ambitions and dreams,'” Kelly continued. “I could actually stomach that. It’s her affect around it — her fake affectation with the hands and the gestures and the attempt to look like she’s just come up with this deeply profound inspo[ration] for the kids.”

Following her interview with Ruhle, the MSNBC host later admitted that Harris did not give detailed interview responses, stating it was due to her being “a politician.”