Of all the questions Vice President Kamala Harris could have been asked during her CNN interview, the one I wanted to hear the answer to the most – and the one I figured wouldn’t get asked – was on the subject of her staunch defense of President Joe Biden after his disastrous June debate performance.
Though it undeniably confirmed what Biden’s critics had been saying about his cognitive health for years, and even sparked rumors that some Democrats were already talking that very night about how maybe he should consider dropping out of the race, Harris boiled the debate down to one bad night out of three and a half years during a heated back and forth exchange with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“The Joe Biden that I worked with every day is someone who, as I have said, has performed in a way that has been about bringing people into the Oval Office, Republicans and Democrats, to compromise in…