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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Margaret Sullivan

Fox News’s interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism

Harris's side profile with an American flag behind her
Kamala Harris speaks to the press on the White House campus on 26 September in Washington DC. Photograph: Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Images

Bret Baier started off his Wednesday evening interview with Kamala Harris with a barrage of combative questions about immigration, designed less to elicit substantive answers than to prove what a tough guy the Fox host could be.

His aggressive approach was understandable, in a way, since Baier had been under pressure for days from the Donald Trump faithful; they were convinced he was going to go easy on the Democratic nominee for president, and maybe even allow her campaign to edit the interview or see the questions in advance.

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