Monday evening saw dueling television interviews between the two major-party candidates for president.<\/p>\n
Originally, both interviews were scheduled to take place on the same network, CBS, on its flagship news program \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d But Republican candidate Donald Trump balked at the idea that \u201c60 Minutes\u201d would correct his false claims on the program so he declined to participate.<\/p>\n
So CBS\u2019s Bill Whitaker interviewed Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris \u2026 and Trump decamped for the less-challenging environs of Fox News. There, Trump engaged in a conversation with Laura Ingraham, someone who\u2019d spoken at the 2016 Republican convention during which he first received his party\u2019s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n
On paper, this setup might lead you to assume that Harris fielded more challenging questions than did Trump. But we will let you judge for yourself. Below are 13 questions posed to the candidates during the two discussions. See if you can identify which candidate was the recipient of each question, testing your assumptions about how friendly or hostile each encounter actually was. (As a public service, we\u2019ve also included the candidates\u2019 responses.)<\/p>\n
Would you meet with President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a solution to the war in Ukraine?<\/span> Harris. The vice president was asked how she would approach the conflict in Ukraine. (Trump has already said he\u2019d talk to Putin.) (Her response: \u201cNot bilaterally without Ukraine, no. Ukraine must have a say in the future of Ukraine.\u201d)<\/span> How\u2019d you do? Did the questions comport with the expectations about difficulty that you had coming into the quiz? And if not: Did you actually read the questions?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Monday evening saw dueling television interviews between the two major-party candidates for president. Originally, both interviews were scheduled to take place on the same network, CBS, on its flagship news program \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d But Republican candidate Donald Trump balked at the idea that \u201c60 Minutes\u201d would correct his false claims on the program so he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDo you think [the other party] made a political mistake in this?<\/span>
\nI have known you for 20-plus years, a long time. And I looked at you and there was an emotional moment where, like, I think people around me were starting to tear up. Were you close to tearing up at that moment?<\/span>
\nSo for all the women out there \u2026 what do you say to them about the safety of our homeland?<\/span>
\nHow are you going to pay for that?<\/span>
\nHow is [your child] doing in college?<\/span>
\nSo, what kind of gun do you own and when and why did you get it?<\/span>
\nHow will you and [your party] ensure that all voters in hurricane-hit areas have their votes counted? Because this could be a close election.<\/span>
\nLet me tell you what your critics and the columnists say.<\/span>
\nAre you wearing those shoes today, same shoes?<\/span>
\nHow will you restore faith in our justice system?<\/span>
\nHow are you going to get this through Congress?<\/span>
\nDo we have a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?<\/span><\/p>\nThe answers<\/h3>\n
\nTrump. Trump was offered a chance to evaluate the effects of Biden stepping aside. (His response: \u201cWell, I\u2019ll tell you on November 6th, I can\u2019t tell you.\u201d)<\/span>
\nTrump. Ingraham wanted to know how Trump felt when Lee Greenwood sang at the Republican convention. (His response: \u201cWell, if I admitted that, I think I\u2019d lose a lot of votes.\u201d)<\/span>
\nTrump. This was how Ingraham framed a question about Trump\u2019s support among women. (The ellipsis excludes a riff about Trump\u2019s disparagements of other people, which would have given the answer away.) (His response: \u201cI say to the women \u2014 and I think I do very well with the women, actually. I think it\u2019s a lot of fake polling.\u201d)<\/span>
\nHarris. Harris was asked about her proposals to expand the child tax credit and provide tax breaks to small businesses. (Her response: \u201cOne of the things I\u2019m going to make sure that the richest among us, who can afford it, pay their fair share in taxes. It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations.\u201d)<\/span>
\nTrump. Trump was asked about his son Barron. (His response: \u201cHe\u2019s doing great. He\u2019s always a great student. Barron\u2019s a very good student. He\u2019s a tall student also, by the way.\u201d)<\/span>
\nHarris. Whitaker asked Harris about gun ownership, following up on a comment she\u2019d made during a conversation with Oprah Winfrey. (Her response: \u201cI have a Glock. And I have had it for quite some time.\u201d)<\/span>
\nTrump. Given questions about the effects of Hurricane Helene on voting, Ingraham gave Trump a chance to explain the GOP\u2019s approach. (His response: \u201c[Party co-chair] Lara [Trump] is working on it. Other people are working on it, and we\u2019re trying to make it convenient for them to \u2014 but they just lost their house \u2014 we\u2019re trying to make it convenient for them to go out and vote. But we are doing very well in certain areas that we weren\u2019t expected to do.\u201d)<\/span>
\nHarris. Harris was asked to respond to criticism from others in the media. (Her response: \u201cOK.\u201d)<\/span>
\nTrump. Ingraham wanted to know if Trump was wearing the shoes that he had on when he was shot in Pennsylvania. (His response: \u201cIt\u2019s different, but it\u2019s sort of similar, but it\u2019s sort of a little different. Those shoes are loaded up with lots of blood. I\u2019m not looking to wear them again.\u201d)<\/span>
\nTrump. After suggesting that the investigations into Trump were invalid, Ingraham gave him a chance to explain how he\u2019d respond if reelected. (His response: \u201cA lot of people say [getting back at them is] what should happen, if you want to know the truth.\u201d)<\/span>
\nHarris. Whitaker challenged Harris on explaining how she would get her economic agenda passed. (Her response: \u201cWhen you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I\u2019m talking about because their constituents know exactly what I\u2019m talking about.\u201d)<\/span>
\nHarris. Whitaker pressed Harris on the administration\u2019s relationship with Israel. (Her response: \u201cI think, with all due respect, the better question is: Do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people? And the answer to that question is yes.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n