<p>CNN&#8217;s David Axelrod, the chief strategist behind former President Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential campaigns, was critical of Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; town hall performance on Wednesday night, saying that she struggled to relate to people.</p>
<p>Axelrod made the remarks on the network following the 75-minute event with host Anderson Cooper.</p>
<p>&#8220;The things that would concern me is when she doesn&#8217;t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to &#8216;word salad city,&#8217; and she did that on a couple of answers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;One was on Israel. Anderson asked a direct question, would you be stronger on Israel than Trump? And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;On certain questions like that, on immigration, I thought she missed an opportunity because she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration&#8217;s policies, and that&#8217;s a mistake,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Sometimes you have to concede things, and she didn&#8217;t concede much.&#8221;</p>
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<p>He then noted that she struggled to relate on a human level to audience members who were asking her questions.</p>
<p>&#8220;You do want to relate to the people in front of you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;She didn&#8217;t do a lot of that. She didn&#8217;t ask them questions. She didn&#8217;t address them particularly. So, she was giving set pieces too much.&#8221;</p>
<p>The event produced a number of moments that were negative for Harris, including her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-asked-to-name-one-major-legislative-goal-she-has-she-couldnt-do-it">inability</a> to articulate a legislative agenda and her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-we-did-the-right-thing-by-letting-in-millions-of-illegal-aliens">admission</a> that the administration would do nothing different with respect to the border crisis.</p>
<p>She also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-trumps-border-wall-a-good-idea?topStoryPosition=2">admitted</a> that former President Donald Trump&#8217;s border wall was &#8220;a good idea,&#8221; despite having ridiculed the idea dozens of times in the past.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Top Democrat strategist David Axelrod on Kamala Harris&#8217; town hall performance:</p>
<p>“When she doesn&#8217;t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad city”</p>
<p>“She would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration&#8217;s policies and that&#8217;s a mistake”</p>
<p>“You… <a href="https://t.co/kT2uQrpPWp">pic.twitter.com/kT2uQrpPWp</a></p>
<p>— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1849305374299406710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2024</a></p></blockquote>

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