Kamala Harris ‘presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s’

Distancing herself from President Joe Biden, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris asserted that she represented a new generation of leadership and if elected she would bring “fresh and new ideas” to the presidency.

“Let me be very clear: My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency,” Harris said Wednesday in a contentious interview on Fox News, her first appearance on the right-leaning network, as part of her media blitz.

“Like every new president that comes into office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas. I represent a new generation of leadership,” she said during the 30-minute interview.

Pressed about her previous advocacy for Biden’s mental fitness for office before he ended his reelection campaign. Harris reiterated that Biden has the “judgment” and “experience” to be president and then turned the question around to be about her Republican rival Donald Trump.

“Joe Biden is not on the ballot, Donald Trump is,” she said. “He’s unfit to serve. He’s unstable. He’s dangerous. And people are exhausted.”

The Indian American Vice President also denied she wants to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings. During the initial back-and-forth on the subject of immigration and border security, Harris said she did not and does not support decriminalizing unauthorized border crossings into the United States.

“We have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired,” she told Fox News. “I am very clear — as is Tim Walz — that we must support and enforce federal law, and that’s what we will do.”

Harris also went after Trump for opposing a bipartisan border security proposal, saying the former president would rather “run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.”

“If a border security [bill] had actually been passed nine months ago, it would be nine months we would have had more border agents at the border, more support for the folks who are working around the clock trying to hold it all together to ensure that no future harm would occur.”

Asked about her past support for using taxpayer funds for gender-affirming surgery for transgender inmates, including those who are undocumented, Harris said she would follow the law.

After mentioning that Trump and Harris are neck and neck in the polls, the host asked Harris whether she thinks the 50% of Americans siding with Trump are “misguided” or “stupid.”

“I would never say that about the American people,” Harris replied. “In fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies, he’s the one who tends to demean and belittle and diminish the American people. He’s the one who talks about an ‘enemy within’.”