Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sat down for separate interviews with 60 Minutes’ election special, which aired last night. Notably, Donald Trump and JD Vance were originally scheduled to give interviews too, but they pulled out last week. 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley read them for filth at the top of the show too.
Pelley: Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump agreed to be interviewed on 60 Minutes. Then, a week ago, Trump backed out. The Trump campaign offered shifting explanations. First, it complained that we would fact check the interview. We fact check every story. Later, Trump said he… pic.twitter.com/hWHJPfxuQ0
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 8, 2024
So, the 60 Minutes special went ahead and of course VP Harris made news. She was asked again about her gun ownership. VP Harris said, during the debate, that she and Tim Walz are both gun owners, and then Oprah asked her about it again during the Michigan town hall last month. Harris told Oprah: “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot.” Bill Whitaker asked her what kind of gun she has and whether she’s actually shot it:
Vice President Kamala Harris has a Glock. And she has taken it to the shooting range. In a wide-ranging interview that ran on Monday night during a “60 Minutes” election special on CBS News, Ms. Harris revealed more details about her firearm, which she had teased last month in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“I have a Glock, and I’ve had it for quite some time,” she told her “60 Minutes” interviewer, Bill Whitaker. “Look, Bill, my background is in law enforcement, so there you go.” When he asked if she had fired it, Ms. Harris laughed. “Of course I have,” she said. “At a shooting range. Yes, of course I have.”
This is why “Glockmala” is trending on social media, lmao. They’re going to turn her into Pam Grier in Foxy Brown by Election Day. The rest of the interview was fine – I mean, it is what it is, a staid interview with a network.
Q: What kind of gun do you own?
Vice President Harris: I have a Glock. And I've had it for quite some time. My background is in law enforcement
Q: Have you ever fired it?
Vice President Harris: Of course, at a shooting range pic.twitter.com/6IY2gs1kMT
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 8, 2024
This was so jarring. The man has said racist and inflammatory things and it’s for the woman of color to bridge the gap with people who can’t admit they want to vote for a racist? I see why she avoided these interviews. Reactionary garbage questions. https://t.co/m9QdRxQIXH
— Leslie Gray Streeter (@LeslieStreeter) October 8, 2024
Photo courtesy of 60 Minutes/YT.
Anybody here who thinks Whitaker would ask a male candidate if they had ever fired a gun that they owned?🙄
FYI, in today’s mail Day received information about REGISTERING to vote from US voters abroad—that is too late for me. Thankfully, I had already received my ballot and voted.
My Trump relatives complained in the past about early voting and absentee ballots—I’ve been told by my mom that most of them are voting or have voted early: Democrats please, please get your vote in ASAP!
Had she ever fired the gun was the dumbest question. Does he really think she expected to protect herself with a gun she had never fired?
It was a laughable question and she laughed at it. In a time of lies, grift, self-aggrandizement, and empty posturing, her real responses to these dumb questions are so refreshing to me.
Agreed, the rules for Kamala seem to be so different that it’s veering into NYTimes Pitchbot territory. Is anybody asking Trump the following question?
WHITAKER: So many people support Donald Trump, a man you have called a racist. How do you bridge that seemingly unbridgeable gap?
Trick question. The racist gap will continue, but sure let’s put in impossible goalposts for Kamala.
Pistol packing prosecutor. If that doesn’t break through to the dudes who think Trump is so tough (hint: he is not), then I don’t know what will. I mean, Trump is afraid of a 60 Minutes interview. He walked off in a huff in 2020.
Tim Miller at The Bulwark was critical of the question about Trump and his racism too. And he’s a former Republican! Not Kamala’s job to adjudicate the raw and violent rhetoric. She doesn’t need to explain that water is wet. Miller explained that she got the same sh**y kind of question in her veep interview for 60 Minutes in 2020 too. Yeah, these kinds of interviews are all designed to trip up the candidate, not shed light.
The MAGAt-leaning public should be reminded constantly that tRump can’t have guns, because he’s a convicted felon.
And of course any *responsible* gun owner would schedule regular practice sessions at a shooting range.
The problem: most MAGAts aren’t *responsible* gun owners.
I just know that a man wouldn’t be asked “Have you fired it?” Such misogynist from network to network.
I love her “you’re all fucking idiots” face. Cannot wait until she is POTUS!
Top photo is her “Bless your heart” face. 😉
Kamala gives the best faces. I hate guns, but I get that it is part of the US history. So, Kamala’s honesty only proved that maga’s being fed more lies.
I swear. These questions.
I wish she would stop talking about her gun.
She keeps getting asked about it! She moved on quickly, but I think it helps her with people in the middle who think Democrats are wusses. Also, it helps because, as a woman, she has a bigger challenge projecting strength. This country is deeply, profoundly misogynistic about leadership.
She’s answering questions clearly and honestly, not dodging them or running away like a certain orange sewage barge.
She’s mentioned it twice, and both times it was in response to a question or comment by the interviewer. It’s not like she keeps bringing it up.
As someone who has never held a gun and has pro gun control stickers on her car, I have no problem with VP Harris owning a pistol. Why should she shy away from that? She bought it for self defense, it’s legal and licensed I am sure, and she practiced how to use it, which is the responsible thing to do.
I’d have a gun if I were her. Between her old jobs, current one, and hopefully future one, and being who she is, I’d want one for sure.
So far I don’t have a life where I *need* a gun because people are targeting me, but if I ever do….
It’s incredibly common for prosecutors to carry, their work puts them at risk. Knowing Kamala, she’s probably well trained.
This!!!
Right? I’d be more surprised if she didn’t own one. And of course she’s got it properly registered and trained how to use it.
I am not a gun person, but acknowledge we have the right to own them in the US. But we should have much, much stricter regulation, common sense, and severe consequences for those who don’t follow the rules.
Truthiness, IKR? I don’t understand why all of the MEN are so surprised by this. I would be more surprised to discover that a prosecutor didn’t have a gun.
VOTE EARLY! It makes elections workers lives slightly easier.
Like she said. She’s answered that question before and the bulk of her career was in law enforcement. She was a prosecutor and I’m sure had her life under threat many times.
And being a responsible gun owner who actually takes the time to learn how to use it and use it effectively and safely, she has went to the gun range regularly and fired it.
I’ll bet the felon still has guns that he’s not legally allowed to have.
I can’t imagine Mango Mussolini having a gun for anything but show. Even if he does, I’m sure his family and secret service have made sure he doesn’t actually have direct access to any loaded weapons (or ammo for unloaded ones) because they all know he is not all there mentally so he would be a danger to everyone around him if he did
She should’ve pulled a Maya Rudolph: “Close your ears New York and California.” That would have been friggin’ hilarious. But the gun issue has long since veered into the absurd. Ban assault rifles and do background checks. That is not the same thing as no one should own any gun ever. But that’s the fictional cultural divide that wingnuts love to spin.
This is how I feel. Some people have a problem with her owning a gun at all, never mind her admitting to it. That’s a pretty extreme position. As a public prosecutor who was targeting dangerous people, it made sense for her to have one in case (God forbid) she needed to defend herself.
There is a huge difference between a grown woman owning one pistol and knowing how to use it and a family with children owning an arsenal of assault rifles that they pose with for Christmas cards.
Common sense is needed here.
Common sense and the NRA are not exactly a love match.