Tom Cotton Claims Harris Has Avoided The Media, Ignoring Trump’s Own Debate Dodge

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said Sunday support for Vice President Kamala Harris would plummet as soon as voters “get a better look at her,” claiming the Democratic nominee had so far failed to answer questions about her “radical positions.”

Cotton, a strong backer of former President Donald Trump, was a top contender to be his vice presidential pick before he was passed over for Ohio Sen. JD Vance. During an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, the senator issued a slate of false claims about Harris’ policy positions before alleging she hadn’t answered “one single question” from the media since President Joe Biden ended his own reelection bid.

“What we all agree on is what a disaster Kamala Harris would be as president,” Cotton told host Ed O’Keefe. “She is a dangerous San Francisco liberal, who wants to do things like take your health insurance away on the job and give it to illegal aliens, because she wants to decriminalize illegal immigration into this country.”

Those claims are either exaggerated or patently false. Harris has pushed for universal background checks and bans on assault weapons, and she supports climate policies to transition the nation away from fossil fuels. And Cotton’s remarks about migration echo Republican dogwhistles trying to link her limited role on border security to claims she was the Biden administration’s “border czar.”

The senator also refused to disavow Trump’s attacks on Harris’ racial identity at a conference for Black journalists, saying he didn’t question if she were Black herself.

“He wasn’t saying that what matters is how she identifies as her race,” Cotton claimed, despite Trump saying exactly that. “He explicitly said he didn’t care. One was fine. The other was fine. Both