Trump spox battles CNN host over Harris as the 'change' candidate: She's in White House 'right now'

Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt got into another fiery clash with a CNN host on Thursday ahead of the network's interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Leavitt battled CNN anchor John Berman over whether voters should see Harris as the "change" candidate.

A new Fox News poll of four battleground states in the Sun Belt showed that voters put Harris on par with former President Trump for "bringing needed change" (49% Harris, 48% Trump), despite Harris being the incumbent vice president.

"How do you explain now, that Vice President Harris is seen as perhaps the candidate of change?" Berman asked, referencing the poll, at the start of the interview.

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"It is our goal over the next several weeks ahead of Election Day to ensure that voters understand Kamala Harris is not the candidate of change, nor is she the candidate of the future," the Trump 2024 national press secretary responded. "Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States right now. And she is wholly responsible for the failures over the past four years."

Leavitt said that Harris had promoted President Biden's economic strategy, "which has ushered the worst inflation crisis in a generation" and had overseen Biden's open border policy as "border czar."

"Harris does not deserve a promotion. She deserves a demotion," she continued.

The CNN host denied that Harris was the border czar before again floating the idea that voters see Harris as the candidate of "change."

"Does it tell you that maybe they are beginning to see a Republican nominee who’s 78-years-old and been running for president for nine