JUST IN: New Excerpt Exposes Kamala Harris’ Absurd Demands On The Campaign Trail

By most accounts, Kamala Harris’s first interview was a disaster.

Rushed into position, the new and sudden nominee of the Democratic Party appeared unsure of herself, but even worse — small — as she watched it play out before a national audience eager to see whether she could fill the shoes of former President Joe Biden.

The problem, Harris aides determined, was the chair, not the fact that she shrunk away from questions while letting running mate Tim Walz join her on-screen and do most of the talking. From there on out, anyone seeking to interview her would require a strict set of specifications about each chair’s legs, arms, and height.

“Leg height no less than 15 inches; floor to top of seat height no less than 18.9 inches; arms on chairs may not be very high, arms must fall at a natural height; chairs must be firm,” read a copy of the staging requirement Harris aides passed to reporters which was obtained by The Hill.

It was one among a list of demands by the Harris campaign days after she launched her ill-fated bid to lead the party, heaping praise on the administration while distancing herself from its most unpopular policies. President Biden, still smarting from the humiliation of being pressured to drop out, repeated incessantly what he wanted to see from his vice president.

There should be “no daylight” between her proposals and his policies, he told aides, many of whom went on to surround and usurp Harris’s campaign apparatus in the following weeks.

On the day of her first debate against then-candidate Donald Trump, President Biden pinned Harris into the proverbial corner during a one-on-one meeting, reinforcing his desire to see her protect and advocate for his legacy now that he could no longer do so.

Instead, what the White House saw was shocking: haphazard, whack-a-mole answers by the vice president as she made improbable promises. She would appoint a Republican to her cabinet, Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash. Fracking would forever be permitted in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state, despite her multiple pledges during Democratic primaries to fight to enshrine the Green New Deal into law.

But it was Harris’s carefully scripted first interview that underscored the kid gloves with which her handlers were treating her. Letting Walz do most of the talking may have gotten her through the moment, but even allies admitted it left her looking like a shrinking violet, too keen to let others speak for her when Americans were asking whether she or Trump would be the bigger change agent they demanded.

More than a month of her 90-day campaign slipped by at the time she, Walz, and Bash conferred on TV. National reporters had sunk their teeth into the narrative that Democrats were eager to run out the clock with a closed-off campaign while mostly fear-mongering about the Trump “oligarchy” that would come to pass if voters didn’t elect their ticket.

Weeks after the election, Harris and Biden were rarely seen together as they and their spouses gathered belongings and prepared to leave their residences. The 82-year-old president had begun slipping not-so-veiled criticisms of his running mate into his final interviews.

His words “saddened” Harris, said aides who spoke with her in those final days.