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But it was Harris' inability to provide clear answers on both domestic
and foreign policy, and trademark meandering responses throughout the
90-minute session that had even CNN's left-leaning panelists ripping her afterwards.
Veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod, who helped get Barack Obama elected and served as one of his top advisers, summed up Harris'
performance with the catchphrase of the night: 'Word salad city.'

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Veteran Dem strategist's damning three-word verdict on Kamala Harris' performance in critical CNN town hall
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Kamala Harris branded Donald Trump a 'fascist' and got flustered when confronted about whether the border wall was 'stupid' during a
high-stakes CNN town hall just 13 days from the election.

But it was Harris' inability to provide clear answers on both domestic
and foreign policy, and trademark meandering responses throughout the
90-minute session that had even CNN's left-leaning panelists ripping her afterwards.

Veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod, who helped get Barack Obama elected and served as one of his top advisers, summed up Harris'
performance with the catchphrase of the night: 'Word salad city.'

Harris stood before undecided voters in the swing district of Delaware
County, Pennsylvania as new polling showed Trump taking a slight edge
over the VP nationally.

But while she hoped to gain an edge with undecided voters in the
Keystone State via the town hall performance, the post-game critiques
told another story.

Van Jones, another prominent talking head on CNN who also worked in the
Obama administration, echoed Axelrod's key point.

Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Donald Trump a
'fascist' and dodged questions on the effectiveness of a border wall
during a high stakes CNN town hall Wednesday

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'The word salad stuff gets on my nerves,' he bluntly said on-air after
the town hall wrapped.

'I think some of the evasions are not necessary.'

And CNN's Dana Bash said of Harris afterward that 'if her goal was to
close the deal, they're not sure she did that.'

Anderson Cooper kicked off the event by first asking whether the
Democratic nominee agreed with Trump's former Chief of Staff John Kelly,
who this week reiterated his claim that the former president wished to
rule as a fascist.

'Yes, I do,' she answered. 'Yes, I do. And I also believe that the
people who know him best on this subject should be trusted.'

She was more evasive, however, when Cooper asked if she wanted to 'build
some wall,' as she showed support for a bipartisan immigration bill that included wall funding.

'I want to strengthen our border,' she replied instead.

An undecided male college student had kicked off the immigration
conversation by asking her about government benefits going to migrants.

Harris started answering the question by giving her usual spiel,
knocking Trump for derailing the bipartisan bill that would have
provided, in her words, a 'long-term' immigration fix.

Harris appeared flummoxed when asked whether the border wall was 'stupid'

Cooper pointed out that border wall funds were included in the bill -
and noted how Harris had previously called it 'stupid' and a 'medieval
vanity project.'

'Well let's talk about Donald Trump and that border wall. So remember
Donald Trump said Mexico would pay for it. Come on, they didn't,' she
said with a laugh.

'How much of that wall did he build? I think the last number I saw was
about 2 percent. And then when it came time for him to do a photo-op. Do
you know where he did it? In the part of the wall that President Obama
built.'

Cooper again pointed out that the compromise bill included border wall
funds.

'I'm not afraid of good ideas where they occur Anderson,' she answered.

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