WATCH: CNN Bashes Vice President Kamala Harris For Awful Answers On How She'd Fix The Economy - 'There Isn't A Plan'

During a CNN panel on Wednesday, CNN host Dana Bash asked Semafor politics reporter Dave Weigel his thoughts on Vice President Kamala Harris' lackluster answers on how she would fix the economy as president. Bash, who said Harris' canned answers were so frequent you could start a drinking game, pointed out how frequently the vice president said "small businesses."

"When you listen to Kamala Harris, you could almost start a drinking game," Bash said before playing a clip of one of Harris' economic answers during an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists. As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, the vice president seemed to acknowledge the problem of rising grocery prices but refused to outline her policy solution to get the issue under control.

"Is the price of groceries still too high? Yes. Do we have more work to do? Yes," Harris said. "I will tell you that I offer a new generation of leadership for our country that is particularly about turning the page on an era that sadly has shown us attempts by some to insight fear and create division in our country and to do the work that is about bringing some level of optimism, and dare I say ambition about what I know is possible in this country. And so my plan for the economy includes what I imagine and believe and call an opportunity economy. What we can do to grow an opportunity economy where all people have access to resources to compete to apply their incredible work ethic, their ambition, their aspirations, and their dreams and actually not just get by but get ahead."

In response to those kinds of answers, Semafor's Dave Weigel told the CNN host that Harris isn't able to provide an actual answer on how to get grocery prices down, and so opts to give a broad response that allows her to avoid giving specifics.

"She says that, and she also talks about being a middle-class kid. That's also at the front of her answers. If you look at the interviews they've been doing with local media, they've opened up a bit more since the debate; the first question is often, 'What are you going to do to lower prices?' Which is a very hard question for an incumbent party to answer, and it has implications that are very Trumpian," Weigel explained. "Trump says he's going to do mass deportation, that will decrease demand. Trump says he'll explore more energy, which will decrease energy costs. Democrats can point to the fact that inflation was actually bad two years ago, but it's not now. What people want to hear is how do you make the prices go down."

"So everything she says is something realistic that can survive a fact-check that answers a very hard question. There isn't a plan to say that we are going to lower the cost of your grocery bill to what it was in 2019," he stated. "There was a pandemic, there was money supply inflation. You can't hit the button that makes that go away. But Trump has an answer that gets him through these questions. Harris, with a different set of incentives and a different relationship to something she can back up in a policy paper, she doesn't have an answer."

WATCH:

DANA BASH: "When you listen to Kamala Harris, you could almost start a drinking game," every time she repeats her tired talking points.

WEIGEL: There isn't a plan to lower your grocery bill to what it was in 2019 and Harris doesn't have an answer. pic.twitter.com/LHoLk2IFDS

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