13 Things We Learned From Harris’s Interview With Howard Stern

In a lengthy sit-down, the veteran radio host extracted an array of new details about Kamala Harris’s life.

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Vice President Kamala Harris held a series of interviews with media figures on Tuesday.

For over an hour, Vice President Kamala Harris and the radio host Howard Stern bantered on Tuesday about the state of the country, former President Donald J. Trump, Ms. Harris’s cereal and workout preferences, and her favorite musicians and racecar drivers.

It was the longest uninterrupted interview Ms. Harris has done since becoming the Democratic nominee, and while it did not delve much into what she would do as president, it was the most revelatory about her as a person.

Mr. Stern is not a journalist, and he said multiple times that he supported Ms. Harris for president, but he is a skilled inquisitor who managed to extract an array of fresh details about her life.

Here is a (perhaps incomplete) list of new things we learned about Ms. Harris.

She is angry about the new reporting on Trump, Putin and Covid testing.

Ms. Harris seemed apoplectic at the idea — reported in a new book by Bob Woodward — that when Mr. Trump was in office, he sent rare Covid test machines to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

“This guy who was president of the United States is sending them to Russia to a murderous dictator for his own personal use,” she said. “This person who wants to be president again who secretly is helping out an adversary when the American people are dying by the hundreds every day and in need of relief.”

She could not believe Trump’s behavior at their debate.

During their debate last month, Mr. Trump uncorked his false claim that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating their neighbors’ pets. Ms. Harris was just as stunned as everyone watching, she said.

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