Instead of experiencing Donald Trump’s Lesley Stahl treatment on 60 Minutes, Harris received the assist from the left-wing program of a selectively edited interview that cleaned up her jumblespeak. Stephen Colbert drank a Miller Lite with her on The Late Show. Howard Stern, in the first five minutes of his interview, asked the woman who could be president: “Do you nap at all?,” “Did you ever meet Prince in real life?,” and “I don’t want you being made fun of — there’s too much at stake.… How did you react to the Saturday Night Live bit?”

So, when Bret Baier began his line of questioning on Fox News with, “How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?,” Harris appeared shellshocked and how-dare-you aghast. Ditto for when he asked her when she realized the president had slipped cognitively. At other points in the discussion, particularly when speaking about her opponent, the vice president exuded anger.

Why did he not ask about naps, hand her a beer from the ghetto end of the liquor store cooler, or punctuate her answers (as Oprah Winfrey did) with “amen to that”?