Harris’s interview: Democrats swoon while Republicans grimace

Liberals said the vice-president came across as competent if unexciting, while conservatives struggled for a line of attack

Democrats lauded it as the perfect pitch; Donald Trump dismissed it as boring", while fellow Republicans invoked derogatory terms like gobbledygook".

Between the two extremes, Kamala Harris appeared to have achieved what she wanted from Thursday's groundbreaking CNN interview, given along with her running mate, Tim Walz - her first since become the Democratic presidential nominee.