Journalist Mark Halperin gave a scathing review of Vice President Kamala Harris’ first interview since she became the Democratic presidential nominee, calling it a “disaster for journalism.”

Halperin called the long-awaited interview a failure, saying Harris only did well because CNN’s Dana Bash was too soft on her.

“Kamala Harris did well enough, but she did well enough in large part because the questions weren’t even close to good enough. The questions were soft. The follow-up questions were almost nonexistent or soft. They covered topics that shouldn’t have been covered. There was way too much nonsense,” Halperin said Friday during a livestream on his media platform 2WAY.

“The bumpers and the teasers were just advertising for the campaign,” he added.

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Vice President Kamala Harris raised eyebrows when she told CNN’s Dana Bash that her “values ​​haven’t changed” despite her policy positions. (Screenshot/CNN)

The vice president sat down with CNN’s Bash on Thursday after going nearly 40 days without a formal interview since rising to the top of the Democratic ticket. Harris defended her role in the Biden administration, saying her “values ​​haven’t changed” when asked why she abandoned many of the left-wing policies she embraced during her ill-fated bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination.

Halperin said Harris came across well, but reiterated that the entire interview was a missed opportunity to press the nominee on issues that matter to voters.

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“If people say she was good enough, she was. The word salad was minimal. Her tone was good. She was confident, because she was being interviewed by someone she was friends with,” he noted.

“I think it was a non-event. I don’t know how many more interviews she’s going to do, but I think it was a disaster for journalism. And I think it was super unfortunate that (it) was her first and maybe only real interview before the debate and maybe the foreseeable future, because now I think she has permission to do Jen Psaki and the West Wing cast and things like that,” he continued, referring to the MSNBC host.

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“I think it’s a great shame because there’s virtually nothing that comes out of it that tells the American people what kind of president she would be,” the journalist lamented.

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Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Savannah, Georgia on Thursday, August 29. (AP/Stephen B. Morton)

Halperin wasn’t the only one to criticize the network for being too lenient with Harris on Friday.

Rep. Dan Meuser, Republican of Pennsylvania, told CNN on Friday that Harris had “avoided a failure” in her first interview but said Bash had failed to hold her accountable with follow-up questions.

However, Bash was praised by left-wing media The New York Times and Poynter for having a “good night.”

“It turned out to be a good night for everyone involved — Bash, Harris and Walz. Let’s put it this way: Everyone came through unscathed. Bash cannot, pardon the pun, be bashed for being soft or dishonest. Harris was smooth and strong…. All in all, it was a respectable night, starting with Bash, who handled the big job professionally and admirably,” Poynter’s Tom Jones wrote in an op-ed for Poynter.

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“Still, the veteran journalist had a good night,” The New York Times also praised. “During one of the most high-profile interviews of her career, she ticked off the biggest questions hanging over Ms. Harris’s young candidacy, including what specific plans she would pursue and why she had not implemented some of her proposals while she was vice president.”