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Someone might need to tell CNN host Jake Tapper that President-elect Biden had already nominated a press secretary. Because given his quips about Biden’s protective boot and playful questions about what Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would call her husband once in office, Tapper’s Thursday interview came off as beyond softball. And most of the time he was probing them from the left.
Tapper kicked off his hard-hitting questioning with this zinger about the boot Biden needed to wear after breaking his foot playing with his dog:
JAKE TAPPER: Before we get started, you're not wearing your big boot anymore but you have your --
JOE BIDEN: Well, I wear the big boot most of the time, but when coming out here it's just kind of clumsy, so they gave me this little thing to work.
TAPPER: How is your foot and what happened?
A better question Tapper could have asked would’ve been about why Biden refused to allow the press pool to see him exit the hospital. Instead, the only video of his release came from someone watching from a distance.
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