CNN’s Mattingly: Kamala Can Now Say What She Feels, What She Thinks, and People Would Appreciate that ‘Authenticity’

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MATTINGLY: “She's a different person off camera than you see in the interviews, which is fine. It's tough to be on camera sometimes. It's tough when there's 100 different people in your ear telling you how you're supposed to say something and why you're supposed to say something. But it was particularly tough in this campaign, where she was constantly pulled from 50 different directions. And throughout, had President Biden standing over her or beside her saying, 'Hey, kid, don't -- don't -- remember our legacy, right? Like, don't -- don't be disloyal to me.' And I think that the opportunity that this moment has for her or creates for her is to just let it rip, right? Like, she doesn't need to be concerned about looking disloyal or about going against the administration's -- the last administration's agenda. She can say what she feels, what she thinks, and what she thought happened during that race, which I think people would appreciate that. Authenticity obviously wins in this moment. And I think there'd be a lot of appreciation for it.”