Body language experts say CNN interview suggests Harris was 'uncomfortable,' 'hollow,' 'insincere'

Body language experts found that during Vice President Kamala Harris’ first media interview since announcing her candidacy for president this summer, she was "uncomfortable," "hollow," and not confident in her answers.

Harris and Walz sat down for a joint interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Thursday where the Democratic presidential nominee discussed her first priorities for day one in office if she's elected to the White House in November, her changing positions on policy issues, and her running mate’s military service record. Upon analyzing the interview, body language experts found that Harris was struggling to answer questions and sometimes appeared to be dishonest in her responses.

Greg Hartley, a former interrogator in the U.S. Army, told Just the News on Friday that Harris was “overprepared for sure,” as anyone would be “for this role.”

“This is an abrupt change,” Hartley said, noting that her “first comments are gonna be scrutinized by everyone.”

During the interview, Bash mentioned former President Donald Trump’s suggestion that she “happened to turn Black.” Harris answered, “Same old, tired playbook. Next question, please.”

Hartley explained that “when she avoided the Trump question,” her body language changed as she broke eye contact and wanted “to say something” but was likely prepped to avoid responding to Trump on his level.

He added that when people look “down and right,” it’s an “emotional access cue,” whereas looking “down and to left is internal voice,” when they are trying to figure out “how to navigate what to say here.”

Thus, when Harris looked down and right after the Trump question, it was about thinking what not to say, while looking down and left was how to navigate language, Hartley said.

She was “prepped a lot to not engage,” he added, and “run on not being Trump,” because otherwise, she had “no content.”

“She’s hollow,” Hartley said.

“If a person says one thing on Tuesday, another on Wednesday, then mentions their moral compass but doesn’t explain it or why they changed, you should question their sincerity,” he noted.

Hartley also discussed how both Harris and Walz would “chaff and redirect,” where they would “spout enough words about something not related to the topic to get to a line of topic to veer away” from the question.

He added that Walz was “uncomfortable” about how his military record has come out.

Hartley is an Army veteran and said that he is “not a fan of anyone” targeting a veteran’s service, while also noting that Walz was “deceptive about his rank when he left” the National Guard.

He said that Walz was at the interview to put Harris at ease and to “show solidarity.”

Hartley explained that Harris is “predictable when she’s uncomfortable,” as she smiles, laughs, nods, and speaks in a “word salad.” She has “no content at all,” he added.

Harris is “not good at” chaff and redirect, Hartley said, adding that she goes into “fight or flight” when she's uncomfortable and cackles.

Instead of playing into the politics of it, he said that people should ask themselves, “If this is the person you’re leaving your children with, how would you feel? Would you trust that they know what they're doing?”

Body language expert Susan Constantine told Fox News on Friday that Harris didn’t look confident during the interview.

"When I look at her overall demeanor, she does not carry the confidence or the presidential appearance in her demeanor to command in her position," Constantine said. "So for everything that I saw last night, she definitely needs to make some tweaks into her body language to appear more confident." 

"The fact that she's looking down a lot removes a lot of the fluidity and the authenticity," she added. 

"When she struggles, you start to see a lot of the head bobbling. You know, the head bobbling is ‘what part of the file in my subconscious am I going to pull out? Which ones are my answers?’" Constantine noted. "She couldn't come up with a crystal clear answer, and that's why she tends to bobble."

"When you bobble and waffle like that," she continued, "that's another signal that she's not really... prepared. She doesn't really have confidence in her own answers."

Scott Rouse, another body language expert, told Newsmax on Thursday that Harris had a “bobblehead” motion as she talked.

He explained that this “indicated that she had inner dialogue going on. We see tons of that with both of them, with Kamala and Walz. We see that inner dialogue, just thinking about what they're gonna say next.”

Rouse added that this conversation Harris had with Bash “is one of the ones where she's sort of on the fly, making this up as she goes.”

He also said that when Harris discussed what she thought when she found out that President Joe Biden was dropping out of the race, “We're hearing what we call ‘fading facts.’ As she talks, she gets quieter and quieter; she talks about how she was concerned with him. And quite often when someone's being deceptive, they’ll get quieter as they get to their answer... we hear that here big time. And we don't see any of the cues that let us know she's actually being sad, this is a put-on sad face.”

Meanwhile, Judi James, a communication and body language analyst, told The Daily Mail on Friday that Harris answered questions with a “tone of curt decisiveness,” as she embraced a “new look of direct answers and power poses.”

However, when Harris was asked about her position changing on key issues, she risked being “knocked-off balance,” James explained. “She reels back in her seat and her eyes drop down in a cut-off as though unaware that relevant point would be raised,” she added.

James said that Harris’ reaction to Trump appears she’s acting “as though he were still in office and she the opposition. When asked what she would do on her first day in the White House her body language seems to suggest she has not set foot in the place so far,” she explained.