Kamala’s scrapped ‘Subway Takes’ interview is fresh proof of her kid-glove media treatment

In one more telling lowlight of the 2024 campaign, even a TikTok star felt obliged to protect Kamala Harris from . . . Kamala Harris.

Kareem Rahma, host of the TikTok phenomenon “Subway Takes,” just told Forbes that his Summer 2024 interview with Harris got so “confusing and weird” that he agreed with her team to scrap the whole thing.

In advance, she reportedly said she’d talk about how she doesn’t like to take her shoes off on airplanes, but Rahma says she instead pivoted to a “really, really bad” take that “made no sense”: Bacon is a spice.

Whether that was actually her idea or the advice of overpaid consultants, the conversation went downhill fast as Harris couldn’t make any sense of why she thought that.

But everyone will have to imagine that particular word salad for themselves, as Rahma opted not to post the footage for fear he’d get blamed if Harris lost.

Don’t fault Rahma, a mostly nonpolitical entertainer, for sidestepping that likely torrent of liberal rage.

But file that anecdote along with “60 Minutes” editing of her interview with Bill Whitaker to make her sound more coherent (a costly deception).

And “View” co-host Sonny Hostin feeling “terrible” for asking Harris what she’d do differently from Joe Biden, yielding the self-torpedoing answer, “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”

Even Harris’ friends couldn’t make her look good; she’s such a compromised communicator that she couldn’t even pass the Subway Takes sniff test, though most of Rahma’s interviewees are amateurs — a mix of regular NYers and barely known, start-of-their career comedians and influencers.

It’s hard to fake authenticity, yet that’s what Harris felt she needed to do.

America dodged that bullet in November; going forward, the question is: Can the Democratic Party find any candidates who either can fake it, or (better) don’t need to?