Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 106 days because the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president with out holding an official press convention.
Trump has held a minimum of six information conferences the place he took questions from the media because the starting of August. Harris has carried out a number of temporary, casual press gaggles this week with the media whereas on the marketing campaign path, together with on Monday when she criticized the tone and rhetoric at Trump’s rally in New York Metropolis over the weekend. On Saturday, she appeared on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” as herself within the present’s chilly open.
She gave a speech on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., outlining her path ahead for the USA and the way she differs from what she calls Trump’s radical, darkish imaginative and prescient.
Harris additionally ended her streak of not showing on Fox Information final month, sitting for an interview in Pennsylvania with chief political anchor Bret Baier. She additionally did a CNN city corridor and interviews in latest days with NBC Information, Telemundo and CBS, in addition to a number of podcasts and native information stations in latest weeks.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump debate on the Nationwide Structure Heart in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 2024. (Getty Pictures)
Harris stepped up her interviews in October, together with doing radio hits, pleasant appearances with “The View,” Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern and different media appearances.
However as for when she’ll truly do a proper press convention as a candidate, that will not be occurring with the election two days away.
Conservative Radio Libre host Jorge Bonilla feels Harris ought to do a press convention however stated it’s nearly “irrelevant” as a result of she continues to get a go.
“She is highly unlikely to do a press conference because the media have enabled and encouraged her ‘plexiglass basement’ strategy, wherein she preserves the illusion of being out there while remaining wholly inaccessible to the press and therefore unaccountable,” Bonilla advised Fox Information Digital.
Trump has skipped a number of potential interviews in latest weeks, however he confirmed up on the annual Al Smith dinner that has traditionally featured the presidential candidates doing lighthearted roasts. Harris determined to not attend, sending a video message as a substitute.
Vice President Kamala Harris prevented questions on President Biden’s psychological decline throughout her Fox Information interview. (Fox Information Channel)
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Harris additionally did an interview final month on “60 Minutes” that has generated controversy as a result of present’s modifying decisions with a solution she gave to a query about Israel. In a preview of the interview on Oct. 6, CBS aired one portion of her reply however appeared to air a totally totally different a part of it in the course of the precise particular on Oct. 7.
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Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
