Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 50 days because the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president with out holding an official press convention.
Underneath strain to sit down down for a substantive interview after weeks of stonewalling, Harris lastly ended her interview drought final month when she was joined by operating mate Tim Walz for a pre-taped piece with CNN’s Dana Bash final Thursday in Georgia that was a far cry from a standard press convention.
“She should absolutely hold regular press conferences. Americans have the right and need to know what her policy stances are,” conservative influencer Tim Younger advised Fox Information Digital.
“Anyone who wants to lead the free world should be able to handle questions from the press,” Younger continued. “If Kamala can’t handle real questions from the press, she absolutely can’t handle negotiations with foreign leaders.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris in her first sit-down interview with the media since rising to the highest of the Democratic ticket. (CNN)
Throughout the CNN interview, Harris defended a few of her famous coverage flip-flops on points like fracking and immigration, saying her “values” hadn’t modified. She was additionally pressed on whether or not she had regrets about defending President Biden’s psychological acuity after his debate, given he dropped out of the race lower than a month later. She additionally stated she needed to “turn the page on the last decade of what I believe has been contrary to where the spirit of our country really lies.”
Bash identified Harris had been vp for three-and-a-half of these years, however Harris countered she meant shifting on from this “era,” seemingly referring to the political rise of Donald Trump that started in 2015.
Harris additionally sat for 2 taped radio interviews final week, certainly one of which has but to air.
As to when she’ll really do a proper press convention, that day might by no means come, at the least whereas she’s nonetheless a candidate.
“You will not see one press conference from her in the next 75 days until Election Day,” Fox Information contributor Joe Concha predicted earlier final month.
Conservative Radio Libre host Jorge Bonilla feels Harris ought to do a press convention however stated it’s virtually “irrelevant” as a result of she continues to get a go.
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“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.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz in CNN interview.
NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck feels the vp “obviously owes it to the American people to hold free-wheeling press conferences where reporters can, unlike what happened [Thursday] with CNN’s Dana Bash, ask follow-up questions.”
“For every softball from, say, ABC or NPR, you’ll hope a liberal journalist will show some courage to do the right thing,” Houck advised Fox Information Digital.
“The interview itself had a positive atmosphere. From the get-go in the hype video-like opening by Bash, CNN put forward a perception that this was an event, not a grinding fact-finding mission,” Houck continued. “She missed a litany of topics with Harris. Allowing death row inmates to vote, closing ICE, defunding the police, ending private insurance, girl’s sports, the filibuster, Jussie Smollett, the Minneapolis bail fund, systemic racism… those were just a few of the areas she could have touched on.”
Former President Trump has sought to focus on the distinction in media availability between the 2, sitting for a number of prolonged interviews in latest weeks and in addition holding a pair of press conferences final month.
Harris obtained combined evaluations for her exhibiting with Bash, the place she took nearly all of the questions however nonetheless had Walz there for assist.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris talks as she visits SandFly Bar-B-Q in Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)
“My fear is, because Bash wasn’t like, say, CBS’s Steve Kroft or NPR’s Steve Inskeep salivating at the sight of Barack Obama, the liberal media will claim this and the upcoming ABC debate are sufficient interview time for the campaign,” Houck stated.
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Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
