TIME Journal proprietor Marc Benioff known as out Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday for denying a number of interview requests from the journal, contrasting her with President Biden and even former President Trump for her lack of transparency.
Benioff shared TIME’s function story on Harris final week by Charlotte Alter, who famous Harris turned down interview requests in her prolonged story about how she can be as president.
“Despite multiple requests, TIME has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris—unlike every other Presidential candidate,” Benioff wrote on X. “We believe in transparency and publish each interview in full. Why isn’t the Vice President engaging with the public on the same level?”
Benioff, who additionally owns Salshared hyperlinks to the total transcripts of interviews TIME did with Trump and Biden again within the spring. On the time, Biden was the presumptive nominee for the Democrats, earlier than he dropped out of the race in July amid intense stress from get together leaders.
Vice President Kamala Harris and TIME proprietor Marc Benioff. (Getty Photographs)
KAMALA HARRIS DECLINES TIME MAGAZINE INTERVIEW AS SHE CONTINUES TO AVOID THE PRESS
Whereas the piece was largely sympathetic to Harris, Alter did quote an unbiased voter, Rodrigo Lopez, who was skeptical of Harris’ left-wing lurch within the 2020 Democratic major and her open try to take the center in her 2024 run.
“Yet she has skirted the thorough accounting of her policy evolution that Lopez is seeking, in part by speaking infrequently to reporters,” Alter wrote. “When she does do interviews, she mostly favors local media, culture podcasts, or friendly talk shows. Harris declined repeated requests for an interview for this story.”
“In contrast,” Alter added, Trump and Biden sat down with TIME earlier this 12 months for prolonged conversations about their views and insurance policies.
TIME can be unlikely to be hostile to Harris. The liberal journal has received plaudits from different media analysts for its melodramatic, anti-Trump covers for years.
Additionally, Alter penned a glowing cowl story about Harris in August however did not get an interview for that one, both. She did quote a big selection of aides, advisers and supporters like Pete Buttigieg, CNN’s Bakari Sellers and gun management activist David Hogg.
“Even if Washington was taken by surprise, the energetic fighter of the past two weeks matches the Harris whom allies say they have known for years,” Alter wrote on the time.
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Harris has stepped up her media appearances in current weeks however, like Trump, has largely caught to extra sympathetic interview environments. On Tuesday, she spoke with supporters Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert and the co-hosts of “The View” in in the future. She additionally just lately taped an look with liberal commentator Roland Martin which was posted Monday morning.
In her piece for TIME final week, Alter portrayed Harris as “more practical than ideological” after interviewing present and former advisers and aides, in addition to coverage consultants.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion at East Carolina College, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Greenville, N.C. (AP Picture/David Yeazell) (AP Picture/David Yeazell)
“You can imagine the Harris presidency as an iOS upgrade of the current Administration: the operating system would stay the same, but with new features and better packaging. There are tonal differences between the two: Harris talks more—and more comfortably—about abortion rights than Biden ever did, speaks with more empathy about the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and has put housing and small business at the center of her plans for strengthening the middle class,” Alter wrote. “But for the most part, allies and critics agree there is little evident policy daylight between the Democratic nominee and the President she replaced atop the party’s ticket this summer.”
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Benioff and the Harris marketing campaign did not instantly reply to requests for remark from Fox Information Digital.
