Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 99 days because the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president with out holding an official press convention.
Trump has held six information conferences the place he took questions from the media because the starting of August. Harris has carried out a pair of transient, casual press gaggles this week with the media whereas on the marketing campaign path.
Harris additionally ended her streak of not showing on Fox Information earlier this month, sitting for an interview in Pennsylvania with chief political anchor Bret Baier. She additionally did a CNN city corridor on Wednesday evening and interviews this week with NBC Information and Telemundo.
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Harris has stepped up her interviews in latest weeks, 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 really do a proper press convention as a candidate, that day could by no means come, at the very least whereas she’s nonetheless a candidate.
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 move.
“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 instructed 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 an alternative.
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Harris additionally did an interview this month on “60 Minutes” that has generated controversy as a result of present’s enhancing 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 very totally different a part of it through the precise particular on Oct. 7.
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Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.