COUNTDOWN: Four days left for Kamala to schedule interview | Fox News
By: Alec Schemmel (Fox News)
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CNN panel clashes over Harris avoiding the press, host says 'softball interview' won't solve the issue
A CNN panel clashed on Tuesday over Vice President Harris' continued press avoidance as host Kasie Hunt said a "softball interview" wouldn't help the vice president.
The clock is ticking for Vice President Kamala Harris to schedule the formal interview she and her team promised would happen before the end of the month.
After formally receiving the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, Harris told reporters on the tarmac in Detroit earlier this month that she wanted to schedule her first formal interview as the party's nominee before the end of August. Meanwhile, the exact date, time, place and media outlet that will be conducting the interview has remained a mystery, even as Harris' self-imposed deadline quickly approaches.
With only four days left this month, questions about the interview have been prevalent inside the beltway. Some of those questions include who on the Harris campaign is making the final interview decision, what kind of message Harris will try to send and who will be the figurehead posing the questions to her
Harris campaign staffers have reportedly been asking journalists who they think the vice president should talk to, according to Politico. The outlet indicated CBS' Norah O'Donnell and NBC's Lester Holt were among the frontrunners. There has also reportedly been internal disagreements over how Harris should approach the interview.
With less than a week remaining for Harris to get something on the calendar, some journalists have begun weighing in on the process.
"I understood why Kamala Harris wasn't doing interviews before - she was getting her policy proposals hammered out behind the scenes before the convention. But now there are no more excuses. She needs to do interviews, a lot of them. We're picking a president here. It's important," said political commentator Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, which describes itself as "America's largest online progressive news network."
"The fact that there is so much internal turmoil over doing A SINGLE INTERVIEW is itself deeply revealing," conservative columnist Marc Thiessen wrote Tuesday morning on X, formerly Twitter. "This is not a 'big decision.' It exposes their lack of confidence in her and is making something that should be routine into a high stakes event."
ON DODGING THE MEDIA, KAMALA HARRIS 'OWES RESPONSES' TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, SAYS CAMPAIGN ADVISOR
While the pressure on Harris to do an interview is getting greater by the day, some of her supporters have urged her to continue dodging the media. Rick Wilson, former GOP strategist and co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, said last week that Harris "has no f---ing necessity to do interviews right now."
The same opinion was echoed by legendary Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino, who told talk show host Bill Maher last Sunday that "sometimes it's just about f---ing winning."
"I'm going to vote for her f---ing anyway, no matter what she says in the stupid f---ing interview, so don't f--- s--- up," Tarantino added.
QUENTIN TARANTINO TELLS KAMALA HARRIS TO CONTINUE DODGING INTERVIEWS UNTIL ELECTION: 'DON'T F--- S--- UP'
Harris has been utilizing a lighter than normal schedule since the Democratic National Convention concluded last week, according to Politico, which reported Harris has been using the time to prepare for her upcoming Sept. 10 debate and map out her future media strategy.
Fox News Digital reached out to both the Harris and Trump campaigns for comment. The Harris campaign did not provide a response, but the Trump campaign directed Fox News Digital to a Tuesday press release it put out, which called out Harris for going 37 days without an interview.
"Kamala is dodging the press for a reason," the press release stated. "She doesn't want to talk about her radical agenda."
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It looks like they have agreed to agree.
Trump Just Shared a Major Update Regarding a Debate With Kamala Harris (townhall.com)
Doing an interview should be about the most rountine thing a Presidential candidate does. I guess they are lowering expectations as to her performance and as to how she'll govern. "She answered a question eight months ago, don't expect another one for another eight".
But the Democrats are making it seem like it's some herculean task of momentous significance.This should be like crossing the street for an adult.
Actually it seems that some people here on NT are making it see like like its some herculean task. (I haven't heard her complaning about it all the complaining about the whole debate thing is coming from people right here on NT!)
Of course not, because she doesn't talk to the media.
plaining about the whole debate thing is coming from people right here on NT!)
Well, you seem to be confused about the whole debate vs interview thing. Either way, you should probably have heard about those issues wherever you get your news. If not, branch out.
And here's her own media reporting on how much the Harris campaign is obsessing over a single interview, which includes the note that they can't even let Walz interview because they don't think he knows what she stands for.
Making Harris sound even remotely intelligent is that herculean task. Look how long it's taken them to do just one interview.
Someone entrusted to make world-shaping decisions at 3am should have mastered the language enough to sit and chat with reporters. Such a forum's not even as aggressive as a debate. She's been privy to the world's most intimate issues for four years. So, what's hiding?
She has agreed to the debate-- at first it was Trump who was avoiding uit. But now he's agreed.
Yes, there will be a debate Sept 10th- which still doesn't meet her end of month timeline for an interview.
A debate is not interview.
lol, she did it! She agreed to a JOINT interview with Tim Walz on CNN. The woman who wants to be trusted with nukes can’t be trusted to a do a friendly interview without a man to hold her hand and supervise.
How embarrassing.
The campaign evidently wants Harris and Walz on the same page.
I'm highly skeptical of what is going on behind the scenes.
She has been in office for about 1,400 days and has had a long record of what she stands for. Her campaign has tweeted that she has flipflopped on many of those issues. Dana Bash must find out why she moved from those firmly held positions.
She is notoriously bad with follow up questions.
That is a lot to trust Bash with.
That is a lot to trust Bash with.
The questions will be along the lines of
“Trump sure is a threat to democracy, right?”
”how are you so joyful?”
It’s why she and cnn were chosen. They probably have to submit even those types of questions in advance as well.
And yet so many here accuse her of hiding her record.
A bit inconsistant, eh?
Hypocritical when she, her campaign, and the leftist media have gone to great lengths to hide/ignore those well know views.
Why aren't the media (outside of Fox) calling the Hyena out for flip flopping?
The interview has now been arranged.
V ice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be sitting down with CNN for the first joint interview after weeks of avoiding the press.
The Democratic ticket will join CNN's Dana Bash for what's being called an "extensive interview" as they campaign in the battleground state of Georgia.
The interview will air on Thursday night at 9 p.m. ET in a primetime special.
Kamala Harris grants first interview to CNN after weeks of avoiding press, to be joined by Tim Walz (msn.com)
Are you sure? People here are saying she won't debate because she's afraid of it.