Kamala Harris Gives Update on Interview Plans

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Aug 08, 2024 at 6:43 PM EDT


Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris has given an update on her interview plans amid a wave criticism from Republicans who claim that she is refusing to take questions from reporters.

Harris, who took her place atop the Democratic ticket after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her on July 21, told reporters following a campaign stop in Detroit on Thursday that she was hoping to take part in a major interview "before the end of the month."

"I've talked to my team, I want to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month," Harris said in response to a question about when she would "sit down for [her] first interview since becoming the nominee."

Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, are scheduled to headline the Democratic National Convention in Chicago from August 19 to August 23.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-gives-update-interview-plans-1936779

[Ramsey Barner]

1. Harris talks to the press regularly, off the record, on Air Force Two

so it's not like she's been incommunicado. It's good that she's giving a formal interview.
(Twitter cite to Andrew Feinberg, White House Correspondent for The Independent)

Link to tweet

[oldsoftie]

30. Off the record is just that; off the record.

Get ahead of it; start taking a few questions when you get off your plane. She's bee VP for 3+ yrs its not hard.

[Think. Again.]

2. The rightwing is upset about her scheduling plan?

Okay, then.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. They only care about if she'll talk to *them*

unless they move the goal posts and also insist that Democrats "aren't doing 'big rallies'" while their favorite GOP lunatic plays golf for 10 days.

[ificandream]

25. They want her to talk to Fox ... I hope she doesn't.

Fox isn't a legitimate news organization. It's a clown car.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. I'd leave Faux to Pete Buttigieg

who knows how to cut them down to size real quick!

[BigDemVoter]

29. EXACTLY. . . .

[Brainfodder]

5. No, Trump in his rally speech calls her out, being dumb and unable to handle pressers & Interviews

Projection same as every other blabble from Pompous Pilot!

Sept 18th tick tock!

[onetexan]

6. That was no press conference, it was an old decrepid Conman spewing lies with nothing substantive to say

And as usual the damn media fell for it. Of course he did it so he can control the narrative by denigrating Kamala. We know that shit won't work now given his increasing incoherence & lunacy. As Dubya said, that was some wierd shit. Never thought i'd quote dubya but in this case it's Apt! 🤣

[Brainfodder]

8. Yup, in name only, another grift technique abused by Pompous Pilot, Orator of the Void!

[oldsoftie]

31. Wonder if thats why he always wants everything BIG; ratings, crowds, etc.

Overcompensating?

[NNadir]

4. One of the dumb shit reporters commenting on Trump's "Press Conference" yesterday, carried on about how Kamala hasn't...

...had a press conference, as if Trump is wonderful for standing in front of reporters, telling obvious lies, showing he can't count, think or tell the truth even obliquely.

The reporter obviously carried the unprincipled felonious moron's message forward because, well, the reporter is perhaps not a felon, but he is an unprincipled moron.

Kamala has spent a career in the public arena, and I'm sure the press will have its chance to throw questions marking the felon's talking points, and will criticize the coherent answers in exactly the way they ignore Trump's obvious lies.

[azureblue]

18. and she should

turn it back on them-like : why aren't you asking Trump these questions, in the interviews you have already had with him?
Don't just make it a general response - pick one reporter to direct the question to, and stay one him / her until she gets a quotable response. Then she should read off some of the questions they have asked trump, and she should respond to those questions.

Time to take the press to task.

[lark]

7. She should do it a week after the convention - keep the momentum going and do this at a time of strength!

I so hope this happens!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. The "week after the convention" IS the "end of the month"

[SheLiberal]

10. She has been busy

She is still the Vice President while running a campaign and picking a running mate she will have a press conference when she wants.

[FemDemERA]

11. Lawrence O'Donnell should be the interviewer

After last night’s show, hoping his people are contacting hers or vice-versa.

[NYC Liberal]

12. Right-wingers are constantly attacking the media.

Now, suddenly, they’re upset that she hasn’t talked to them at length in a few weeks?

[NNadir]

13. Maybe in the old days. The media however IS right wing. It accounts for why Trump is not rotting in prison now...

...but is again, after the disaster of his "administration" - if that's what we wish to call an exercise is graft - being taken seriously for the office of Presidency again.

[azureblue]

19. because they know they are losing

And their tactic is to then work the media.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. "Reporters" are taking orders from a "wave" of Republicans. Good that they admit it.

[Carlitos Brigante]

15. She can do it when she feels good and ready. "The press" can eat a bag of assholes. Go hound

that FL man lunatic and finally put him under scrutiny for once.

[Owens]

16. After what the press did to Biden...

After what the press did to Biden and fawning over Trump yesterday, she should be cautious and exclude Fox fake reporters from the press gaggle.

[CaptainTruth]

17. "refusing to take questions"

Wrong focus, media.
It's not about taking questions, it's about answering questions.

Trump takes questions but does he answer them? No he doesn't. He says a bunch of words but they're not answers.

If you were taking a test in school & you answered essay questions the way Trump answers questions you'd fail the test.

[onetexan]

20. Kamala should be driving her own narrative, not let the media or anybody else pressure her with their demands.

She should only give interviews when she wants and on her own terms.

[JohnSJ]

21. F**K THEM. Them being the press. She has only been two weeks in this race.

The press is doing the same thing they did in 2016. Letting republicans write their news script for them.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. And technically not even "confirmed" yet

until just after midnight this past Monday (so early morning Tuesday Aug. 6) with that early virtual roll call having concluded with all the delegate votes tallied.

[JohnSJ]

24. The press has evolved into a lazy group of yellow journalist, based on sensationalism and

exaggeration, without any context or confirmation of accuracy.

In the book "All The President Men", there was a time when the press actually went out of their way to confirm the accuracy of story by requiring several reliable sources.

[nvme]

23. Its free airtime

However sensationalistic it may be, Harris could use the time for promoting her platform. Yes there are risk, but given her familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of her platform she can prepare for it. The more she is seen the more chances she can appeal to the undecideds or those who are wavering.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. I'd like to see her do one

With O'Donnell or Maddow or April Ryan if televised.

[BigDemVoter]

28. I am going to watch the reporters very closely

to compare those fuckers' behavior towards her versus their meek and timid behavior towards Orange Fanta **$$Y-Grabber yesterday during his unhinged string of non-sequiturs they called a "press conference."