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A senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris indicated she is just too “busy” to talk to the press extra typically as the ultimate weeks of the 2024 presidential election strategy.
Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta and now a outstanding Harris deputy, was pressed by CNN’s Jake Tapper concerning the vp’s “lack of normal interviews or questions from the press,” particularly in comparison with her GOP rival, former President Trump.
“Why?” Tapper requested. “Why doesn’t she do extra interviews to speak about her insurance policies and to reply a number of the questions voters have about her insurance policies and her altering positions on a few of them?
“Nicely, Jake, she’s executed interviews,” Lance-Bottoms countered. “And I do know we’d find it irresistible — otherwise you would find it irresistible — to see her sitting down with CNN day by day and doing interviews. However the factor is, she’s a really busy particular person. She’s each vp and candidate.”
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Keisha Lance Bottoms, a senior adviser to Harris-Walz’s marketing campaign, defended the vp when she was pressed concerning the Democratic nominee’s refusal to provide her additional interviews. (Screenshot/CNN)
“And we heard her discuss at this time about her positions on these insurance policies,” she continued. “It will not be within the format that the media would love. It will not be a one-on-one interview, however we heard her discuss at this time in Georgia about her place on reproductive freedom and if elected president of america, how she would use the ability of the pen to ensure that these freedoms are protected.”
Harris and her working mate, Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., have executed a mixed 15 interviews since final month, whereas Trump and his working mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, have executed a mixed 55.
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Different information organizations, together with The New York Instances and Axios, have criticized Harris and Walz for avoiding the media, noting that Harris has been extra withdrawn than she is within the first two months of her profitable marketing campaign. President Biden was within the remaining two months of his faltering marketing campaign.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris holds a dialogue hosted by the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists (NABJ), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 17, 2024. (Photograph by JIM WATSON/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Harris lately spoke extensively with Oprah Winfrey, together with a variety of A-list supporters, together with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Jennifer Lopez.
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Harris has not held a proper press convention since rising because the Democratic nominee, whereas Trump has held a number of in current weeks.
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Harris adviser dismisses lack of interviews: ‘She’s a really busy particular person’
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