Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms argued Friday that the rationale Vice President Kamala Harris has accomplished so few media interviews is as a result of she’s “very busy.”
Harris, 59, is on tempo to grant the fewest interviews of any main get together’s presidential nominee ever. She has been slammed by each allies and critics for giving simply six sitdown interviews since President Biden ended his re-election bid on July 21.
Bottoms, a senior adviser for the Harris-Walz marketing campaign, recommended that the vice chairman doesn’t have time to do interviews when requested about her reluctance to talk with the media throughout an look on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
“She’s a very busy person,” Bottoms mentioned. “She’s the vice president as well as a candidate.”
The Harris aide argued that the Democratic nominee is already successfully articulating her coverage positions to voters by way of her scripted marketing campaign rallies.
“We heard her today talk about her views on these policies,” Bottoms mentioned. “It may not be in the format that the media would like. It may not be that she’s sitting down doing a one-on-one interview, but we heard her today in Georgia talk about her stance on reproductive freedom.”
Harris’ first sitdown interview since changing Biden on Democratic ticket got here virtually a month after the 81-year-old president endorsed her to run in his stead.
She introduced alongside her operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, 60, to sit down beside her for the Aug. 29 interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.
Harris has additionally sat down with Philadelphia’s ABC station, Spanish-language radio host Chiquibaby and a panel at a gathering of the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists (NABJ).
By comparability, former President Donald Trump, 78, has accomplished at the very least 3 times as many interviews in the identical interval, with some lasting at the very least an hour — equivalent to his current one-on-one over X Areas with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
In the meantime, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, 40, the Republican vice presidential candidate, has turn out to be a daily visitor on the Sunday morning community public affairs packages.
