BREAKING: RFK Jr. Has Landed a Nomination in the Trump Administration
Trump Has Made His Decision on Veterans Affairs
So, That's Why Bob Casey Didn't Concede the PA Senate Race
Did You Notice What's Suddenly Missing From AOC's Twitter Bio?
Blinken: Before Trump Takes Office, 'Every Dollar We Have at Our Disposal Will...
UR Investigating After 'Wanted' Posters Featuring Jewish Faculty, Staff Plastered Around C...
Chris Cuomo Spars With Viewer Over Everything That's Wrong With This Country
The View Suddenly Looking to Hire a Pro-Trump Woman As Ratings Nosedive
As He Gets Ready to Chair the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Rand Paul...
Kyrsten Sinema Has Some Words for Pramila Jayapal on Stating the Obvious About...
FBI Thwarts '9/11-Style' Terror Attack Plot on US Soil
One Hollywood Celeb Said That Her Family Moved Out of the ‘Scary’ and...
Egregious: A Wisconsin School District Received Over $1 Million to Promote Woke Initiative...
Revealed: How Bob Casey and His Lawyers Are Trying to Steal an Election...
Hundreds of Explicit Books Have Been Expunged From Schools in This State
Tipsheet

Kamala Harris Campaign Manager: VP Will Do Interviews On Her 'Own Time'

Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP

It’s been more than a month since President Joe Biden was forced out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, and it’s been more than a month since she sat down and addressed the American people. 

Advertisement

Since becoming the presumed Democratic nominee, Harris has dodged the media, only taking a few questions from reporters while being rushed to and from a waiting car. If Harris doesn’t sit down for an interview soon, her “honeymoon’s inevitably going to end,” according to Politico. 

MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera pointed out that with less than three months until the November election, the now-elected Democrat presidential nominee has yet to speak with media outlets and take one-on-one questions. 

Don’t expect Harris to do this anytime soon. According to Harris-Walz deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks, the vice president will sit down with the media on her own time.

I think she’ll sit down on her time. Look as you mentioned this was a truncated time frame. We have made sure that we were getting out talking to voters. I think people forget just how short of a time frame it has been. We had a change at top of the ticket, we elected a brand-new vice presidential nominee pick in Governor Walz. We had to host the convention and we had to make sure we’re communicating with voters. So there is no rest for the wicked, our campaign is going to continue to do all the things with he need to do. Vice President Harris will make herself available to speak to the press on her time and when she’s ready.

Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon acknowledged that the election “is a margin of error race.” Yet, the Democratic nominee refuses to address the American people without a script about the policies she is campaigning on. 

Advertisement

As Harris faces mounting pressure to give a sit-down interview without a script or a teleprompter, Democrats have downplayed her refusal to address the American people. 

On the contrary, former President Donald Trump hit the campaign trail even before announcing his run for the 2024 race. Since then, he has conducted multiple interviews, taken media questions from reporters, and held press conferences. 

Several Democrats who attended the Democratic National Convention (DNC) said they are confident Harris will give interviews when ready, dismissing concerns that the vice president’s “honeymoon” phase might end. 

“Let's give some time," a delegate from Indiana, Heather Pirowski, said. "I think just be patient because it's all gonna come.”

Another Democratic delegate, this one from Texas, pointed his nose at critics calling on Harris to take unscripted questions from the press, saying, “It's up to her.” 

“I mean when they have to resort to those tactics and the name-calling and the vitriol and the misogynistic — he's back to 2016 when that's all he did against Hillary,” he said. 

“I think when she's ready, she'll be ready, and she's gonna step right on in,” a Democratic delegate from Houston said when asked her opinion on Harris not giving interviews. 

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement