After over a month since becoming the Democrat nominee for president, Vice President Kamala Harris has finally agreed to sit down for an interview. This will occur just a day before the end of August, a deadline in which she gave herself to participate in a sit down interview with members of the press.
And while Americans are glad that she’s finally going to appear for an interview, the excitement was quickly brought down to reality after it was announced that the interview would be prerecorded and on CNN. Not only that, but her running mate, Gov. Tim Waltz (D-MN) will be joining her for the interview. So Kamala Harris will not be making the appearance alone and can be bailed out by her Vice President pick if she needs it.
This has many Americans frustrated that, yet again, Kamala Harris is avoiding tough questioning by taking what they would consider the easiest route possible for a news network interview. It was just last month when Joe Biden, the sitting President, was forced to make a ton of unscripted and unedited interviews with members of the press after his horrible debate performance that gave many reason to be concerned for his health.
Kamala’s Unprecedented Avoidance of News Media Appearances
When President Joe Biden announced in late July that he would be stepping down as the Democratic nominee for president, Vice President Kamala Harris was expected to take his place on the ticket. And when she eventually did, it was also expected that she would deliver a press conference or participate in an interview of some sort to discuss her policies as a nominee for President of the United States.
That’s usually what candidates do when they run for office, especially presidential candidates. They usually are ready to appear in front of a camera and answer real, tough questions about their record and what they plan to accomplish as the next commander-in-chief.
Both former President Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance have given numerous interviews during the time in which Harris has avoided the press. Vance has also taken shots at the Harris/Walz campaign for avoiding talking to journalists.
“I think it’s really disgraceful, both for Kamala Harris but also for a lot of the American media that participates in this stuff, to have a person who has been the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party for 17 days and refuses to take a single question from the American media,” J.D. Vance said several weeks ago.
Not only that, but Vance has appeared on several news outlets, like CNN and ABC News, that are considered Left-leaning to answer tough questions about his record as well as Donald Trump’s. Every single interview he takes, he is rightfully posed with the question of why he changed his tune about Donald Trump. He’s honest in his response that, in his opinion, he was wrong about Donald Trump at first back in 2016. But it’s a fair question.
JD Vance goes into enemy territory and lines out Dana Bash on the failures of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden! pic.twitter.com/JqnzsmXwdp
— • ᗰISᑕᕼIᗴᖴ ™ • (@4Mischief) August 12, 2024
This is common practice for political candidates and should be considered the norm. But up to this point, the Harris/Walz campaign has ignored this norm. No matter the political aisle you may be on, everyone should agree that a major political candidate should have to defend their stances and ideologies before an election. But unfortunately, not everyone, specifically members of the far-Left, agrees with this concept.
Harris/Walz Campaign Taking the Easy Way Out
Kamala Harris and her campaign are taking the right step forward in scheduling her first sit down interview since becoming her party’s nominee for president. The one problem with that is that the interview process she’s involved in couldn’t be any friendlier to her and her campaign.
By sitting down for a pre-recorded conversation on CNN, Harris likely won’t be challenged as much as she would be if she were a Republican. CNN is widely regarded, even by members of the Left, as having a strong Democrat bias. And the conductor of the interview, Dana Bash, has been quick to provide hostile questioning to Republicans in the past. It’s doubtful that the same line of questioning will be given to Harris and Walz.
But not only will Harris have what many expect to be soft-ball questions, she will also have Tim Walz by her side to back her up if she gets into trouble. Kamala Harris has, on many occasions, had trouble answering simple questions and starts going down a word salad rabbit trail from which she can’t pull herself out of.
Kamala is WORSE than Biden. He’s sick. She’s just dumb.
Talking and saying NOTHING.
"The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. When you think about it, there is a great significance, passage of time."
pic.twitter.com/VDinH9nydR— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) July 3, 2024
American voters deserve better than this. This applies to the Republican ticket as well. Voters should see both parties’ candidates face tough questions about the issues that are so important in today’s political landscape. Issues like illegal immigration, the economy, and national security.
Even though those who are big Kamala Harris fans may not like it, the truth is that Donald Trump regularly seeks out interviews of all sorts. He isn’t afraid to sit down with those who are extremely hostile to him, as we saw with his National Association of Black Journalists interview at the end of July.
Not only that, there shouldn’t be such thing as a softball interview, especially during a critical election year. Definitely not when early voting begins in a matter of a couple weeks in some states and regions.
What do you think? Is it a disservice for presidential candidates to avoid hard-hitting interviews while on the campaign trail? Or is this just a form of savvy political strategy? Let us know in the comments below!
