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CNN’s John Berman pressed Kamala Harris marketing campaign spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod about dodging the media on Tuesday because the candidate continues to keep away from the press after clinching the Democratic nomination.
Berman requested Elrod a number of occasions about Harris’ schedule on Tuesday, and Elrod touted their fundraising numbers and famous that Harris and working mate Tim Walz had made a number of stops in key swing states during the last week. Harris has gone 23 days with out giving a proper press interview or press convention since she successfully took President Biden’s spot on the prime of the ticket.
“The reason I was asking you about today is because it seems like she has time if she wanted to do an interview with a member of the media or do a news conference, correct? There does appear to be that time, if she wanted,” Berman stated.
Elrod stated Harris had stated she would get an interview scheduled earlier than once more noting that Harris was taking her message “to the American people” by rallies and appearances throughout the nation.
CNN’s John Berman pressed Harris Spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod on VP Harris’ schedule. (Screenshot/CNN)
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“She hit a number of battleground states. I think we had 15,000 people in Detroit last week, 12 to 13,000 in Nevada. She’s been taking her message to the voters and drawing large crowds. So she’s actually having those direct conversations,” Elrod stated, earlier than Berman jumped in once more.
“But not today — all I’m saying is not today. She could do an interview today, I would think, you know, because she’s not out there today,” the CNN host stated.
Harris’ spokeswoman once more argued that the vice chairman was taking her message on to voters.
“Well, look, she’s taking her message directly to voters. And, just because she doesn’t have anything, an interview schedule on her public schedule, doesn’t mean that she’s not taking her message directly to voters about how she’s going to improve their lives, how she’s going to protect their economic freedoms, how she’s going to expand their rights as Americans,” Elrod stated.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout the conclusion of the Investing in America tour at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 14, 2023. (SAUL LOEB/AFP through Getty Images)
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Harris briefly spoke to reporters on the tarmac at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport after a marketing campaign occasion in Michigan and responded to criticism over her lack of media appearances.
“I’ve talked to my team. I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month,” Harris stated. Harris continues to face calls from pundits and members of the media to interact with the press amid her fast rise to the highest of the Democratic ticket. Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris on July 21, and the social gathering quickly consolidated round her.
The Washington Post editorial board referred to as on Harris to interact with reporters on Sunday, saying she ought to account for her coverage flip-flops on a variety of points, together with fracking, well being care and immigration.
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“The media and public have legitimate questions, and she should face them. This is a political necessity — Mr. Trump is already turning her avoidance of the media into an attack line. And elections aren’t just about winning. They’re about accumulating political capital for a particular agenda, which Ms. Harris can’t do unless she articulates one,” the editors on the Post wrote in an editorial.
