Posted on 08/23/2024 6:02:11 AM PDT by DoodleBob
…With things trending so positively…the campaign probably calculates that it’s unlikely many undecided voters will be persuaded by anything she says in such formats (as opposed to messaging Harris can more fully control, like rallies and ads), while a botched answer could generate a great deal of new negative coverage and attacks.
Harris has suffered such fates in the past.
In January 2019, at the start of her presidential campaign, anchor Jake Tapper asked at a CNN town hall whether her support of Medicare-for-all meant she wanted to eliminate private health insurance. Harris responded by saying that, yes, you won’t have to go through a private insurance company anymore: “Let’s eliminate all that. Let’s move on.” That answer, and the topic of health care generally, would dog her in the months to come (she would eventually backtrack on her answer).
Accounts of Harris’s vice presidency typically treat a June 2021 interview with Lester Holt of NBC News as the moment that put her off interviews in general. Tasked by President Joe Biden with addressing root causes of unauthorized immigration, Harris came prepared to discuss that policy matter and her recent trip to Guatemala and Mexico. But Holt pressed her on a different question: why hadn’t she gone to the border herself yet?
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But Harris answered strangely. Rather than simply batting it away by giving a vague answer that she planned to visit the border later on, she said she’d go at some point but then asserted “We’ve been to the border,” repeating that sentence four times. Holt naturally followed up by saying that she hadn’t, in fact, been to the border. Harris responded: “And I haven’t been to Europe,” and laughed, before saying she didn’t understand Holt’s point.
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If Harris does a presser, it’s likely a sign that her internals are bad.
Polling for the next week will reflect the Convention honeymoon.
Wait until after 9/11.
Sorry…it is VOX via MSN, not Fox. My bad.
Not as long as The Big Cheat is in.
It would be stupid for her to do interviews or pressers.
The history of humanity has been 95% of the people just trying to take care of their families battling 5% who are psychopaths and want all of the wealth in the world and to be able to do whatever they want.
Is the title a serious question?
A rhetorical question?
A complete joke??
they’re waiting to see if he gets sentenced by merchan before they do anything imho.
In come the trolls..."The cheat, the cheat...all is not well" trolls crowd
She’ll do one right after the inauguration.........Pinky Promise...........
Why open your mouth and let the world know your an idiot with no plan if you don’t have to?
Don’t expect a plan or an open discussion from Harris.
The “salad bar” will remain closed until further notice.
Drive thru (media) will be the only available service.
Sign up for the app and have your credit card ready at the window.
There are monsters in this world.
They look just like us.
They imitate us enough so that we don’t look too closely at them.
They do not have the same thoughts and feelings as us.
They view us as being beneath them….much less than them.
It is their right to treat us any way they want.
They are better than us.
The worst are the Soft Monsters.
These are the monsters who pretend to be all kind and caring while really just despising you.
They talk about free health care and free housing and how those who oppose them are heartless.
Those who oppose them know them for the monsters they are.
I think the standard breakdown is that the country is roughly one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, and one-third Independent.
It always comes down to the Independents, right?
Well, the media says Trump is a threat to “Our Democracy”.
He has already been president for 4 years. He gave us peace and prosperity. Do the Independents have no recollection of this?
Harris has been in no primaries this year. Has received no votes. Had no press conferences. No interviews. Has no policy platform. Do the Independents find all of this a compelling reason to support her? Trump is running again on peace and prosperity and honest government. Do the Independents not care about any of that?
It’s either a Trump landslide or else it’s a Steal.
And if it’s a Steal, will anyone do anything?
Answer: No one will do anything. Which is why the Steal is pretty likely. Why should Kamala campaign in any way? What’s the point?
Why would she? Zero risk. She’ll get the ballots no matter what she does or says. The only risk to her campaign is that people find out what she wants to do as President. The media doesn’t have to report that unless she says it.
Yes, even if its just for the comedy value. We need some more grist for the comedy mill.
It’s time for CommieKamalamadingdong to stop being a disgrace to the United States and the Milky Way galaxy.
I think you’re going to see a lot of flailing from the Dems as Kamala fails to gain traction, which will cause more drop in numbers, which will cause even more flailing.
The real test will be whatever emergency the Dems concoct to shut the election down.
The Dems have learned that they needn’t expose candidates to questions, even from a fawning media. When you have weak candidates, simply hide them and let the media do the work. If you allow those candidates to interact with the media, you risk mistakes.
It works. It worked with Biden. Just say she’s on the blue team, let others in the media and celebrities build her up, and *viola* president Harris.
I share your optimism. In a few months kamalla and Walzzz will be gone. I really think dems know they’re going to lose the presidency. They can’t cheat to the level they need to drag kamalla into the Whitehouse. Now they are muddying up everything and likely focused on stealing/buying certain senate and house seats so they can stop president Trump from stomping on all their dreams of open borders, endless wars and general chaos. And lots of gayness.
Is it time? It is time and well past time for some kind of coherent statement to the press and the people of America.
If “Que mala” Harris does not get moving, Trump will do her press conference FOR her.
I do not see it going well either way, because anything she says just comes out as a word salad, and if Trump has to serve as her press agent, do not expect too much in the way of any glowing compliments or praise for accomplishments.
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