Kamala clearly not ready for solo interview but totally ready to be the leader of the free world. She's the dog that caught the car
https://t.co/TAdXD5JDVy— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) August 27, 2024
Posted on 08/27/2024 7:59:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is so weird.
Kamala Harris has been running for president for more than a month at this point but she has yet to give a single media interview. Instead her campaign has been coasting on a) relief it's not Biden, b) carefully orchestrated events, and c) brat/joy vibes.
As Ed Morrisey pointed out earlier, the media pressure on the Harris camp to actually put the candidate out there has been ramping finally after weeks of them settling for nothing. She had, after all, promised to give an interview before the end of August. She only had until Saturday to keep that promise.
This afternoon CNN revealed that Harris has finally agreed to do her first interview with their network, only it won't be just Harris it will be a joint interview featuring Harris and Walz.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will sit with CNN for their first joint interview on Thursday as Democrats work to broaden their base’s excitement from last week’s Democratic National Convention.
The interview, conducted by CNN’s chief political correspondent and anchor Dana Bash, will air at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday. It occurs as the candidates embark on a bus tour through the battleground state of Georgia and marks the first time Harris has sat with a journalist for an in-depth, on-the-record conversation since President Joe Biden dropped his bid for a second term and endorsed her on July 21.
After 37 days as the candidate, Harris is giving a joint interview. Could it be any more clear that Harris and her team don't believe she's up to standing on her own? She needs Walz there as a backup in case she goes off the rails.
Just truly funny that Harris refused to talk to the press for more than a month because she’s such a liability, and when she finally gave in it was for a joint interview.— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August 27, 2024
She's been Vice President for 3 1/2 years. At what point do we take the training wheels off her bike?
Kamala clearly not ready for solo interview but totally ready to be the leader of the free world. She's the dog that caught the car
https://t.co/TAdXD5JDVy— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) August 27, 2024
First question at the joint interview should be "Why couldn't you do this interview solo?"
LOL, a joint interview. She simply cannot be left unattended. https://t.co/ipJiD4IMXh— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) August 27, 2024
It really is like bringing your dad to a job interview.
"Vice President Harris, will you sit for an interview?"
"Only if I can bring Dad with me!" https://t.co/NztFsVwg3v— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) August 27, 2024
Also, it will be taped. Why exactly?
Why did CNN agree to do a pre-taped interview with Harris and Walz instead of going live?
And why isn't Harris doing this solo?
Dana Bash will conduct the interview, the same "anchor" who insisted recently that Harris wasn't the Border Czar.— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 27, 2024
Even CNN, in the article announcing the interview, points out that Harris has a track record of failure in this department.
Previous major interviews have presented a challenge for Harris. During a 2021 sit-down with NBC’s Lester Holt, Harris responded with annoyance when asked why she had not visited the US-Mexico border as part of her assignment to investigate root causes of migration from Central and South America.
“At some point, you know, we are going to the border,” Harris said in the interview. “We’ve been to the border. So, this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. We’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”
Holt responded: “You haven’t been to the border.”
Over at NY Magazine, Jonathan Chait argues that this strategy for managing a big interview is the wrong one. Instead of putting all the eggs in one basket, he thinks Harris should do lots of interviews so the importance of each one is lessened.
Harris had a poor interview with Lester Holt, in which she failed to provide a convincing answer for why she hadn’t visited the border (it was not her job). That interview had an inordinate impact on her public persona because there was little else to shape it.
The correct takeaway from this experience shouldn’t be that Harris needs to avoid interviews. It’s that a dearth of interviews creates a situation in which a single interview has an extreme effect on her public image...
The opposite approach would be to flood the zone with interviews. Not all of them have to be brand-name national reporters. Local news stations have real journalists who ask questions their audiences care about. But, yes, getting Harris out into the news several times a week is actually a much safer strategy.
He's probably right but then again, this is similar to the argument people were making about Joe Biden just a few months ago. If you're worried about his age, just watch him go! Except people were watching and what they saw was concerning to them. Similarly, the idea of getting Harris out there several times a week or more is great until she face-plants two days in a row. There's every reason to think it will happen and her people know that.
Once again the Democrats are doing their best to hide the candidate from the voters. It didn't work out with their first pick in this race but given that we only have 10 weeks until the election, they might just pull it off with their 2nd pick. They will unless the media takes a real interest in vetting her as an actual candidate instead of as a marketing brand.
The best comment I’ve seen:
“Harris has to bring her emotional support governor to the interview”.
Tape Propaganda
JFK JR, is right.
Hill can speak and think on her feet. Like her or not she is a leader—Ruthless to be true, but no one’s cats paw. Kammy had no choice—she had to do something. I would hate to be the reporter doing the interview. Comedown too soft and your dismissed as a Left wing shill. Comedown too strong and your seen as a Trump loving thug. I bet Walz will do all the talking and that would be bad for Kammy. A few laughs and a stammering word salad will sink her bid. Mistake to have Walz on with her—it brings home her weakness. We shall see... she might really surprise us—like she did with her sleepfest debate with Pence (with his fly).
Tape Propaganda
RFK Jr, is right
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42 (presumably friendly territory like Charlamange the Narcissist)
still friendly territory, though who could anticipate a ride along
40
It will probably be a canned, highly edited interview.
I seriously doubt at this point in time that it will be live.
got that one
I hope she wears a turtle neck shirt/blouse.
still waiting.
She’s nothing without a man.
Okay guys, I'm going to ask you both "says what the question is". If you want to change your answer after the first take just let me know and we'll shoot the scene over.
I bet they will do retakes of Comrade Kamalas’ scripted answers. Walz’s over-reactions will be modified through AI generation. The final product will be like a campaign commercial. Of course, all of this will be covered up.
C’mo man,
CNN will not be nearly that rough on the beaver.
Dont you love the glamor shot media photo of Harris?
No way she even looks close to that now.
Bringing her dad to the job interview is EXACTLY what I thought. She’s SO insecure, SO incompetent and SO, SO wrong for the office.
It is exactly why she was put in the VP slot - because she isn’t a threat or could do serious damage (other than totally neglect the border - her one JOB. They all figured Biden is safe with her as backup. Nobody would take him out for fear she’s waiting. But it turns out they thought wrongly. Biden and the MSM and Democrats thought they could get away with his dementia. They just didn’t take “We beat Medicare” into account.
So, in this chaperoned interview she can defer to Tampon Timmy whenever a toughie question comes up, or he can just chime right in and take it. In the end, she gets all the praise and none of the blame.
She’s out runnin’ around south Georgia today on a ‘bus’ tour.....I wonder if it’s yellow
Why would she agree to be bothered? It’s not as if the liberal party cares whether she has a single qualification other than being top side of the grass.
She’s nothing with one either.
Only commercials are pre-taped.
Walz will be available to do any mansplaining that might be required
They have to edit out all of Kamala's cackling so they can fit the "interview" into the time slot. /s
Thats what I think. She will defer a lot to him.
Wow...these two are practically the same age (6 months apart). Holy cow.
Aw, isn’t this just so sweet? Democrats are bringing back adult male “chaperones” for females to protect them.
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