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Kamala Harris’s campaign reduced her time on the campaign trail this week, opting to prepare for an interview with NBC and a CNN town hall. The schedule is unusual for the closing weeks of a presidential campaign. Candidates typically place greater importance on holding local events in swing states rather than sitting for interviews with friendly networks. Harris will sit for an interview on Tuesday with NBC’s Hallie Jackson, whose reporting appears biased against former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Harris will attend a CNN town hall. Trump has often called CNN “fake news.”

By now it’s become obvious that the Harris campaign is acting desperate. After weeks of doing no interviews, they’ve suddenly put Kamala out there, without training wheels, hoping she doesn’t crash. This strategy hasn’t gone very well. It hasn't mattered that these interviews were on friendly territory, with interviewers who obviously support her; Harris hasn't been impressive, and each interview has given the Trump campaign new ammunition. This week alone, she’s gone on “60 Minutes,” “The View,” “The Late Show,” and even a sex podcast called “Call Her Daddy.” None have been a net gain for the campaign, and it’s...

Of late, the democrat powers that be are reading the tea leaves and have gone into a panic. Up to now, Harris has taken a page out of the Biden playbook and been cloistered in the basement avoiding anything that resembles a real interview. It's not working, and they know it. Vice President Kamala Harris has emulated her former running mate’s 2020 presidential campaign in minimizing her time in the spotlight and carefully managing her few public media interactions with friendly outlets. Some Democrats are increasingly worried that what worked for President Joe Biden, may not yield similar fruit for...

NBC News chief Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that Vice President Kamala Harris has to “double down” on doing serious interviews because she is not polling well with male voters. Mitchell said, “They have to double down on doing more interviews and serious interviews because what I’m hearing from Democratic and Republican business people and a lot of men. She has such a big problem with men. I think there’s an undercount of the Trump vote. I think there’s misogyny in all of this, black and white men, big problem.”

Senator JD Vance (R-OH), running mate of former and potentially future President Donald Trump, has been lauded as a fitting mouthpiece for the Trump-Vance campaign. An undeniable point about the 2024 presidential race is that Vance is out there speaking to the people and the press. Since July 21, when President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Vance has done 59 interviews. Trump has done 14. Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has given just three interviews, while her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), has given four interviews. Vance has given seven times more interviews on his own than...

Former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) have done more than ten times the interviews their opponents, Vice President Kamala Harris and vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) have done, according to a report. Axios compiled the numbers of interviews that both sides have given, which show a stark contrast in their willingness to explain to the American public what their policies and stances are. In fact, the Harris-Walz campaign is on pace to do fewer interviews and press conferences than “any major party’s presidential pairing in modern history,” Axios reported.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who only sat for one interview since joining the presidential race, will answer questions in a couple of local and national interviews in the next few weeks, according to a campaign memo reported by the New York Times. The announcement is a reversal in strategy and comes just two days after Harris appeared to avoid most questions during her first presidential debate. Political pundits slammed her for appearing evasive particularly on the first question on the economy, the number one issue for voters. “Despite the economy being the number one issue facing the country, the sitting...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that while 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris should do town hall-type discussions, but with one-on-one media interviews, “some times, you drill down into a question until there’s a word that’s uttered that can be used in a negative way.” Host Jake Tapper asked, “One thing we continue to hear from Democrats, supporters of Vice President Harris, is that she still needs to fill in some of the blanks more, let people know where she stands on specific policies and how her policies will affect them....

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) stated that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris avoiding interviews so far hasn’t been a problem because “she’s brought joy back into the whole arena of politics. There will be plenty of time to do interviews.” Co-host Kate Bolduan asked, “Elon Musk wrapped this conversation with Donald Trump, saying this, in part, that he thinks the country is at a fork in the road of destiny of civilization and I think we need to take the right path, and I think you’re the right path,...

Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to sit for one-on-one interview after becoming the Democrat party’s de facto nominee last week. Harris’s lack of media accessibility suggests she might run a similar campaign to President Joe Biden, who seldomly held solo press conferences and rarely sat for live interviews. It also indicates Harris might be concerned about answering questions related to her radical record. GovTrack’s scorecard ranked her as the most liberal senator in 2019, further left than socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), leading writers of the New York Times to rate Harris as the least electable of ten possible...

On Friday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Today,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) responded to a question on President Joe Biden doing fewer news conferences and interviews than his predecessors by stating that he thinks Biden “is pacing himself.” And that while Biden should do more town hall-style events, “I don’t want people to think that you’ve got to be going through the trials of a press conference.” Co-host Craig Melvin asked, “He’s done fewer news conferences than any president — the last seven presidents, fewer news conferences, fewer interviews like this. Do you think this White House has shielded...

Andrea Widburg is an attorney, Managing Editor for American Thinker, and owner of the website Bookwormroom.com. On the podcast we discuss unrest in Europe, Trump/Biden debate, SCOTUS ruling, lawfare, 2024 election and much more.

Recent college graduates are failing at job interviews, according to a new study. Developmental setbacks from various factors have appeared to delay communication skills among Gen Z grads — and employers are taking notice. In a Dec. 2023 study, the New Jersey-based research group Intelligent surveyed 800 U.S. managers, directors and executives who are involved in hiring. One in five employers reported that recent college grads are generally unprepared when it comes to interviewing for a job. More than half of employers surveyed said Gen Z candidates struggle the most with eye contact during interviews. Candidates in this age group...

Steven Spainhouer rushed to Allen Premium Outlets — a shopping center in Allen, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, where the shooting happened — when his son called just after 3:30 p.m. local time and said he had heard gunfire. Just one problem… According to the Allen Police Department, Spainhouer is a total fraud. Spainhouer thought that he could make statements that would make him a material witness to mass murder and that they wouldn’t want to talk to him or investigate his claims. When Allen PD caught up with Spainhouer to discuss what he saw, it was determined that Spainhouer’s statements...

In late 2022, Jessica found herself in a predicament that will sound familiar to many job seekers: slogging through an extended interview process with seemingly no end in sight. She was up for a job as a fundraiser at a major social services organization in New York. Across the span of two months, she took part in six separate interviews with nine people total, multiple of whom she met more than once. She’d pulled one of her first all-nighters in years putting together a dummy presentation on a hypothetical corporate partnership for interview No. 4, which entailed what she describes...

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward is releasing a new audiobook which contains eight hours of audio recordings from his conversations with former President Trump over a four year period. The audiobook, portions of which were shared with CNN, is titled “The Trump Tapes” and will be released Oct. 25. The book will contain recordings of interviews Woodward conducted with Trump during his presidency from 2016 to 2020.

Long-time Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said on Tuesday that he plans to release a new audiobook based on 9 hours of a never-before-heard interviews with former President Donald Trump. "I'm going through, now, nine hours of Trump interviews I did, that were not published, we're going to put out an audio book, Simon & Schuster, of nine hours of Trump that we have never heard before," Woodward said on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "You see who this man is, what he cares about, the self-focus, the absence of being concerned about the people out there," he also said. "This is...

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With one year in office behind him, analysts have been busy tallying all of the statistics related to Joe Biden’s presidency. One number stands out like a sore thumb and should be of concern to any serious journalist (though you’ll rarely hear any of them complain about it). After twelve months, President Joe Biden has held fewer press conferences than any American president since the early 1980s. In fact, the numbers aren’t even close when compared to other presidents in the modern era. Biden has managed a grand total of nine press conferences, less than the five presidents who preceded...