It has been 44 days since Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket. She has given exactly one formal interview – the softball that was pre-taped for CNN last Thursday in which she appeared alongside her emotional support governor Tim Walz. No additional sit-downs or press conferences are scheduled and the Harris-Walz campaign continues to dodge giving clear answers on any issues.
And it appears as though the vice president has deployed a new trick to avoid the media. I mean, it is an age old trick, but it is new for a presidential candidate. We have all pretended at least once to be on the phone to try to avoid that pesky neighbor or annoying acquaintance who wants to talk to us. Harris just tried it, too – only she is running for president.
She exited a SUV on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on her way to Detroit, MI, on Monday, cell phone in hand with headphones in her ears. The presidential hopeful awkwardly saluted and shook hands with a service member before hurrying past the waiting press pool. After she ascended the steps onto Air Force Two, she paused at the top with the phone pressed to her ear – while still wearing headphones – and offered a quick wave to the reporters gathered below (above).
She has sat for one interview in which she had a total of 16 minutes of talk time. And that is the only non-scripted exchange she has had other than some surface-level, four-minute exchange plane-side a few weeks ago. That’s it.
They tried to get her to answer another question or two as she walked onto her plane, and she pretended she was on the phone. It was obviously a dodge. And even if it wasn’t, even if she actually had a phone call, obviously it was scheduled to create this moment where she could avoid having to answer a question from the press. She is terrified of them.
The media loves her. Their whole mission right now is to get her elected. And yet that is how afraid she is.
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