Harris Campaign Asking Reporters for Political Advice on Who VP Should Sit Down With for Long-Awaited Interview

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Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is now openly seeking political advice the reporters entrusted with covering it.

According to Politico Playbook, “Harris campaign staff have been asking reporters who they think she should talk to.”

President Joe Biden dropped out of this year’s presidential race over a month ago, and his subsequent endorsement of Harris essentially handed her the Democratic nomination without any further debate or primary process. Since suddenly ascending to the top of the ticket, Harris has not held a press conference or sat down for a major interview.

As conversation about her opaque candidacy increased a few weeks ago, the vice president sought to assuage concerns by declaring “I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month.” Still, there has been no movement by campaign on the issue.

Playbook reports on the complicated process through which the Democratic nominee will decide on who to sit down with:

Who should you send your pitch to? One source of intrigue concerns who in Harris world will actually make this decision. BRIAN FALLON, the campaign’s senior adviser for communications, is generally considered the key person. But the interview has to be coordinated with Harris’s official office, where the communications director is KIRSTEN ALLEN. We hear there are some tensions.

Another source with knowledge of the process said that STEPHANIE CUTTER, senior adviser for message and strategy, will have an outsized role, as well. Campaign chair JEN O’MALLEY DILLON and senior advisor DAVID PLOUFFE represent another camp. And MAYA HARRIS and TONY WEST, Harris’s sister and brother-in-law, will weigh in with their own views.

Harris herself, meanwhile has “expressed disagreement” with the idea that she needs to do a “lengthy serious interview with a brand-name news anchor who will push her on issues.”