Vice President Kamala Harris is opening up her media strategy, with a pair of new interviews set to drop — a sitdown with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle and an interview with a popular sports podcast.
Harris has been crisscrossing the country with her new VP pick Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), but has taken criticism from the media for not giving a press conference and very few interviews in the opening month-plus of her campaign.
But since giving a CNN interview with Dana Bash, the vice president’s media strategy has begun to widen with increased interactions with the press on the campaign trail, including a Q&A with the NABJ, interviews with local and national radio, and podcast hosts, and others.
On Tuesday night, Harris taped an interview with a popular podcast, and on Wednesday morning MSNBC announced in an email to Mediaite that Harris is sitting down with Ruhle for an interview to air Wednesday at 7 p.m.:
MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: STEPHANIE RUHLE TO INTERVIEW VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRISOne-on-One Interview to Air Tonight at 7 p.m. ET From
PittsburghSept. 25, 2024 – In an exclusive to air tonight at 7 p.m. ET on MSNBC, Vice President and Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris will join MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle from Pittsburg, Penn. for her first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.The exclusive interview will air tonight at 7 p.m. ET on MSNBC during a special two-hour edition of All In with Chris Hayes.
The interview comes days after Ruhle defended Harris’s bare-bones media strategy in an appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time.
According to a campaign official, Harris also taped an interview with the All the Smoke podcast on Tuesday for an upcoming episode:
Vice President Kamala Harris participated earlier today in a taped interview for the podcast All the Smoke, hosted by retired NBA players Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes.
The interview with Ruhle is likely to be economy-heavy, as the host has a background in financial journalism, and Harris is focusing on the economy in her speeches this week.
The podcast interview with hosts Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes comes as Harris fights a gender gap with male voters against former President Donald Trump.