Biden Took More Questions In the Last 2 Months of His Doomed Campaign Than Harris Has Since Taking Over
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President Joe Biden has been more averse to taking questions and media appearances than any commander-in-chief in modern history, yet his preferred successor is even less inclined to submit to scrutiny from the press.
According to The New York Times, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has answered fewer questions in the first two months of her campaign that Biden did in the last two months of his doomed effort to win reelection.
From the Times‘ report:
During her 2020 campaign and early in her vice presidency, some of Ms. Harris’s biggest missteps came during unscripted encounters with journalists. To avoid taking chances, she has granted only six interviews in the 58 days since President Biden withdrew from the race, three with friendly radio hosts. Even the press-averse Mr. Biden took more questions in the final two months of his campaign than Ms. Harris has in what is nearly the first two months of hers.
Her team says this is about to change, promising a series of appearances across an array of media venues, including local and national outlets, podcasts, radio stations and daytime talk shows.
While Harris’s opponent, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has also been reticent to sit down for one-on-one interviews with unfriendly interviewers, mostly delegating that task to his running mate, Senator JD Vance (R-OH), the Times contrasted Harris’s reluctance to engage with the press with his Trump’s trio of recent press conferences.
In one radio interview from Monday flagged by Axios’s Alex Thompson, the host began the conversation by telling Harris “you have already made history in so many levels. You’re the first African American and Asian woman to be vice president of the United States and soon, hopefully, president.”
The host concluded by expressing her hope that she and Harris might share a margarita at the White House “soon.”
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The Times noted that during another recent short radio hit, Harris was asked about solutions to inflation, she spoke about her own biography for almost two minutes.
