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11 Days: Kamala Harris has not held a press conference since emerging as presumptive Democratic nominee
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Monica Crowley: Kamala Harris is the most unpopular vice president in recent American history
Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 11 days without holding a press conference since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.Harris announced that she had locked up the nomination late on July 22, declaring that she had won commitments of backing from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates to next month's Democratic National Convention. She has since hit the campaign trail, spoken at various events, and even chatted with reporters here and there, but hasn’t done a formal press conference or wide-ranging interview in the 10 days that have followed.
She also failed to appear at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, where former President Trump made headlines on Wednesday with a heated question-and-answer session.
Harris, who became the likely nominee without receiving a single primary vote when President Biden announced he would step aside, has been so elusive that The New York Times published excerpts from an interview she conducted last year to see where her answers "land now."
Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 10 days without holding a press conference since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Much of the Democratic Party — including governors, senators and House members as well as party leaders — quickly coalesced behind Harris following Biden's blockbuster news. But critics have started to take notice that Harris hasn’t faced tough questions since.
National Review senior writer Noah Rothman asked his social media followers on Wednesday, "When is Kamala Harris going to hold a press conference?"
The RNC Research account on X noted on Wednesday that she has only done "teleprompter speeches," and conservative pundit Ben Shapiro said Harris "has not answered ONE difficult question in the last week and a half."
NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham expects her to follow President Biden’s 2020 playbook, when he was famously accused of hiding in his basement during the COVID pandemic.
"Kamala Harris should absolutely hold a press conference. One would expect it when she names her vice-presidential pick. But we cannot expect her to break from Biden's serial avoidance of press conferences," Graham told Fox News Digital.
"Since the 2020 campaign, we have witnessed the bizarre spectacle of Donald Trump granting wide access to networks that suggest he's a fascist and hammer him daily, while Biden and Harris won't grant interviews to media outlets that gurgle all over them and their ‘historic accomplishments,’" he continued. "Either they think the press can never be servile enough or they are projecting a complete lack of confidence in their efforts to put complete sentences together."....
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What is Kamala afraid of? Why is she avoiding the press? Why did she stand up the Black Journalist Convention? Was she terrified of Trump? Is she afraid to hit softballs that the media would throw to her? Is she afraid of her usual word salad? Will she try to hide till election day? Will she ever go off the teleprompter?
Why do you have to lie?
