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How the hell do they get away with it?
In the past month, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has sat down to conduct just one full-length interview with a reporter, a joint appearance with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Within that same period of time, Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance have done 37 interviews. In a country with a press fixated on the public interest, this would be a crisis. Someone running for a position through which they control the country’s nuclear arsenal is barely exposing herself to the press. In fact, many of Harris’s policy pivots are happening via aides telegraphing them to reporters. This means that she doesn’t have to even sit down and explain why she has shifted from one view to another.
But much of the media has decided that none of this matters because she’s up in the polls. The New Republic, for instance, featured a piece stating bluntly in its headline that she “doesn’t need policy to win”.
In the past month, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has sat down to conduct just one full-length interview with a reporter, a joint appearance with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Within that same period of time, Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance have done 37 interviews. In a country with a press fixated on the public interest, this would be a crisis. Someone running for a position through which they control the country’s nuclear arsenal is barely exposing herself to the press. In fact, many of Harris’s policy pivots are happening via aides telegraphing them to reporters. This means that she doesn’t have to even sit down and explain why she has shifted from one view to another.
But much of the media has decided that none of this matters because she’s up in the polls. The New Republic, for instance, featured a piece stating bluntly in its headline that she “doesn’t need policy to win”.
Stop letting the press give Kamala Harris a free ride
In the past month, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has sat down to conduct just one full-length interview with a reporter, a joint appearance with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Within that same period of time, Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance have done...
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