The New York reporter calls on the media to help Kamala get away with not answering questions

Against the comfort of the corporate media and liberals in a “thin fog” regarding Vice President Kamala Harris, one writer issued a stark reminder about the “job of the press.”

“We don't know the answers to any of those questions.”

Since the vice president was crowned the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, the media's scrutiny of her policies has been as deep as its explorations of President Joe Biden's cognitive ability. But while many outlets remained comfortable pushing the “brat” candidate and blasting the “weirds” on the Trump-Vance ticket, New York staff writer Jay Caspian Kang questioned what might come next of not questioning Harris's policies.

“A generic candidate who doesn't promise anything on the campaign trail and isn't burdened with any past could be an electoral politics nerd's dream.” he wrote Kang, “but it's the job of the press in a healthy democracy to make sure voters know who they're supporting. An unvetted candidate can become anything, and can work under anyone's influence, when he assumes power.”

Comparing Harris to a tennis “pusher”, who relies on his opponent to make a mistake, he argued: “That seems to be the strategy of the Kamala campaign: don't make unforced errors, keep things vanilla and ultimately , Trump or Vance will implode.”

“Harris, as Vance has pointed out repeatedly on Twitter, using the hashtag #wheresKamala, has taken almost no questions from reporters and has spent most of her time giving speeches at rallies,” Thursday's piece noted. “He has not explained what exactly happened in Washington after President Joe Biden's disastrous debate; or why he has changed his mind on fracking, which he once said should be banned, and faltered on Medicare for All, which he supported; or what he plans to do with Lina Khan, the head of the Federal Trade Commission, who is said to be unpopular with some of Harris' wealth donors; or much about how a Harris administration would handle the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.”

Kang also drew attention to the need for clarity on his positions and policies to push for a Gaza ceasefire and an arms embargo against Israel. To his point, Ohio Senator JD Vance had capital letter on the fact that the sitting vice president did not take questions from the press for the better part of a month while her campaign was underway confronting the complicit media outside Air Force Two while they were both in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

When he finally engaged with the press in Detroit, Michigan, Harris defended the lack of access to the media saying to the press: “I have spoken to my team. I want to set up an interview before the end of the month.”

“Most liberals I know seem to be shrouded in a pleasant, if thin, fog in which concerns and criticism melt away,” Kang wrote.

Supporting the need for a basement campaign similar to Biden's 2020 run, Harris took heat earlier in the week when he broke with another repeat the speech to confront the Hamas interlocutors who left her upset.

“You know what, if you want Donald Trump to win, say that. Otherwise, I'm talking,” he had said during his rally in Detroit.

Harris reacts angrily to the interlocutors, accuses them of helping Trump https://t.co/wmkupP6trw

— BPR (@BIZPACReview) August 8, 2024

“But so far, there haven't been particularly strong or widespread calls for him to sit down and answer questions, as there was for Biden after his disastrous debate,” Kang said, adding, “If Harris is running a high-energy but low-profile campaign, we'd have to say that even if we think Harris' content-light approach is an optimal strategy to win in November.”

Almost alone in the claim, SE Cupp had taken a similar position when she had a tense exchange during a CNN panel with Bakari Sellers who argued: “Don't worry about us, let somebody ask questions.”

“No, I speak in wavering voices all the time,” he said Cupp. “They have questions, they want answers … because when fans ask Bakari, when friends ask them, when the replacements ask them, they're not getting the real answer.”

In response to concerns about the hijacked strategy, Harris' campaign released a statement to Fox News Digital argued“With less than 90 days to go, the vice president's top priority is to get the support of the voters who will decide this election. In a limited time frame and fragmented media environment, this requires us to be strategic, creative and fast in getting our message to voters in the most impactful way: through paid media, on-the-ground organizing and a aggressive campaign schedule. and of course interviews that reach our target voters. It's a far cry from Trump's losing and ineffective strategy of publishing outrage, attacking reporters and insulting voters that he will need to win.”

Staff writer

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he's not researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel the

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