“He did tons of interviews” before the coronation

The Democratic Party's recycling of the 2020 basement strategy saw a prominent senator reject calls for greater access to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Despite promises from President Joe Biden's administration to “return transparency and truth to government,” he had dropped off the radar before abandoning his re-election campaign only to pass the torch to his equally negative running mate in the press

Now, three weeks after Harris was crowned as the presumptive nominee in which communications with the press have largely been turned over to staffers and surrogates, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) has come to the defense of a campaign closing

“Kamala Harris has yet to do a press conference. She's been at it for 21 days. She hasn't done a single interview yet. Why is this and this going to change?” ABC News' Jonathan Karl raised during a Sunday interview for “This Week.”

Choking laughter, Klobuchar replied: “21 days, Jonathan, he started running for president. Before that, he did a bunch of interviews. He did interviews with you. He did interviews; I'm sure will do interviews.”

ABC: It's been 21 days and Kamala hasn't done a single interview or press conference…

KLOBUCHAR: “Before that, he did tons of interviews! He's done interviews with you. He's done interviews! I'm sure he'll do interviews.” pic.twitter.com/K7hy99q408

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 11, 2024

Having accomplished something the vice president had failed to do by winning seven delegates in the 2020 Democratic primary before suspending his campaign in early March, months after California Sen. Kamala Harris dropped out, the Minnesota lawmaker continued: “If you look at what's happening with the momentum and the polls and what's happening in swing states like Wisconsin, with the numbers changing, what's happening in Michigan, what's happening in Pennsylvania, it's incredible.”

“People in this country, independents, moderate Republicans, as well as, of course, Democrats, are saying, 'Wait a minute, I don't want to go back to this Donald Trump world; I want to move forward and get someone who works on things that matter to me and not just for him,” he argued.

On Klobuchar's suggestion that Harris would likely do more interviews, during the vice president's first interaction with the press since supplanting Biden at the top of the ticket, he told reporters in Michigan on Thursday: “I've talked to my team. I want that we set up an interview before the end of the month.”

The proposed timing would mean a debut interview for Harris' 2024 campaign for president would not come until after he has secured his party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, starting on 19 august

It was also likely to mean more pressure from the corporate media, which has apparently grown tired of carrying all the water for the vice president, who has so far remained noncommittal on key issues with voting blocs, as she planned manage the conflict in the Middle East.

New Yorker writer Jay Caspian Kang lamented the press for not challenging Harris with more questions: “A generic candidate who makes no campaign promises and is unencumbered by any past could be a political nerd's dream election, but it is the job of the press in a healthy democracy to make sure voters know who they support. An unvetted candidate can become anything and work under anyone's influence when he takes office.” .

The New York reporter calls on the media to help Kamala get away with not answering questions https://t.co/YqbyLvEu2s road @BIZPACRevision

— Based on BPR (@DumpstrFireNews) August 10, 2024

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who has repeatedly called Harris out for her radio silence, did so again during an interview with CNN's Dana Bash when he stated, “I think Kamala Harris is whoever she says she is, but I think the important thing is that President Trump is a chameleon. She pretends to be one thing to one audience; she pretends to be something different to another audience.”

“Look, Dana, she's not running a political campaign,” the GOP vice presidential nominee continued. “She's making a movie. She's just talking to voters behind a teleprompter. It's all written. She doesn't have her political positions out there. She hasn't answered why she wanted to ban fracking but now she doesn't; she wanted defund the police but now she doesn't; she wanted to open the border but now she doesn't”.

“It should answer why it presents a different set of policies to one audience and a different set of policies to another audience,” he said. “And I think that's what President Trump is going for. This is a fundamentally fake person; he's different depending on who he's in front of.”

Kamala Harris is not running a presidential campaign. He is producing a film. Everything is written wherever I go.

He's basically a fake person who changes his tune depending on the audience he's in. pic.twitter.com/HrCKF9XXSM

— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 11, 2024

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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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