Vice President Kamala Harris Predictably 49 days have passed, and now, the official Democratic nominee for President without an official press conference.
Under pressure to sit for a substantive interview after weeks of stonewalling, Harris finally ended her interview drought last month when she joined mate Tim Walz for a pre-taped segment with CNN’s Dana Bash last Thursday in Georgia that was far from over. From a traditional press conference.
“She should hold a fairly regular press conference. Americans have a right and need to know what her policy stance is,” conservative influencer Tim Young told Fox News Digital.
“Anyone who wants to lead the free world has to be able to handle the questions of the press,” Young continued. “If Kamala can’t handle real questions from the press, she can’t handle negotiations with foreign leaders at all.”
As for when he will actually hold a formal press conference, that day will never come, at least while he is still a candidate.
“You won’t see a press conference from her in the next 75 days until Election Day,” Fox News contributor Joe Concha predicted early last month.
Conservative Radio Libre host Jorge Bonilla thinks Harris should hold a press conference but said it’s almost “irrelevant” because she continues to get a pass.
“She is unlikely to hold a press conference because the media has enabled and encouraged her ‘plexiglass basement’ strategy, in which she maintains the illusion of being out there while being completely inaccessible and therefore unaccountable to the press,” Bonilla told Fox News Digital. .
Curtis Hawk, managing editor of Newsbusters, felt that the vice president “clearly owes it to the American people to hold free-wheeling press conferences where reporters can, unlike what happened. [Thursday] Ask follow-up questions, with CNN’s Dana Bash.
“For every softball, say ABC or NPR, you would hope that a liberal journalist would show some courage to do the right thing,” Hoke told Fox News Digital.
“The interview itself had a positive atmosphere. From the get-go in a hype video-like opening by Bash, CNN gave the impression that this was an event, not a grinding fact-finding mission,” Hawke continued. “She missed the litany of topics with Harris. Allowing death row inmates to vote, shutting down ICE, defunding the police, ending private insurance, girl’s sports, the filibuster, Jussie Smollett, the Minneapolis bail fund, systemic racism… these were some of the areas she could have touched on.
Former President Trump has sat for several long interviews and held a pair of press conferences in recent weeks to try to highlight the contrast in media availability between the two.
Harris received mixed reviews for her performance at the bash, where she fielded most of the questions but Walz was still there for support.
“My fear is that, seeing as Barack Obama wasn’t as bosh as CBS’s Steve Croft or NPR’s Steve Inskeep, the liberal media will claim this and the next ABC debate is enough interview time for the campaign,” Hawke said.
Paul Steinhauser of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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