Harris only has to wait out 36 days until early voting, and the press is letting her
By
Tiana Lowe Doescher
August 14, 2024 7:00 pm
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In the 24 days Kamala Harris has spent as first de facto and then the definitive Democratic presidential nominee since President Joe Biden withdrew from reelection, the vice president has sat down for zero interviews and publicly spoken to the press for a total of 70 seconds. During that minute-long gaggle after a Michigan rally last week, Harris said she hoped to schedule, maybe, a single interview by the end of the month. After four years of Democrats lambasting former President Donald Trump as an existential threat to our fragile democratic experiment, the press seems positively indifferent to the notion that a candidate who has not received a single national primary vote in either 2020 or 2024 is heading to a presidential election without even one on-the-record interview with one of its own.
In other words, Harris knows all she has to do is ride out the shortest campaign in modern history and that the media will evidently cover for her.
Sure, CNN’s John Berman admirably pushed back on the Harris campaign when it lied about her schedule in response to queries about her evasion of the media, and the Washington Post editorial board said that Harris must speak with journalists “if she hopes to prevail.” But evidently, that’s not really true. Somewhat innocuously, if not irritatingly, the Democratic hagiographers in the corporate media have peddled the party line that Republicans are “weird,” Harris is “brat,” and her candidacy marks the greatest thing since sliced bread. More maliciously, most in the media have ignored that Harris is a radical who presided over a quadrupling of the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States and an average annual inflation rate of nearly 6% and advocated nationalizing some 30% of the economy before that.
But Harris is running out the clock because she can.
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