Harris skirts national press as she employs risk-averse media strategy
By
Haisten Willis
September 13, 2024 6:00 am
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Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign says it will be more aggressive after her well-received debate performance against former President Donald Trump. But her overall media strategy remains much more cautious than that of her opponent.
Her campaign released a memo Thursday promising “more media engagements” — but only with local press in battleground states. She also will hold a panel discussion with the National Association of Black Journalists, an organization she turned down when invited to speak at its annual convention in July.
Harris has cultivated a relatively distant relationship with the press since becoming the Democratic nominee on July 21. She has conducted only a single interview with a major TV news outlet, which was done alongside her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). Trump, by contrast, has spoken to reporters regularly and does extended interviews in nontraditional settings such as podcasts.
Harris has not conducted any press conferences and has only occasionally taken questions from traveling reporters, though her campaign did call for an additional debate following her solid performance against Trump, which he rejected Thursday. Trump had previously called for debates on Sept. 4 and Sept. 25, which were denied by Harris.
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