She has to have a committee making decisions on who she sits down with


Who should you send your pitch to? One source of intrigue concerns who in Harris world will actually make this decision. BRIAN FALLON, the campaign’s senior adviser for communications, is generally considered the key person. But the interview has to be coordinated with Harris’s official office, where the communications director is KIRSTEN ALLEN. We hear there are some tensions.

Another source with knowledge of the process said that STEPHANIE CUTTER, senior adviser for message and strategy, will have an outsized role, as well. Campaign chair JEN O’MALLEY DILLON and senior advisor DAVID PLOUFFE represent another camp. And MAYA HARRIS and TONY WEST, Harris’s sister and brother-in-law, will weigh in with their own views. The political operatives on this list all have long-term relationships with TV networks and their major talent. But unlike Biden, Harris herself doesn’t have the same deep history with the journalists now wooing her.

— What’s the goal? There has been considerable debate in Harris world about the purpose and timing of the interview. The main narrative in the political press is that Harris needs to do a lengthy serious interview with a brand-name news anchor who will push her on issues.

Harris herself has expressed disagreement with that view, we’re told by two people, telling some Democrats she doesn’t need a big showy interview. In October, Harris did a sitdown with BILL WHITAKER on “60 Minutes” and talked foreign policy. Some of the exchanges were testy and some Harris aides came away unhappy with the experience.

Former Harris comms adviser ASHLEY ETIENNE told Playbook she thought Harris should have three goals for the interview.

“The first goal would be to peel back some layers on the vice president and show some new dimensions to her,” Etienne said. “There are questions about her worldview and ethos and who she is as a leader.” The convention, she noted, dealt mostly with her bio so any interview should aim to add depth in other areas.

The second goal would be policy. “To be honest, a big audience for this is the inside-the-beltway crowd that really cares about this,” Etienne said. “So she should substantively draw some distinctions with Biden on some policy issues.”

“Third, show her visually as commander-in-chief,” she said. “I would want her to do some in her office at the White House, show her on the road, and also take you inside her home” at the Naval Observatory.

Her pick? Sit down with GAYLE KING on CBS.

— Who else is in the running? The universe of reporters in the mix for this interview is relatively small, especially if the Harris campaign is set on making it a network TV event. ABC’s DAVID MUIR, who has the highest ratings, is co-moderating the Sept. 10 debate, a fact that several TV veterans said might take him and everyone else at the network out of the running for a pre-debate interview. CBS’s NORAH O’DONNELL or NBC’s LESTER HOLT were mentioned the most by people we pinged last night.

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YOU GO TUFF GIRL !!!!

SHE'LL BE READY DAY ONE TO TAKE ON XI AND PUTIN !!!!

When you have to go to those lengths to do ONE INTERVIEW in a presidential campaign where you started almost 40 days ago, on top of not doing any substantive interview with anybody since you first ran for president in 2019, and all through your term as VP, then...

You don't deserve to be asking the American people to hire you as President, the most powerful and important job on earth.

She'll select a black media personality since it's one of her only two qualifications for the e job.

Dana Perino just said she thinks this whole business of choosing the right interview is a total head fake by Harris.

Perino thinks Harris has already recorded the interview ahead of time, to give them time to edit it, and it will likely air this weekend.

Yeah, totally above board, lol. You know if it's pre-recorded, that is exactly what happened.

(08-27-2024 09:04 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Dana Perino just said she thinks this whole business of choosing the right interview is a total head fake by Harris.

Perino thinks Harris has already recorded the interview ahead of time, to give them time to edit it, and it will likely air this weekend.

Yeah, totally above board, lol. You know if it's pre-recorded, that is exactly what happened.

This is most likely the case. No way it will be live and/or unedited. It will be a campaign ad.