Quote:Kamala Harris has now been in the presidential race for over a month. During that time she has done no interviews and press conferences, instead relying on anonymous aides to leak her supposed positions to the press.

Time is now running out on her game of hide-and-seek. Speaking to the press in early August, Harris told reporters that she would do a sit-down interview "before the end of the month." With that deadline fast approaching, it's becoming more and more obvious she's terrified to follow through.

According to Politico, the vice president has her handlers using a new strategy to see who she'll finally talk to.

That’s four days from now, on Saturday. Of course, “scheduled” doesn’t mean the interview will happen by then. But with the Democratic nominee generally hitting all her marks since entering the race, her scripted, light-on-policy candidacy has become an issue. And questions about when, where and with whom Harris will finally sit down are dominating the inside conversation this week. (DONALD TRUMP has stepped up the pace of his interviews, partially to highlight the gap.)

Harris campaign staff have been asking reporters who they think she should talk to. Behind the scenes, TV producers from big name anchors have been calling the campaign to pitch their talent as the person she has to do it with.

Pathetic doesn't even begin to describe this. We are talking about the current vice president of the United States. This is someone who has a record a mile long and years in the public eye. It should not be difficult for her to sit down with multiple interviewers at this point. That's especially true given anyone she chooses will shower here with softballs.

She's running scared, trying to prime the pump to get the absolute easiest interview possible. By treating this like some major national event and essentially starting a bidding war for the interview, already biased media outlets will feel even more pressure to go easy on her. At this point, you can expect this interview to be questions about what kind of ice cream she likes and how supposedly historic her candidacy is. It's going to be an absolute joke led by an absolute joke of a journalist.

Further, as Politico notes above, she left herself wiggle room in her commitment to sit for an interview by the end of the month. She could end up scheduling it for mid-September and claim that's what she meant all along as long as it's on the books before the end of August.

Does any of this strike you as a show of confidence? We keep being told Harris' campaign is going so incredibly well that she's now coasting to victory. Yet, with over two months left until election day, she's twisting in the wind a bit, doing her best to avoid fulfilling even the most basic obligations of a candidate.

I'd suggest there's more chaos inside the Harris campaign than anyone wants to admit. This has a "dog caught the car" feeling to it. She successfully pushed Joe Biden out in unprecedented fashion, but being the nominee is more than teleprompter speeches. That reality is facing Harris head-on, and she's trembling in response.

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New York Times says Kamala has 'avoided' press, demands answers on policy issues

Quote:As Vice President Kamala Harris has largely avoided the press for over a month now since becoming the Democratic nominee, the New York Times has called out her lack of policy prescriptions as well as her refusal to the media in a long-form interview or press conference.

In an article released on Tuesday, the Times states, "Kamala Harris has largely avoided answering questions since her campaign began: She hasn’t participated in a town hall or given an extended media interview." The "21 Questions for Harris" piece begins with the criticism of the nominee, who has provided few and far between answers about policy positions as well as what she exactly plans to do when she gets into office.

The Times goes on to ask nearly two dozen questions to Harris, proposing them as ideas for an interview that the Harris campaign says will happen soon. The outlet split the questions up into four categories, the economy, social issues, foreign policy, as well as "politics and more."

One economic question asked by the outlet had to do with Harris' proposed price control policies that brought swift backlash from media on the right and on the left, with one CNN contributor calling the proposal similar to policies in "Venezuela, Argentina, [and] the Soviet Union.”

Another asked her about why she has flipped on immigration policy, previously saying that she called for decriminalizing crossing the border illegally. The question proposed by the outlet states, "You once called for decriminalizing illegal border crossings. Now you are an immigration hawk who promises to secure the border better than Donald Trump would. Can you explain your evolution?"

Despite some of Harris' claims on getting tough on the border, her campaign and current administration has already backed legislative action that allows for nearly any illegal immigrant to come into the country and claim asylum, even if the person in question has no valid asylum claim. This same proposal from the Biden-Harris administration reportedly would still allow about 1.5 illegal immigrants into the country each year. She has also called the border wall a "vanity project" for Trump and is now claiming that she is for building up the border wall.

The outlet also asked about her previous claims, saying that more police do not make neighborhoods and communities safer, a point connected to the Defund the Police Movement. Harris has previously praised the activist movement as well as claimed that in the US, we can "get to a point where communities, frankly, don't need a law enforcement response to what's happening in their communities because they are safe communities."

Isn't there another thread on this same subject?

In that one, I mentioned that Dana Perino thinks all this talk about asking reporters for suggestions is a Harris head fake, that she likely has already recorded the interview to air this coming weekend, giving her and the reporter time to edit it.

tellin' ya ... I want to see that shite stain in a white pantsuit ... hill-lair-liar can relate...