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Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 50 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference.
Under pressure to sit down for a substantive interview after weeks of stonewalling, Harris finally ended her interview drought last month when she was joined by running mate Tim Walz for a pre-taped piece with CNN’s Dana Bash last Thursday in Georgia that was a far cry from a traditional press conference.
“She should absolutely hold regular press conferences. Americans have the right and need to know what her policy stances are,” conservative influencer Tim Young told Fox News Digital.
“Anyone who wants to lead the free world should be able to handle questions from the press,” Young continued. “If Kamala can’t handle real questions from the press, she absolutely can’t handle negotiations with foreign leaders.”
During the CNN interview, Harris defended some of her noted policy flip-flops on issues like fracking and immigration, saying her “values” hadn’t changed. She was also pressed on whether she had regrets about defending President Biden’s mental acuity after his debate, given he dropped out of the race less than a month later. She also said she wanted to “turn the page on the last decade of what I believe has been contrary to where the spirit of our country really lies.”
Bash pointed out Harris had been vice president for three-and-a-half of those years, but Harris countered she meant moving on from this “era,” seemingly referring to the political rise of Donald Trump that began in 2015.
Harris also sat for two taped radio interviews last week, one of which has yet to air.
As to when she’ll actually do a formal press conference, that day may never come, at least while she’s still a candidate.
“You will not see one press conference from her in the next 75 days until Election Day,” Fox News contributor Joe Concha predicted earlier last month.
Conservative Radio Libre host Jorge Bonilla feels Harris should do a press conference but said it’s almost “irrelevant” because she continues to get a pass.
“She is highly unlikely to do a press conference because the media have enabled and encouraged her ‘plexiglass basement’ strategy, wherein she preserves the illusion of being out there while remaining wholly inaccessible to the press and therefore unaccountable,” Bonilla told Fox News Digital.
