Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms argued Friday that Vice President Kamala Harris has given very few interviews to the media It's because he's “too busy.”
Harris, 59, is more than 15 years older. Give the least number of interviews This is the most ever polled by any major party presidential candidate. He has been criticized by both allies and critics for giving only six interviews. since President Biden ended his re-election bid On July 21st.
Bottoms, a senior adviser to the Harris-Walz campaign, when asked about her reluctance to speak to the media on CNN's “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” said the vice president doesn't have time to do interviews.
“He's a very busy person,” Bottoms said. “He's vice president as well as a candidate.”
Harris's aides argued that the Democratic candidate is already effectively communicating her policy positions to voters through her campaign rallies, as part of her strategy.
“We heard her talk about her views on these policies today,” Bottoms said. “It may not have been in the format the media would prefer. It may not have been in a face-to-face interview, but we heard her talk about her stance on reproductive freedom today in Georgia.”
Harris' first interview since replacing Biden on the Democratic ticket came nearly a month after the 81-year-old president endorsed her to run in his place.
She brought along her fellow candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, 60, to sit down with her for an interview on Aug. 29. Dana Bash of CNN,
Harris also Meeting with Philadelphia's ABC station, Chiquibebi, Spanish-language radio host and a panel at a meeting National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
By comparison, former President Donald Trump, 78, has done at least three times as many interviews in the same period, some of which have lasted at least an hour — such as his recent one-on-one interview Xspaces with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk,
Meanwhile, 40-year-old Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, has become a regular guest on the program. Sunday morning network public affairs programs,
