Harris’s Pre-Taped CNN Interview Will Include Walz

Harris’s Pre-Taped CNN Interview Will Include Walz

LOL! I’ll be gone for this. Oh darn! #sarcasm

Kamala Harris’s first interview will take place on CNN with Dana Bash. It will be pre-taped and include Tim Walz.

JUST ANNOUNCED: VP Kamala Harris & Gov. Tim Walz will exclusively join @DanaBashCNN for their first joint interview since accepting the Democratic nomination. Watch on 8/29 at 9pET/PT on @CNN, @CNNi, @CNNEE, CNN Max, https://t.co/dOLGQHu7eC & CNN apps. https://t.co/UB2Tg12v16 pic.twitter.com/j93uUYcOZl

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) August 27, 2024

#BREAKING: CNN announces that they have won the Kamala Harris interview sweepstakes, will sit down on Thursday with the Vice President and her running mate, Democrat Governor Tim Walz (MN).

Interview to air in full Thursday nighat 9pm Eastern. pic.twitter.com/PzGRCrbeHg

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 27, 2024

Can…can she not interview on her own?

Duh, of course, she can’t do the interview alone! Usually, I wouldn’t care that the interview is pre-taped. Aren’t most sit-down interviews pre-taped?

But considering how much the media has pumped up Harris…the pre-tape is suspicious because you know CNN and Harris’s handlers will edit the interview to make her look and sound normal.

They’ll do the same with Walz.

How do we know this? Well….

The fact that there is so much internal turmoil over doing A SINGLE INTERVIEW is itself deeply revealing. This is not a “big decision.” It exposes their lack of confidence in her and is making something that should be routine into a high stakes event. https://t.co/OaoGghsngX

— Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 (@marcthiessen) August 27, 2024

Harris promised to have an interview by the end of the month.

Marc is correct. The campaign had a hard time picking the correct network and interviewer for Harris (emphasis mine):

— 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.

Well, duh, considering Harris has no platform and is flipping and flopping on any issue that comes up.

Bash likely won’t press Harris hard, considering it’s an interview with Walz.

Joint interviews happen during the campaign, but as Politico wrote, those “tend to be softer and focus more on the relationship between the two candidates.”

I mean, I don’t expect a solo Harris interview to be hard-hitting, especially on a network like CNN, but a joint interview likely won’t be serious at all.

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