The left and the media keep justifying presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris not talking to the press.
“I imagine she will [do interviews]. I don’t know. But the way you communicate presidential campaigns is also a little different, in the TikTok era from the way it was in the network television…in the network TV era. And you also sit down with different kinds of people that in the TikTok era from what you did — you know, it — look. this is television. I don’t want to say anything disrespectful of television. But if we were on radio in 1950, wondering when is the candidate going to sit next to — next — his or her next interview on the mutual broadcasting system, they’d say, well, there’s this thing called television that has come along and it may be changing politics. And TikTok has done the same thing.
STEELE: “I want to shift gears on that a little bit, because I really— it would have struck me since Donald Trump’s press conference is the, sort of highbrow nature of the press coming out, lane Harris, saying what she, in my view, whining that she doesn’t talk to us, she hasn’t done a sit down with us, she has done interviews with us, and I watched that press conference and I go, well, you start actually asking real questions of Donald Trump and pressing him then that sort of creates a space of violence, but then I look at polling. You have the “New York Times” Siena poll showing Harris in battleground states, Michigan she is up by 44, Pennsylvania come up by 44, and Wisconsin up by four, 50-46 all within the margin of error, so, at one point you say strategically, why do I need to talk to you right now?”
I see people passing around a video of Peter Doocy reporting that Harris ditched her press pool.
CONTEXT: The vice president does not have a dedicated permanent pool. Harris is the only presumptive presidential candidate. She won’t get an official press pool until she becomes the official candidate after the convention.
They agreed in principle to a pool, but it’s not the same as a presidential pool.
I agree the move to ditch the pool looks bad, but it’s not shocking.
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