Vice President Kamala Harris will journey to Manhattan this week to movie three interviews, whereas her working mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), will marketing campaign in Los Angeles.
With simply 30 days till Election Day, Harris and Walz are spending invaluable time touring to deep blue strongholds as an alternative of campaigning in battleground states.
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Harris will sit for softball interviews with Democrat-allied Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert, and the hosts of The View, the New York Occasions’s Reid J. Epstein reported Sunday. Walz will seem Tuesday on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Dwell.
Whereas neither Harris nor Walz have sat for a lot of interviews, the timing of the scheduled appearances comes at a crucial time during which voters in some states are already casting votes.
Polling exhibits that Harris and former President Donald Trump are in a good race in seven of the swing states, together with North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
The Occasions reported Harris’s marketing campaign technique:
The elevated publicity on tv, radio and podcasts comes with lower than one month till Election Day as voters in a number of battleground states obtain their absentee ballots within the mail.
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Ms. Harris’s marketing campaign had already introduced that she and Mr. Walz would seem in an interview with the CBS Information program “60 Minutes” that’s set to air on Monday evening. The marketing campaign had additionally mentioned that Ms. Harris would take part on Thursday in a Univision town-hall occasion in Las Vegas.
The vp has additionally recorded an interview on Name Her Daddy, a well-liked podcast about intercourse, relationship and relationships. The interview, which focuses on abortion rights and different girls’s points, is ready to be launched on Sunday night.
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The Harris-Walz ticket has held the fewest interviews by any main get together’s presidential candidates “in fashionable U.S. historical past,” Axios reported September 19. Harris has a “worry of claiming the unsuitable factor” in “one-on-one televised interviews with journalists” the place she “tends to muddy clear concepts with phrases or phrases that should not have a exact which means,” the Occasions’ Rebecca Davis O’Brien reported.
Critics argue Harris has a “worry of claiming the unsuitable factor” as a result of she is an empty political shell with intentions to do or say no matter is required to get elected.
A near-majority (48 p.c) of Individuals imagine Harris simply says what she thinks individuals wish to hear, whereas solely 36 p.c assume she says what she believes, a latest Economist/YouGov ballot discovered.