I am absolutely stunned!

'Harris Uses Criteria of ‘Race’ in Selection of Interview Host'

<https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/27/report-harris-uses-criteria-of-race-in-selection-of-interview-host/>

'“Race and gender” are key criteria in Vice President Kamala Harris’s
selection of a media personality to host her first sit down interview
since joining the presidential race, a report Monday in Politico
Playbook revealed.

The criteria spotlights the close-mindedness of Harris’s world view, as
she attempts to rally support from rural white voters in swing states.
The demographic is key to winning the 2024 presidential election,
political experts believe.

Harris will purportedly sit for an interview this week as part of her
campaign’s ramped-up strategy heading into the post-Labor Day push,
Axios reported, but questions remain about who she will select to host
the interview.'

'“Almost everyone we talked to said Harris will consider race and gender
in making her choice, and that she would be keen to sit down with a
Black and/or female reporter,” Playbook reported Tuesday.

Who Harris should grant the interview to is raising tensions within the
Harris campaign, Playbook revealed:

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.

Harris has not held an unscripted press conference or unscripted
sit-down interview about policy solutions for 37 days since joining the
presidential race. The media have not interviewed Harris on television
since June 24, 2024, and the last time the press reportedly questioned
her at a solo news conference was eight months ago, on December 2, 2023.

A recent poll found 89 percent of Americans said it’s either “very” or
“somewhat” important a presidential candidate answer questions from the
press.

Harris might be avoiding the media for two reasons. First, the Harris
campaign might be worried about its candidate’s likability and her
ability to speak off the cuff about policies without delivering a
devastating gaffe. Here is a sampling of Harris’s word salads.

Second, the Harris campaign is stuck in a “catch-22.” Speaking about
policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security would undermine
the Biden-Harris administration’s claim of having solved those key
issues. Yet Harris must tout the administration’s policy successes to
validate her record and candidacy. More is here on Harris’s radical
record.'