God help the United States Of America.

'Finally! Kamala Harris Has Agreed to a Joint Interview on CNN (Bringing
Her Dad to Her Job Interview)'

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'This is so weird.

Kamala Harris has been running for president for more than a month at
this point but she has yet to give a single media interview. Instead her
campaign has been coasting on a) relief it's not Biden, b) carefully
orchestrated events, and c) brat/joy vibes.

As Ed Morrisey pointed out earlier, the media pressure on the Harris
camp to actually put the candidate out there has been ramping finally
after weeks of them settling for nothing. She had, after all, promised
to give an interview before the end of August. She only had until
Saturday to keep that promise.

This afternoon CNN revealed that Harris has finally agreed to do her
first interview with their network, only it won't be just Harris it will
be a joint interview featuring Harris and Walz.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will sit with
CNN for their first joint interview on Thursday as Democrats work to
broaden their base’s excitement from last week’s Democratic National
Convention.

The interview, conducted by CNN’s chief political correspondent and
anchor Dana Bash, will air at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday. It occurs as the
candidates embark on a bus tour through the battleground state of
Georgia and marks the first time Harris has sat with a journalist for an
in-depth, on-the-record conversation since President Joe Biden dropped
his bid for a second term and endorsed her on July 21.

After 37 days as the candidate, Harris is giving a joint interview.
Could it be any more clear that Harris and her team don't believe she's
up to standing on her own? She needs Walz there as a backup in case she
goes off the rails.

Just truly funny that Harris refused to talk to the press for more than
a month because she’s such a liability, and when she finally gave in it
was for a joint interview.— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August
27, 2024

She's been Vice President for 3 1/2 years. At what point do we take the
training wheels off her bike?

Kamala clearly not ready for solo interview but totally ready to be the
leader of the free world. She's the dog that caught the car

https://t.co/TAdXD5JDVy— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) August 27, 2024

First question at the joint interview should be "Why couldn't you do
this interview solo?"

LOL, a joint interview. She simply cannot be left unattended.
https://t.co/ipJiD4IMXh— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*
(@EsotericCD) August 27, 2024

It really is like bringing your dad to a job interview.

"Vice President Harris, will you sit for an interview?"

"Only if I can bring Dad with me!" https://t.co/NztFsVwg3v— Jay Caruso
(@JayCaruso) August 27, 2024

Also, it will be taped. Why exactly?

Why did CNN agree to do a pre-taped interview with Harris and Walz
instead of going live?

And why isn't Harris doing this solo?

Dana Bash will conduct the interview, the same "anchor" who insisted
recently that Harris wasn't the Border Czar.— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV)
August 27, 2024

Even CNN, in the article announcing the interview, points out that
Harris has a track record of failure in this department.

Previous major interviews have presented a challenge for Harris. During
a 2021 sit-down with NBC’s Lester Holt, Harris responded with annoyance
when asked why she had not visited the US-Mexico border as part of her
assignment to investigate root causes of migration from Central and
South America.

“At some point, you know, we are going to the border,” Harris said in
the interview. “We’ve been to the border. So, this whole, this whole,
this whole thing about the border. We’ve been to the border. We’ve been
to the border.”

Holt responded: “You haven’t been to the border.”

Over at NY Magazine, Jonathan Chait argues that this strategy for
managing a big interview is the wrong one. Instead of putting all the
eggs in one basket, he thinks Harris should do lots of interviews so the
importance of each one is lessened.

Harris had a poor interview with Lester Holt, in which she failed to
provide a convincing answer for why she hadn’t visited the border (it
was not her job). That interview had an inordinate impact on her public
persona because there was little else to shape it.

The correct takeaway from this experience shouldn’t be that Harris needs
to avoid interviews. It’s that a dearth of interviews creates a
situation in which a single interview has an extreme effect on her
public image...

The opposite approach would be to flood the zone with interviews. Not
all of them have to be brand-name national reporters. Local news
stations have real journalists who ask questions their audiences care
about. But, yes, getting Harris out into the news several times a week
is actually a much safer strategy.

He's probably right but then again, this is similar to the argument
people were making about Joe Biden just a few months ago. If you're
worried about his age, just watch him go! Except people were watching
and what they saw was concerning to them. Similarly, the idea of getting
Harris out there several times a week or more is great until she
face-plants two days in a row. There's every reason to think it will
happen and her people know that.

Once again the Democrats are doing their best to hide the candidate from
the voters. It didn't work out with their first pick in this race but
given that we only have 10 weeks until the election, they might just
pull it off with their 2nd pick. They will unless the media takes a real
interest in vetting her as an actual candidate instead of as a marketing
brand.

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