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Kamala Harris will do pre-taped sit down with CNN propagandist Dana Bash – Walz to ride shotgun

August 28, 2024 | | Print Article

Fulfilling her promise came with more than one big catch as Vice President Kamala Harris’ first interview as nominee took the basement campaign to the next level.

“Interesting…and embarrassing.”

Hardly a moonshot, the Democratic Party’s nominee’s insistence that she would conduct an interview before the end of August was expected to be fulfilled Thursday on CNN. However, the sit-down with the network’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash was leaning beyond softball territory as it would not only be pre-taped, it would be a tag team.

CNN reported that Harris would be joined by her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for the interview slated to premiere at 9 p.m. ET and detailed, “The 37 days since her candidacy began have generated a swell of enthusiasm and momentum for Harris, including at last week’s convention in Chicago.”

“But her lack of a formal news conference or interview has generated criticism from her Republican rivals,” the report continued. “Thursday’s interview [fulfills] a vow she made earlier in August to schedule a sit-down before the end of the month.”

Earlier in the week, even a debate remained in question as the vice president was said to have been seeking a change to the rules that had been set in advance of the Sept. 10 matchup.

Having endeavored to rebrand from an unfavorable image of word salads, cackling and failing upward since supplanting President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, the conditional manner in which Harris agreed to engage with corporate media only further fueled criticism about her own fitness for office.

Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, decried, “There is nothing more insulting than a journalist being considered safe enough for a Democrat interview. In this case, @danabashcnn is the big loser. Also, there should be TEN REAL INTERVIEWS A DAY — not one fake one each quarter. To state the obvious.”

Previously, Fox Nation host and campaign manager for then-businessman Donald Trump’s 2016 race Kellyanne Conway had poked at the controlled cloistering of Harris from unscripted moments and asserted, “There’s no question that they don’t trust Kamala Harris enough to speak regularly.”

“This is amazing to me. They’re so excited about a woman and the sexists and misogynists in her campaign are not allowing the woman to travel alone or speak on her own extemporaneously to members of the media,” she added.

In that vein, the co-interview announcement brought down extra criticism for the White House hopeful in contrast to the GOP ticket where former President Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, were campaigning both jointly and independently to advance outreach.

The extent to which Harris did not go without Walz alongside her raised eyebrows and landed the governor a new label as the vice president’s “emotional support pet.”

“The woman who wants to be the first female president of the United States can’t do an interview on her own? Interesting…and embarrassing,” commentator Katie Pavlich posted among the criticisms on X as The Federalist’s CEO Sean Davis contended, “Harris is too stupid to handle an interview by herself–even an interview with throne-sniffing regime media–so she has to bring along an emotional support pet with her for help. How embarrassing and disqualifying.”

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