After over a month of avoiding any interviews or press conferences, Kamala Harris finally has something scheduled. According to CNN, the Democrat nominee will sit down with Dana Bash for her first formal sit-down of the campaign.
Earlier on Tuesday, reports were that internal divisions were still simmering over who exactly Harris would speak to. That included the revelation that campaign staffers were probing various “journalists” about who should get the “big” interview, no doubt looking for the easiest draw.
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Things were settled over the course of the day. There’s a big catch, though. This won’t be an actual interview with Harris at the center. Instead, it’ll be a joint taping with vice presidential pick Tim Walz.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’s first sit-down interview since becoming the Democratic nominee for president will be with CNN’s @DanaBashCNN.
Her running mate, Governor Tim Walz, will join her for the interview.
It will air at 9 PM Eastern on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/zSHNTDNIfk
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 27, 2024
The first thing that comes to mind is how pathetic this is. Harris went over a month without doing an interview as both the presumptive and official nominee, and after so much bluster, the best she can do is sit down with one of her biggest fans while having her running mate there to help prop her up.
Making this a joint interview is very deliberate because they typically devolve into the interviewer asking about their personal relationship, something that is completely irrelevant to voters. Every question about how much she likes Walz and how she came around to selecting him is less time to ask her anything serious.
With that said, Bash is such a hack that she isn’t likely to ask any tough questions no matter how much time she’s given. The examples of the left-wing anchor playing mouthpiece for the Democratic Party are numerous (click here and here). The smart money is on this “interview” being nothing but a slow-pitch softball session.
Still, this is Kamala Harris we are talking about, and there’s always a chance she screws this up no matter how much the deck is stacked in her favor. Bash could ask a question meant for the vice president to knock out the park, and she might end up cackling uncontrollably instead. We’ll have to see.
For now, though, this appears to be a box-checking exercise to say she’s finally done an interview. Once this one is in the books, I wouldn’t expect her to do too many more of them. Certainly, she’s not going to sit down with someone like Lester Holt who, despite his biases, might throw a few fastballs at her.
