Harris adviser brushes off lack of interviews: 'She's a very busy person'

A elder advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris suggested she's excessively "busy" to speech to the property much often arsenic she enters the last weeks of the 2024 statesmanlike election. 

Former Atlanta mayor-turned-prominent Harris surrogate Keisha Lance Bottoms was pressed by CNN's Jake Tapper astir however the vice president hasn't been "sitting down for regular interviews oregon fielding questions from the press," peculiarly successful examination to her GOP rival, former President Trump. 

"Why?" Tapper asked. "Why is she not doing much interviews to speech astir her policies and reply immoderate of the questions that voters person astir her policies and her alteration connected her views connected immoderate of them?

"Well, Jake, she’s done interviews," Lance-Bottoms pushed back. "And I cognize that we would love- oregon you would emotion to spot her beryllium down each azygous time with CNN and bash interviews. But it’s that she’s a precise engaged person. She’s the vice president arsenic good arsenic a candidate." 

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Harris-Walz run elder advisor Keisha Lance Bottoms defended the vice president arsenic she was pressed implicit the Democratic nominee not granting much interviews. (Screenshot/CNN)

"And we heard her contiguous speech astir her views connected these policies," she continued. "It whitethorn not beryllium successful the format that the media would like. It whitethorn not beryllium that she’s sitting down doing a one-on-one interview, but we heard her contiguous successful Georgia speech astir her stance connected reproductive state and if she's elected arsenic president of the United States, however she would usage the powerfulness of the pen to marque definite that these freedoms are protected."

Harris and her moving mate, Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., person done a combined 15 interviews since past month, portion Trump and his moving mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, person done a combined 55. 

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Other news outlets, including The New York Times and Axios, person been calling retired Harris and Walz for dodging the media, noting that Harris has been much reclusive successful the archetypal 2 months of her thriving run than President Biden was successful the past 2 months of his faltering campaign.  

US Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris holds a treatment hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, connected September 17, 2024. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Most recently, Harris sat down for a lengthy speech with Oprah Winfrey alongside a roster of A-list supporters including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Jennifer Lopez.

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Harris has yet to clasp a ceremonial property league since she emerged arsenic the Democratic nominee. Meanwhile, Trump has held respective successful caller weeks. 

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