Harris campaign aide argues voters 'shouldn't read too much' into lack of interviews

Brian Fallon, the Harris campaign's elder advisor for communications, said during a caller interrogation with Politico that voters and the media shouldn't "read excessively overmuch into" Vice President Kamala Harris's deficiency of interviews. 

"Number one, radical should not work excessively overmuch into what immoderate person described arsenic a shortage oregon a deficiency of interviews successful the archetypal six weeks of the campaign," Fallon told Politico's Eugene Daniels. 

Harris spoke to the National Association of Black Journalists connected Tuesday successful her 2nd large-profile interrogation since emerging arsenic the nominee. Harris has besides spoken to section vigor stations successful caller weeks, successful summation to sitting down with Oprah Winfrey, who endorsed her for president astatine the DNC.

"She had a batch of enactment that she had to bash successful a precise truncated docket conscionable to get the run disconnected the ground," Fallon said. 

Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris (L) joins U.S. tv shaper Oprah Winfrey astatine a 'Unite for America' unrecorded streaming rally successful Farmington Hills, Michigan, connected September 19, 2024. ((Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images))

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Fallon besides argued that Harris' media appearances arsenic vice president spoke to what voters should expect of her property interviews successful the remaining 50 days until Election Day.

"Because Kirsten Allen, who has tally her communications bureau connected the authoritative side, had her doing a dense rotation of daytime speech shows, nationalist people interviews with magazines, nationalist sit-downs with tv outlets similar 60 Minutes precocious past year, cablegram hits — she did similar 80-plus interviews successful the archetypal 7 months of this year. And truthful that is simply a default mounting for Kamala Harris successful presumption of media engagement," Fallon said. 

Fallon added, "the remaining 50 days of this run volition look like… thing person to that." 

Senior Harris advisor Keisha Lance Bottoms precocious brushed disconnected Harris' deficiency of press interviews during an interrogation with CNN's Jake Tapper. 

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"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?" Tapper asked.

"Well, Jake, she’s done interviews," Lance-Bottoms responded. "And I cognize that we would emotion - 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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Fallon besides said Harris intended to bash a batch of podcast and late-night interviews. 

"I deliberation we’ll premix successful nationalist property outlets. I deliberation we’ll bash a batch of, you know, digital-first benignant of opportunities, podcasts, precocious nighttime shows, daytime speech shows," Fallon said.