Harris campaign chair fumes about narrative she was afraid to do interviews: 'Completely bulls--t'

Kamala Harris run seat Jen O'Malley Dillon said during an interrogation connected Tuesday that the media disapproval of the vice president not doing capable interviews successful the aboriginal days of her run was "completely bulls---."

"I bash deliberation a narrative, 107 days … 2 weeks talking astir however she didn't bash interviews, which you cognize she was doing plenty, but we were doing successful our ain way, we had to beryllium the nominee, we had to find a moving mate, and bash a roll-out, I mean determination was each these things that you benignant of privation to origin in. But existent radical heard, successful immoderate way, that we were not going to person interviews, which was some not existent and besides truthful antagonistic to immoderate benignant of modular that was enactment connected Trump, that I deliberation that was a problem," Dillon told "Pod Save America" big Dan Pfeiffer, noting that she was not a "media hater."

Dillon and apical Harris run officials David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks, and Stephanie Cutter spoke to "Pod Save America" for their archetypal interrogation since President-elect Donald Trump's decisive triumph 3 weeks ago.

After President Biden dropped retired of the contention connected July 21, helium rapidly endorsed Harris arsenic his replacement connected the ticket. Harris did not beryllium for her archetypal interview, which was held alongside her moving mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, until August 29, 39 days aft the president's announcement.

Jen O'Malley Dillon, run manager for Democratic statesmanlike campaigner US Vice President Kamala Harris is seen earlier Harris gives her concession code astatine Howard University successful Washington, DC, November 6, 2024. ((Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images))

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"Being up against a communicative that we weren't doing anything, oregon we were acrophobic to person interviews is wholly bulls---, and besides similar took clasp a small bit, and we just, it gave america different happening we had to combat backmost for that Trump ne'er had to interest about," Dillion continued. 

She besides argued that erstwhile Harris did bash an interview, the questions were "small and processy," arsenic Cutter added the questions were "dumb." She said the questions Harris got were not "informing a voter" who was trying to larn much astir her.

Cutter said earlier connected successful the treatment that Harris got questions they knew "voters were not going to attraction about." 

"I'm not present to accidental that you cognize the full strategy was focused connected america incorrectly," she added. "That does a disservice to voters and I deliberation backmost and think, we should person signaled much of our strategy aboriginal connected astir podcasts and who we were trying to reach, but we had a constricted magnitude of clip to scope the radical we were trying to reach."

Vice President Kamala Harris' media strategy came nether sharper scrutiny aft she mislaid the predetermination to President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)  (Alex Wong)

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Harris was criticized by respective pundits and media outlets for not doing interviews aboriginal connected successful her campaign. As she started doing much interviews with accepted media outlets, arsenic good arsenic locals quality and podcast appearances, she was called retired for avoiding specifics and dodging questions.

The Harris run had besides been successful talks with Joe Rogan astir doing an interview connected his hugely fashionable podcast, but it didn't extremity up happening. Rogan had suggested that the Harris run enactment a information connected a imaginable interrogation with the podcaster astir avoiding "marijuana legalization" talk. 

In the aftermath of Harris' loss, respective outlets and governmental commentators pointed to the vice president's interrogation connected "The View," wherever she said she wouldn't person done thing antithetic from President Biden successful the past 4 years.

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