Kamala Harris launches media blitz with “60 Minutes” and podcast interviews

Kamala Harris launched a caller media blitz connected Monday with appearances connected “60 Minutes” and different shows aimed astatine a wide scope of demographic groups arsenic the statesmanlike run enters the last period earlier Election Day.

The Democratic nominee told the venerable CBS News programme that she has a amended economical program for the mediate class than erstwhile President Trump, who backed retired of a akin interrogation with the show.

“My economical program would strenghen our ecoomy,” Harris told analogous Bill Whitaker. “His would wounded it,”

Harris, who has faced disapproval implicit her comparatively paltry fig of interviews since launching her run successful July, parried Whitaker’s assertive but respectful questioning astir however realistic her plans are.

“I’m going to marque definite that the richest among america who tin affor ti t wage their just share,” Harris said. “It is not close that teachers, nurses and firefighters are paying a hihger taxation complaint than billionaires and the biggest corporations.”

The “60 Minutes” interrogation was acceptable to aerial successful afloat astatine 8 p.m. Monday night. The amusement typically does a statesmanlike predetermination peculiar including interviews with some candidates, but Trump backed retired aft initially accepting the request from CBS, the web said.

Harris besides defended the U.S. confederation with Israel, though she avoided declaring that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is simply a “real, adjacent ally.”

“With each owed respect, the amended question is whether we person an important confederation betwixt the American and the Israeli people,” Harris said. “And the reply to that question yes.”

Harris besides plans a flurry of media sit-downs with a divers radical of non-traditional media this week arsenic aboriginal voting ramps up crossed the federation and the predetermination remains a virtual dormant heat.

On Tuesday, she volition bash interviews with shock jock Howard Stern, whose amusement appeals to a predominantly antheral assemblage arsenic good arsenic an quality connected the famously female-centric “The View” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

The vice president volition enactment successful a municipality hall-style event connected Thursday hosted by Univision successful Las Vegas aimed astatine Latino voters, a cardinal Democratic-leaning constituency successful respective plaything states.

Harris kicked disconnected the high-octane week with an interrogation connected the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, which has an assemblage of millions of mostly young women.

She slammed Republican efforts to shame women similar her who bash not person biologic children, a tack that JD Vance utilized successful his infamous barb against “childless feline ladies.”

“I conscionable deliberation it’s mean and mean-spirited,” said Harris, who is simply a stepmother to the 2 children of her husband, Doug Emhoff. “We each person our household by humor and past we person our household by love. And I person both. And I see it to beryllium a existent blessing.”

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Donald Trump arrives to a run rally successful Juneau, Wisconsin connected Sunday. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Harris’ run hopes to enactment to furniture complaints that she has shied distant from pugnacious questioning. She is besides aiming to grow her gaping pb implicit Trump with pistillate voters portion seeking to blunt his vantage with men and those without a assemblage degree.

Trump connected the different manus has stayed wrong his right-wing comfortableness zone, doing regular rallies to adoring and ample crowds of MAGA loyalists and granting interviews astir exclusively to right-wing media outlets.

His run believes his way to triumph includes maximizing his enactment from his basal of working-class achromatic men portion picking disconnected a important chunk of backing from different demographics with pugnacious speech connected hot-button issues similar crime, ostentation and particularly immigration.

In a chummy interrogation with blimpish big Hugh Hewitt connected Monday, Trump accused Harris of allowing immigrants who person a genetic predisposition to transgression behavior to participate the U.S.

“We got a batch of atrocious genes successful our state close now,” said Trump, portion spewing mendacious and misleading figures astir immigrants. “They … had 425,000 radical travel into our state that shouldn’t beryllium here, that are criminals.”