Vox co-founder and New York Times columnist Ezra Klein said Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign’s strategy to keep the candidate out of the spotlight backfired during the vice presidential debate. Ta.
Harris and her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have given few interviews or appeared in the media ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Klein said this strategy “hindered” Walz from building the skills to communicate effectively on the debate stage.
“[The Harris campaign] “The Harris campaign has locked up a man who once he was released showed himself to be an incredibly effective communicator,” Klein said. “Harris doesn’t do any interviews, very few tough interviews. And they put Tim Walz on the same diet. He does all the tough interviews, he constantly fights with the media, he sharpens his rhetorical blade, he asks these questions. Unlike J.D. Vance, who understands how he can answer and test and test and test his lines, Harris not only doesn’t do that, Waltz is really good at it, so they I chose him on a certain level.”
“He hasn’t done it either. And I’m not just talking about Fox News here. Get him on a sports talk radio podcast. Put him on Rex Friedman, put him on Joe Rogan. You try to give him a ride. You try to get him to a place where there are young people that you need to persuade…but they don’t and they keep him,” Klein continued.
Klein said that just by watching Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance on the debate stage, it was “obvious” that he was participating in many interviews with opposition media. , argued that Harris and Walz could do better if they had more media appearances.
During the debate, Walz kept asking questions about why he lied about being in Hong Kong during the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, without giving a clear answer. Some in the liberal media, including MSNBC, criticized Walz for not attacking Vance enough on “Morning Joe.” (Related: CNBC host criticizes Harris’ surrogate for her ‘rope-a-dope’ strategy of running out of time before election)
Harris Walz’s ticket has fewer interviews than any other presidential candidate in modern history, Axios reported Mid-September. Harris and Walz had given seven interviews as of September 19, two months after the campaign began, while Vance and Republican candidate Donald Trump had given more than 70 interviews.
The vice president’s first interview was with CNN’s Dana Bash on Aug. 29, in which she provided detailed answers about the major policy changes for the position since her time in the Senate and as a 2020 presidential candidate. could not be provided.
The vice president also gave an interview with Oprah Winfrey and the National Association of Black Journalists in September, but he did not have concrete answers to the questions, leading some liberals and Democrats to say he was “out of line.” received criticism.
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