Harris campaign chair: Narrative about dodging interviews was 'completely bulls‑‑‑' [View all]

Source: The Hill

11/26/24 5:17 PM ET


A campaign chair for Vice President Harris’s 2024 presidential bid said the notion that she dodged interviews during the campaign was “completely bulls‑‑‑.”

“I think back and think we should have signaled more of our strategy early on about podcasts and who we were [trying to] reach and — but we had a limited amount of time to reach the people [we were trying to] reach and we were [trying to] go to them,” Harris campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said on Tuesday’s “Pod Save America” episode. “But being up against a narrative that we weren’t doing anything or we were afraid to have interviews, is completely bulls‑‑‑,” she continued.

Harris faced increasing pressure to sit for interviews after she ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket. Her first major interview after becoming the party’s nominee, alongside her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, came in late August with CNN’s Dana Bash.

“Real people heard in some way that we were not going to have interviews, which was both not true and also so counter to any kind of standard that was put on [President-elect Trump] that I think that was a problem,” O’Malley Dillon said in her “Pod Save America” appearance.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5011053-harris-campaign-chair-narrative-about-dodging-interviews-was-completely-bull-t/