104 days: Kamala Harris has but to do formal press convention since rising as Democratic nominee

Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 104 days because the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president with out holding an official press convention. 

Trump has held no less than six information conferences the place he took questions from the media because the starting of August. Harris has achieved a number of transient, casual press gaggles this week with the media whereas on the marketing campaign path, together with on Monday when she criticized the tone and rhetoric at Trump’s rally in New York Metropolis over the weekend. 

She gave a speech on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., outlining her path ahead for the US and the way she differs from what she calls Trump’s radical, darkish imaginative and prescient.

Harris additionally ended her streak of not showing on Fox Information final month, sitting for an interview in Pennsylvania with chief political anchor Bret Baier. She additionally did a CNN city corridor and interviews final week with NBC Information, Telemundo and CBS, in addition to a number of podcasts and native information stations this week.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump debate on the Nationwide Structure Middle in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 2024. (Getty Photographs)

Harris has stepped up her interviews in current weeks, together with doing radio hits, pleasant appearances with “The View,” Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern and different media appearances.

However as for when she’ll really do a proper press convention as a candidate, that day seems prefer it will not come, no less than whereas she’s nonetheless a candidate.

Conservative Radio Libre host Jorge Bonilla feels Harris ought to do a press convention however mentioned it’s virtually “irrelevant” as a result of she continues to get a go. 

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“She is extremely unlikely to do a press convention as a result of the media have enabled and inspired her ‘plexiglass basement’ technique, whereby she preserves the phantasm of being on the market whereas remaining wholly inaccessible to the press and due to this fact unaccountable,” Bonilla instructed Fox Information Digital.

Trump has skipped a number of potential interviews in current weeks, however he confirmed up on the annual Al Smith dinner that has traditionally featured the presidential candidates doing lighthearted roasts. Harris determined to not attend, sending a video message as a substitute.

Vice President Kamala Harris prevented questions on President Biden’s psychological decline throughout her Fox Information interview. (Fox Information Channel)

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Harris additionally did an interview final month on “60 Minutes” that has generated controversy as a result of present’s enhancing selections with a solution she gave to a query about Israel. In a preview of the interview on Oct. 6, CBS aired one portion of her reply however appeared to air a very completely different a part of it throughout the precise particular on Oct. 7.

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Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.