Jane O’Malley Dillon, Kamala Harris’s campaign chairman, said in an interview Tuesday that media criticism of the vice president’s failure to do enough interviews in the early days of his campaign is “absolute bulls—.” was
“I think one of the narratives, 107 days…two weeks of talking about how she didn’t do interviews, which you know she was doing a lot, but we were doing it our way, nominated us. Had to be, we had to find a running mate, and roll out, I mean all these things that you kind of want to include. But the real people kind of heard that we weren’t going to do interviews were, both of which were not true and Dillon told “Pod Save America” host Dan Pfeiffer that, against any standard that could be put on Trump, that I think it was a problem.
Dillon and Harris campaign chiefs David Plouffe, Quentin Flux and Stephanie Cutter three weeks ago after President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory. spoke to “Pod Save America” for his first interview.
After President Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, he immediately endorsed Harris as his replacement on the ticket. Harris did not sit down for her first interview, which was conducted with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walls. August 29, 39 days After the announcement by the President
Jane O’Malley Dillon, campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, is seen before giving her concession speech at Howard University on November 6, 2024 in Washington, DC. ((Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images))
Harris out of spotlight, vacationing in Hawaii after election defeat
“To go against a narrative that we weren’t doing anything, or that we were afraid to be interviewed is complete bull—, and it caught on a little bit, and that’s it, it gave us another thing. “That we had to fight. Trump never had to worry about that,” Dillon continued.
He also argued that when Harris conducted the interview, the questions were “short and blunt”, as Cutter added that the questions were “dumb”. He said the questions Harris received “were not informing a voter” who was trying to learn more about him.
Cutter said earlier in the debate that Harris had questions he knew “voters wouldn’t care about.”
“I’m not here to say that you know the whole system was wrongly focused on us,” he added. “It hurts the voters and I think back and think, we should have signaled our strategy early on about podcasts and who we were trying to reach, but we didn’t have the time to reach those people. There was limited time for what we were trying to reach.”
Vice President Kamala Harris’ media strategy came under intense scrutiny after she lost the election to President-elect Donald Trump. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) (Alex Wong)
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Harris was criticized. For not being interviewed by several pundits and media outlets at the start of his campaign. As he began doing more interviews with traditional media outlets as well as local news and podcasts, he was called. Avoiding details and dodging questions.
There were also discussions with Joe Rogan about the Harris campaign. Conducting an interview on his wildly popular podcast, but it’s not over. Rogan had suggested that the Harris campaign made a condition to avoid discussing “marijuana legalization” in a potential interview with the podcaster.
After Harris’ loss, several outlets and political commentators pointed to it. Vice President Interview on “The View.” Where he said he wouldn’t have done anything different than President Biden in the last four years.
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