By Dave Andrusko
Maybe it’s because she was busy whittling down her list of possible vice presidential running mates (now said to be down to two), but more likely the people surrounding Kamala Harris realize the longer she can go with giving an interview or making an unscripted appearance, the better. The Vice President is not fast on her feet and some of her answers have been turned into devastating memes.
The contrast with pro-life former President Donald Trump is night and day. He is absolutely fearless.
Last week Trump was invited to participate in a Q&A session with a panel of political journalists at a conference of the National Association of Black Journalists. ABC News senior congressional correspondent, Rachel Scott, one of the moderators, started off without even pretending she would give Trump a chance. Talk about walking into the lion’s den.
“It’s refreshing to see a presidential candidate who’s willing to go in front of the media, something that Donald Trump knew would be a tough interview,” Sen. Tom Cotton said on CNN last Wednesday. “It turned out to be a hostile, adversarial interview, but he’s been doing that for nine years,” Cotton said. “Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has been hiding out for the 10 days that she’s been a nominee.”
However, according to Newsweek’s Carlo Versano, there is a benign explanation
To some Democratic analysts and talking heads, Harris’ lack of interviews or press conferences suggests an astute media strategy in which she doesn’t want to do anything to take attention away from Trump. …
“The vice president is showing all of us that you don’t need to do high-profile interviews or press conferences in order to get attention from the media or from voters,” Democratic strategist Christy Setzer told The Hill.
Meanwhile, Harris’s choice of a vice presidential running mate is fraught with booby traps, according to the New York Times.
Reid J. Epstein, Theodore Schleifer, and Nick Corasaniti tell us
The competitive, divisive primary that many Democrats long wanted to avoid has arrived anyway — playing out largely behind closed doors in a fight over the bottom of the ticket.
The final stage of the campaign to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate reached something of an ugly phase in recent days as donors, interest groups and political rivals from the party’s moderate and progressive wings lobbied for their preferred candidates and passed around memos debating the contenders’ political weaknesses with key demographics.
This assumes that there is a “moderate” remaining—or ever had been in the running. They are all pro-abortion with differences so small you couldn’t slip a piece of rice paper between them.
Tomorrow, Harris is expected to announce her choice. We will have full coverage here at National Right to Life.