Anxious Kamala Harris is on track to have fewest interviews of any nominee and even Dems are nervous

Kamala Harris is giving the press — and Americans — the silent treatment.The vice president is on track to grant the fewest interviews of any major party’s presidential nominee ever — and it’s not just because she entered the race historically late.Since President Biden ended his re-election bid July 21, his 59-year-old No.2 has given just six sitdowns, leaving both her allies and critics wanting more.

Harris has scrupulously picked her spots, opting for relatively friendly environments like an Aug.29 interview with CNN’s Dana Bash where she was joined by her running mate, Minnesota Gov.

Tim Walz.She has also sat down with Philadelphia’s ABC station, Spanish-language radio host Chiquibaby, and a panel at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).

By comparison, former President Donald Trump has done at least three times as many interviews in the same period, with some lasting at least an hour – such as his recent one-on-one over X Spaces with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.He and his running mate Sen.

JD Vance (R-Ohio) have highlighted Harris’ silence by doing more meetings with the press, with Vance becoming a regular guest on the Sunday morning network public affairs programs.Even in Harris’ limited public availability, she has been unable to avoid awkward moments and the “word salad” for which her critics have so regularly mocked her.In the CNN interview, Harris responded to Bash’s first question — asking her to explain the many apparent policy reversals from her failed 2020 run for the White House — by insisting “my values have not changed,” providing the Trump campaign with yet another opening to attack her.When asked a question about support for slavery reparations by the NABJ panel, she answered thus: “We need to speak truth about the generational impact of our history, in terms of the generational impact of slavery, the generational impact of redlining, of Jim Crow laws.I could go on and on a...