SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will sit down Thursday for their first televised interview of their presidential campaign as the pair travel south- east Georgia by bus.
The interview with CNN’s Dana Bash will give Harris a chance to shake off criticism that he strayed from an unregulated environment, while giving him a new platform to outline his campaign and test his political mettle. ahead of the upcoming debate with former President Donald Trump for September. . 10. But it’s also risky as his team tries to increase the speed of ticket movement after Joe Biden’s exit from last week’s Democratic National Convention.
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Collective bargaining in an election year is a political issue; Biden and Harris, Trump and Mike Pence, Barack Obama and Biden – they all did it at the same time in the race. The difference is that all the other candidates had done one-on-one interviews, too. Harris hasn’t done a serious interview since he became his party’s nominee five weeks ago, despite his long tenure as Biden’s running mate.
Harris and Walz are making themselves known to voters, unlike Trump and Biden who people had close awareness and opinions about.
The CNN interview will begin at 9pm EDT. It is scheduled to be published at 1:45 pm EDT during his two-day bus tour of southeast Georgia that ends with an evening meeting in Savannah. Harris campaign officials believe that in order to win the state over Trump in November, he must tap into GOP strongholds across the country.
Harris, during his time as vice president, has done on-camera and press interviews with The Associated Press and many other outlets, which is more than the president — except for the latest news explosion. Biden after his poor performance in the debate that affected. from the end of his campaign.
Harris’ lack of access to the media over the past month has become one of the key lines of attack for Republicans. The Trump campaign has kept track of the number of days it has gone as a candidate without conducting an audit. On Wednesday, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s former press secretary, suggested that Harris needed a “babysitter” and that’s why Walz would be there.
“They know that Kamala Harris will not be able to negotiate on her own. There is not much confidence in someone who can be the leader of the free world and ask people to make him the president of the United States he can’t even sit down (for) interviews,” he said on “Fox & Friends.”
Trump, meanwhile, has focused on conservative media in his interviews, though he has held open press conferences in recent weeks as he seeks to push back the spotlight on Harris’ rise. you said it.
After the CNN interview, Walz will disembark and Harris will continue the bus tour alone, heading to the conference before returning to Washington. On Wednesday, they hung out with the high school’s marching band to cheer on students, and stopped at a Savannah barbecue restaurant.
Harris’ campaign communications director, Michael Tyler, said the bus tours provide “an opportunity to reach places we don’t often go (and) make sure we’re competing with the whole community.”
The campaign wants the events to sway voters in GOP-leaning areas who normally don’t see the candidates, and hopes the interviews will drive the viral season that has reduced media coverage to reach voters across the country. .
Autopsies are meant to be moments where patients can learn “not just what they represent, but what kind of people they are,” Tyler said.
Harris has another campaign on Labor Day with Biden in Detroit and Pittsburgh with the election just over 70 days away. The first mail-in ballots are mailed to voters in just two weeks.
Democrats’ enthusiasm for their election in November has increased over the past few months, according to Gallup polls. About 8 in 10 Democrats now say they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual, compared with 55 percent in March.
This gives them a boost that they didn’t have earlier this year. Republican enthusiasm has increased at the same time, with nearly two-thirds of Republicans now saying they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual.
Long reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Amelia Thomson DeVeaux in Washington contributed to this report.
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