Kamala Harris under scrutiny without the glamor of showbiz and scripted rallies | US News
The headline was that it happened at all.
It took Kamala Harris five weeks from the day she took the call from Joe Biden to finally sit down for an extended interview.
On one view – a common one – it’s an astonishing length of time for a public to be kept waiting for proper, independent, scrutiny of a candidate to be their president.
Up until now, we’ve had the party-packaged version rolled out through convention and teleprompted rallies.
The launch, laced with showbiz, has worked for them.
Pic: AP
Support surging behind a pre-interviewed Ms Harris will weigh heavily in the calculations of Democratic campaign managers balancing their instinct for control with necessary exposure to media questioning.
The questions many had about Ms Harris were around her politics and how they had changed on a number of key election issues, like fracking and decriminalising illegal entry at the US border.
It feeds opposition lines of attack that, as a public servant, she lacks authenticity.
Her answer, repeated several times, was that her “values” hadn’t changed.
She will hope it flies in places like the must-win state of Pennsylvania, where fracking is a job creator and voters will ponder her new-found support for it.
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The headline was that it happened at all.
It took Kamala Harris five weeks from the day she took the call from Joe Biden to finally sit down for an extended interview.
On one view – a common one – it’s an astonishing length of time for a public to be kept waiting for proper, independent, scrutiny of a candidate to be their president.
Up until now, we’ve had the party-packaged version rolled out through convention and teleprompted rallies.
The launch, laced with showbiz, has worked for them.
Pic: AP
Support surging behind a pre-interviewed Ms Harris will weigh heavily in the calculations of Democratic campaign managers balancing their instinct for control with necessary exposure to media questioning.
The questions many had about Ms Harris were around her politics and how they had changed on a number of key election issues, like fracking and decriminalising illegal entry at the US border.
It feeds opposition lines of attack that, as a public servant, she lacks authenticity.
Her answer, repeated several times, was that her “values” hadn’t changed.
She will hope it flies in places like the must-win state of Pennsylvania, where fracking is a job creator and voters will ponder her new-found support for it.
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