Vice President Kamala Harris’s refusal to conduct an interview since she became the presumptive presidential nominee makes her the least accessible candidate in years, a Washington Free Beacon analysis found.
Harris has conducted fewer interviews—zero, to be precise—since she became presumptive nominee than President Joe Biden had at this point of his “basement campaign” in 2020. Biden, who, in the words of the New York Times, was “walled off from voters” for much of the summer and fall of that year, still managed to squeeze in two interviews from July 21 to Aug. 5 of that year.
Harris’s strategy of avoiding media contact comes as she faces a litany of questions about her record. Spokespeople for her campaign have told various media outlets that she has reversed her position on a wide array of issues since her 2020 run.
Those individuals, not Harris herself, have told reporters that she no longer supports abolishing private health insurance, outlawing fracking, slashing the budgets of police departments, eliminating Immigration and Customs Enforcement, mandatory gun buybacks, or instituting a federal job guarantee. Nor does her campaign website have a policy section—instead it simply tells voters that “she is leading the charge to protect fundamental freedoms, including the right to an abortion and the right to vote.”
Harris’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
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