Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t show up to the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention on Wednesday. You might not have noticed, buried in the stunned voices at former President Donald Trump’s criticism of her. About half of the people I spoke to in Washington on Thursday assumed she’d met there or Zoomed in for a video interview. But that wasn’t the case.
Harris cited a number of reasons for this, including the funeral of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and her busy schedule, but the incident is not the only issue. Harris has not given a single full interview since her unceremonious coronation 12 days ago. She’s given a few speeches and read lines off a teleprompter, but no actual interviews.
Polls have shown Ms Harris narrowing Mr Trump’s lead, and some predict she could overtake him in battleground states where he previously led Mr Biden.
It may be hard to remember in the frenetic pace of American politics, but as recently as 13 days ago, people were saying that the most important thing a presidential candidate could do was answer tough questions in an unscripted environment. And that’s true, by the way. Reading scripted speeches and anonymous aides’ comments tells us a much better picture of what a candidate is really like.
But never mind that now. That was the rule when the American press wanted another candidate to beat Trump. Now the goal is simply to beat Trump.
We’ve seen this all before, when the term “basement campaign” was used to describe Joe Biden’s shunning of journalists and even his supporters in 2020. That year, we watched as a candidate literally emerged from his basement into our living rooms to accept the nomination in an empty auditorium, while his friends in the media covered for him and relentlessly attacked Trump while blaming him for the coronavirus, and it worked.
Now we can’t blame COVID-19. Nor age or dementia or “the stutter.” This time, we’re faced with a press corps that knows Harris is just too bad.
With NBC’s Lester Holt It could generate bad headlines for years to come.
And so far, it’s working well. Polls show Harris narrowing her lead over Trump, and some even suggest she could overtake him in battleground states where Biden previously held the lead. Harris delivers a calm, carefully calibrated speech while her media colleagues call Trump Hitler — this time because she called him Hitler. Advertised she Indian heritage She First entered politics (“I respect both, but she clearly doesn’t”);
How long can she hide? She has another week of Olympic coverage, then the honeymoon period begins again with the announcement of her vice presidential nominee, and then the Democratic National Convention, which is under threat from an escalating Middle East war yet still keeps the candidate wrapped in a meticulously choreographed cocoon.
And then it’s September.
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The New York Times:Pro-Palestinian groups are trying to block Harris’ possible bid for Josh Shapiro as vice president.
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Daily Caller: Shapiro targeted counselors who would not transition children’s genders.
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Women from Jennifer Aniston down have publicly lamented that they “put careers over family” or “waited too long.” Time and time again, we hear good people say they wish someone had warned them. In all the lamentation and frustration over J.D. Vance jokes, it’s easy to forget that America has a birth rate problem, and that the underlying problem is cultural. Of course, thoughtful conversations are never going to happen when there’s an opportunity to criticize the Republican Party with “Yass Queen.” Lexie Boxzi writes:
The most uncomfortable topics are often the most important ones: Young people’s lack of desire to start a family suggests a lack of hope for the future, a sentiment that is foreign to America.I saw this firsthand as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, an elite, childless institution. I wrote columns for the campus newspaper expressing concerns about hookup culture, transactional relationships, and the low priority given to dating. These columns often received the most backlash. In a pre-professional culture like Penn, asserting that marriage and family are one’s greatest contributions to society was often taboo, especially for women. But why?
