The Harris campaign time The magazine will interview Vice President Kamala Harris for its cover story, which will be published on Monday.
Her refusal to take part in the magazine’s story underscores how little Harris appears in the media.
Harris has refused to give unscripted interviews for 23 consecutive days since joining the campaign on July 21. Media outlets have not interviewed her on television since June 24. According to reports, the last time Harris was asked a question at a solo press conference was eight months ago on December 2, 2023.
Kamala also declined to be interviewed for the Times’ cover story.
Here’s everything you need to know about her campaign. https://t.co/BQi128pv03 pic.twitter.com/AXzsW8l6l5— Leftism (@LeftismForU) August 13, 2024
of time The article, titled “Her Moment,” was an unashamed hype for Harris’ candidacy, and it caught the attention of Republicans, who mercilessly derided it as bigotry.
“If anyone watching the race had predicted this scene a month ago, no one would have believed it. But Harris has pulled off one of the swiftest shifts in the atmosphere in modern political history,” the article says. read:
With Joe Biden out and Harris in office, a second term for Donald Trump no longer seemed inevitable. Democrats who had resigned themselves to a “miserable death march” to certain defeat, as one national activist put it, felt a ray of hope turn from gloom to hope. Harris broke fundraising records, raising $310 million in July. She packed stadiums and took TikTok by storm, delivering a fresh message focused on the future rather than the past. Volunteers signed up in droves. Trump’s leads in battleground states narrowed. Over the course of a few weeks in late July and early August, Harris became a political phenomenon. “Our campaign isn’t just about fighting Donald Trump,” she told a cheering crowd in Philadelphia. “Our campaign is about fighting for the future.”
Where has Kamala Harris been all this time? For years, Democratic insiders have questioned her statesmanship, pundits have mocked her rhetoric, and polls have shown her support to be limited. Her lackluster performance in the 2020 presidential primaries and her position as Biden’s No. 2 have hardly earned her any credibility. Even as party insiders were talking this summer about potential replacements if Biden dropped out, “we were told explicitly by some major donors that she couldn’t win,” says Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, an organization that trains young Democrats to campaign. “They thought people just weren’t ready to elect someone like her.”
Judging by the past few weeks, Harris’ party underestimated her. Maybe the 2020 primary was too crowded for her talents, and maybe the vice presidency wasn’t the right fit. Suddenly, she seems to fit the situation: a former prosecutor facing off against a convicted felon, an abortion rights advocate facing off against the man who helped overturn a Republican House election for the presidency. Roe v. Wade, A new generation Democrat taking on a 78-year-old Republican. Perhaps best of all, she gave Americans the one thing they overwhelmingly said they wanted in the polls: a credible alternative to the two unpopular old men who have held the presidency for the past eight years.
