After weeks of Republican criticism of Vice President Harris' handling of the media, the tables turned, with Harris' campaign accusing President Trump of avoiding interviews with “mainstream” media over the past month.
President Trump met with a local ABC affiliate in Nevada on September 14th. In the 30 days since then, he has spoken to mostly conservative columnists, radio hosts, television hosts, and appeared as a guest on friendly podcasts.
But President Trump has largely avoided other news outlets that the Harris campaign sought to spotlight on Monday.
“Today marks one month since Donald Trump last spoke with mainstream reporters. He has left “60 Minutes.'' He is refusing to debate, Harris campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement. . And he refuses to release his medical records. What is he hiding?” ? ”
The former president appeared several times on Fox News last month, joining opinion hosts such as Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, Greg Gutfeld and Trump's top economic official, Larry Kudlow. I had a conversation with them.
He spoke with FOX News reporter Bill Melgin about the news of the day in early October and with FOX News correspondent Alexis McAdams in September.
Last month, President Trump appeared on Hugh Hewitt's radio show and spoke with Ben Shapiro, conservative Washington Post columnist Mark Thiessen, Breitbart News, and others. Trump also spoke with NewsNation journalist Ali Bradley in early October about immigration and other news of the day.
Trump initially agreed to sit in on CBS News' “60 Minutes” for an interview, as presidential candidates traditionally do. On October 1, six days before the interview was scheduled to air, CBS News reported that he had withdrawn. The Trump campaign insisted that nothing was “planned or set in stone.”
A Trump campaign spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on the Harris campaign's criticism.
President Trump is scheduled to meet with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait this week at Chicago's Economic Club and is scheduled to participate in a Univision town hall on Wednesday. He will also attend a Georgia town hall hosted by Fox News' Harris Faulkner.
Mr. Trump has given few interviews to conservative media in recent weeks, but Ms. Harris has been giving interviews in an effort to appeal to more voters in a close race.
Harris appeared last week on the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” ABC's “The View” and Howard Stern's radio show, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” She met with two Black American media outlets over the weekend, and on Monday her campaign announced that she had agreed to her campaign's first interview with Fox News.
Fox anchor Bret Baier is scheduled to interview Harris on Wednesday during a trip to battleground Pennsylvania. Harris campaign aides pointed to the interview as proof that only one candidate is willing to take tough questions.
Harris campaign spokesperson Ian Sams told ** has passed,'' he posted. Harris will also appear on Fox. ”
The Harris campaign has been working in recent days to make Trump's fitness for office and mental acuity a bigger issue in the upcoming election.
Harris and her team have criticized Trump for withdrawing from “60 Minutes” and repeatedly pressured the former president to re-enter the debate, but over the weekend the vice president released her medical records. and questioned why Mr. Trump hasn't done the same.
Opinion polls released in recent days show that Trump is closing the gap with Harris nationally, and that the two candidates are still in close races in seven battleground states that are likely to decide the outcome of the election. There is.
