US election: Trump accuses vice-president of hiding from scrutiny amid little opportunity for the media to question her about policies
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz will do a joint interview with CNN on Thursday. Photograph: EPA, for a joint interview Thursday in Georgia. Dana Bash, the CNN anchor who co-moderated the debate in June between president Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump, will conduct the interview.The question of where and when Ms Harris would sit for an extensive discussion with the mainstream media has started to loom over her candidacy.
Her allies say that, given the accelerated nature of her candidacy, Ms Harris is being shrewd about her media roll-out. She took advantage of last week’s prime-time Democratic National Convention to keep tight control over how she introduces herself to American voters. Ms Harris’s critics, especially Mr Trump, say she has been hiding from scrutiny. Mr Trump, who has done a flurry of interviews with a variety of traditional and nontraditional media outlets, has repeatedly accused the vice-president of not wanting to open herself up to questions.
Within the TV news world, Thursday’s interview is a coveted prize for Ms Bash and CNN, which has already played a consequential role in this year’s campaign. The network’s debate in June, with Ms Bash and Jake Tapper as moderators, set off a panic among Democrats that led to Mr Biden’s withdrawal from the race.Appearing on MSNBC, a network with a fervent liberal fan base, could have been viewed by some voters as a cop-out. Democratic leaders are wary of Fox News.
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