The Harris-Walz 'media strategy'

 Axios:

The Harris-Walz ticket is on pace to do fewer interviews and press conferences than any major party's presidential pairing in modern U.S. history.

Why it matters: Vice President Harris' team is betting she and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, can avoid many tough interviews and still win as they run down the clock to Election Day.

  • That strategy comes even as many voters say they want to learn more about Harris — and as her campaign has said she's changed many of her past liberal positions to more centrist policies.
  • The previously press-friendly Walz has joined Harris in largely dodging the media while campaigning before friendly, enthusiastic crowds.

By the numbers: Harris has been a candidate for 59 days and Walz for 44 days because of President Biden's sudden withdrawal as the Democratic nominee on July 21.

  • During those 59 days, Republicans Donald Trump and JD Vance have participated in more than 70 interviews and press conferences with TV and print reporters while Harris and Walz have taken part in seven, according to an Axios analysis.
  • Vance alone has participated in more than seven times more interviews and press conferences than Harris and Walz combined during that time.
  • ...

This is something of a replay of the 2020 Biden campaign which used Covid as an excuse for not campaigning.  In that race, the media ran its own campaign against Trump and appears to be going along with the Harris-Walz operation.  Harris is not a good spokesperson for herself or the Democrats.  She talks in word salads and mostly avoids real interviews.  Walz is a serial liar who makes up stuff.  The two of them are probably one of the worst tickets in history and if the media was doing its job of exposing that the race would not even be competitive.

See also:

Trump Recounts Lone Interaction With Walz, After Walz Asked For Help In Panicked Phone Call During 2020 Riots

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