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Donald Trump has held non-stop rallies. Even after he got shot at a rally, he had another rally a few days later.
He has also done interview after interview after interview.
If you want to find Donald Trump and ask him questions, he's out there. Accessible.
After all, he is running for president.
This is not the case with Kamala Harris.
Two weeks after she officially received the Democratic nomination for president, the vice president hasn't done a single interview.
With the entire Democrat army - voters, politicians, the media - lining up behind her, asking absolutely no questions, why would she give interviews?
Why expose herself?
Fox News reports, "It has been more than two weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris emerged as the Democratic nominee. And during that time, she has not granted any interviews or held press conferences, setting a new precedent for candidate access to the press in an unprecedented election cycle."
"Harris has had a honeymoon period of sorts," the report noted. "The legacy media has showered her candidacy with glowing coverage from immediate comparisons of Barack Obama's political rise to reframing her word salads as meme royalty. She has tightened polls against former President Trump. And the honeymoon will likely continue with the selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate and the upcoming DNC convention, where candidates historically receive a bump in the polls."
"Perhaps most significantly, she has avoided scrutiny," Fox News added.
BINGO.
Harris avoiding scrutiny is key to her success.
Anyone upset that Kamala Harris has not done any interviews has never seen a Kamala Harris interview. She is substance-less, off putting and is about as likable as Hillary Clinton.
Not good.
If her campaign manager was smart, he or she shouldn't let Harris do any interviews until November. Let the establishment press just keep mythologizing her as something she is not: A leader.
Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Senator JD Vance, put it best, "This is a person who has been a presumptive Democrat nominee for 16 days. She hasn’t taken a single real question from a reporter."
He added, "The American people deserve to get to know the people who want to lead them, and I think it’s shameful for Kamala Harris, but increasingly for the media, that she is taking a basement strategy of running from reporters instead of getting in front of them and answering tough questions about her record and letting the American people know who she is."
Vance is right, but key to Harris' campaign strategy is NOT letting people know who she is.
Because who she is sucks. There's nothing there.
There's a reason you never heard much about her as vice president and to the degree that her campaign is talking about her, it's all about her career as California's attorney general.
Which was a disaster.
Her website has no policy positions. She isn't granting interviews. She isn't putting herself in a position of being challenged in any way.
The more the Harris campaign can hide their candidate, the better off they will be.
America SHOULD get to know its next potential president. In Kamala Harris' case, hiding is her best chance of becoming president.
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