Kamala Harris’ inaugural sit-down was most notable for seeming … ordinary – Times Herald Online

By DAVID BAUDER Related Press

After avoiding a probing interview by a journalist for the primary month of her sudden presidential marketing campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris’ first one Thursday was notable principally in how routine it appeared.

CNN’s Dana Bash, sitting down with Harris and operating mate Tim Walz in a Georgia restaurant, requested her about some points the place she had modified positions, the historic nature of her candidacy, what she would do in her first day as president and whether or not she’d invite a Republican to be a Cupboard member (sure, she mentioned).

What Bash didn’t ask — and the Democratic nominee didn’t volunteer — is why it took so lengthy to undergo an interview and whether or not she is going to do extra once more as a candidate.

Harris drew criticism for not doing an interview till now

With no clips from interviews or prolonged information conferences as a candidate to choose aside, Republican Donald Trump and his marketing campaign had made Harris’ failure to tackle journalists a problem in itself. She had promised to rectify that by the top of August, and made it in just below the wire.

Within the interview, taped earlier Thursday at Kim’s Cafe in Savannah, Georgia, Bash often had pressed Harris when the vice chairman did not reply a query immediately. She requested 4 occasions, for instance, about what led Harris to alter her place on fracking — a controversial strategy to extract pure gasoline from the panorama — from her temporary presidential candidacy in 2020.

“How ought to voters be among the adjustments in coverage?” Bash requested, questioning whether or not expertise led Harris down one other path. “Ought to they be fully assured that what you’re saying now’s going to be the coverage transferring ahead?”