Presidential Candidate Books TV, Podcasts

Should you flip a TV or radio this week, don’t be stunned for those who see or hear Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Democratic presidential nominee, after largely avoiding interviews over the previous few months (she has finished just a few) is occurring an all-out media blitz this week, reserving quite a few high-profile interviews that span mediums and audiences.

On Sunday, Harris is scheduled to look on the favored Name Her Daddy podcast, with host Alex Cooper anticipated to talk with the veep about reproductive rights, amongst different matters.

On Monday, Harris is ready to look on a particular primetime version of the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes, with Invoice Whitaker grilling the candidate about her plans if she wins subsequent month. That interview was taped over the weekend.

On Tuesday, Harris will make the rounds throughout New York Metropolis, with a stay morning look in studio on ABC’s The View, adopted by a stay interview with SiriusXM star Howard Stern. Later within the afternoon, she is going to go to CBS’ Late Present With Stephen Colbert, her first late night time look since securing the Democratic nomination.

And on Thursday, Harris will journey to Las Vegas, the place she is going to take part in a TelevisaUnivision city corridor moderated by Enrique Acevedo.

Harris will not be alone in her media push. Her operating mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, appeared on Fox Information Sunday this weekend, and is scheduled to look on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! on Monday, with an interview on a preferred (however unnamed) popular culture podcast additionally set for this week.

It’s a full-on media push, with some robust interviews (60 Minutes, Fox Information Sunday and most city halls are by no means easy or simple), even when most of the interviews will probably be pleasant in tone and substance.

However it additionally underscored the worth that the Harris marketing campaign nonetheless sees in conventional shops, at the same time as they discover some fashionable podcasts as options to conventional media.

If a presidential marketing campaign is a battle for consideration, it’s a sport that former President Donald Trump is aware of find out how to play, and Harris and her group have to push to maintain their candidate in entrance of voters, through the day, in primetime, in late night time and through commutes.