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I suspect there is a feeling in her campaign that [speaking to the media] would stall the momentum she's achieved over the past few weeks. It's a mistake,
Attacks she can handle. Because that comes with the territory. She seems to have an especially thick skin. But bad press that emanates from ill-prepared remarks can take the wind out of her campaign. And then she will be on the offensive for a good long time!"
My gut feeling is she's waiting till she's got something to say before meeting with the media,
What kind of election can you have if your own presidential candidate won't actually answer the tough questions?"
It's led Republican vice presidential candidate, Senator JD Vance, to accuse Harris of running a "basement campaign," to circulate the hashtag #wheresKamala and to ask the public Kamala Harris Isn't Giving Interviews. Any Questions?" ... Why Harris isn't taking questions."
The New York Times published a piece Friday with the headline ... Politico titled the Wednesday edition of its West Wing Playbook I just wanted to check out my future plane but I also wanted to go say hello to the vice president and ask her why... does she refuse to answers from the media?"
When their calendars overlapped Wednesday, putting both Vance and Harris on the tarmac of a Wisconsin airport, Vance told reporters A key element we teach in effective communications response is to inoculate against negative attacks before they can stick,
Haggerty, the president and CEO of PRCG Haggerty LLC, said The more you watch politics, the more you see campaign after campaign overplay their hand by expecting good vibes to last forever,
I don't think he knows exactly what his theory is this time to explain how he was denied winning the election so he's trotting out a number of things,
Do you think a comment like that is Trump laying the groundwork to question the election results, claiming its unconstitutional for her [Harris] to the be the nominee."
After playing a segment of Trump's speech, Collins asked Bolton If the Democrats win, I will accept the result, but I'm not going to ignore fraud regardless of what happens."
Texas Senator Ted Cruz told Collins back in May Seems pretty clear that with his bizarre suggestion that @KamalaHarris's nomination is somehow 'unconstitutional', Trump is laying the predicate to reject the results of an election he now fears he may lose."
Former President Barack Obama's senior advisor and political consultant, David Axelrod, echoed a similar sentiment in a Thursday afternoon post on X, formerly Twitter, writing Seems to me actually unconstitutional, perhaps it's not,
Trump told reporters ... regarding Harris as the Democratic candidate There is absolutely nothing unconstitutional about the Democratic Party choosing the nominee it prefers through the vote of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which is what happened here. President Biden withdrew, and the DNC then chose its nominee."
Richard Pildes, a constitutional law professor at New York University School of Law, told Newsweek in an email Friday We know one thing for sure, Trump never loses. And so, if he's not declared the winner of 2024 as in 2020 it must be because he was treated unfairly yet again, it was stolen yet again."
Using the phrase 'not have their government telling them what to do' is so Reagan-esque and appealing to many conservatives that don't identify with MAGA,
There is something in it for moderate conservatives who do not want 'their government telling them what to do,'
Some of us in here are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. It turns out now what they meant was the government should be free to invade your doctor's office,
Walz said in Philadelphia on Tuesday Harris's language is more likely to draw voters based on specific policy issues than party affiliation,
We want to recognize the right all people have to freedom and liberty to make choices, especially those that are about heart and home, and not have their government telling them what to do,