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Genuinely curious — what do people think of Harris not having done an interview or press conference since becoming the presumptive nominee?

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Ask me again after the Dem convention. Her team has had a pretty short period of time to complete her presidential platform. I think the last thing you wanna do is get in front of trained journalist who are going to try to pick you apart. If you don’t have a thoughtful and thorough explanation of what it is exactly that you’re running on you could lose everything. The pull numbers are astronomical compared to Biden, she’s filling stadiums, news reports are positive, so I’m not really seeing what the incentive is for her to try to get into a one on one and potentially lose control of her narrative to appease a few critics who thinks she’s running scared. If anything, she can come out really strong, incredibly prepared and take all of those criticisms and put them to rest with a single well timed interview. At least that would make the most to me. It becomes even more powerful post conference provided it goes well. Politics comms is all about momentum

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This exactly. Thank you for summarizing it much better than I could. The incentive isn’t there right now. Right wingers are mad about it but it is the strategic and savvy move for the time being. She will have to do pressers eventually; people saying she can’t have obviously not done their homework on her time as a prosecutor 10 $degen

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Thanks. Honestly its a pretty straightforward comms 101 kind of thing, don't ever let your critics shape your agenda. Let's say they are able to force her into doing an interview, if she does badly or even just below average, they'll say it validated all of their concerns, that she's dumb, not ready, all the stuff they are testing out right now. If she does well they'll say the interview was staged, the journalist was biased or a plant and if none of that sticks they move on to the next attack vector. This is true for any political candidate from any party btw. You only get forced into those situations when you're on your heels and you've lost control of your own story because its sowing doubt, even among your supporters or with undecideds. Anyway, convention is in like a week, so would be really surprised if there wasn't a pivot into full campaign mode after that, but we'll have to see. She doesn't seem very scared to me.

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100% Said something similar about press conferences in a different comment - very difficult for them to be “successful” in today’s political climate. Agree, just doesn’t make sense strategically at this point to do those kinds of events before the convention 10 $degen

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