A senior adviser for Vice President Kamala Harris brushed off concerns over her lack of media interviews, stating that she is a “very busy person.”
The adviser emphasized Harris’ commitments and responsibilities, suggesting that her schedule prevents her from conducting more frequent interviews.
Former Atlanta mayor-turned-prominent Harris adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms said the Vice President is a “very busy person” when asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper why she wasn’t “sitting down for regular interviews or fielding questions from the press.”
“Why?” Tapper asked. “Why is she not doing more interviews to talk about her policies and answer some of the questions that voters have about her policies and her change on her views on some of them?
“Well, Jake, she’s done interviews,” Lance-Bottoms pushed back. “And I know that we would love- or you would love to see her sit down every single day with CNN and do interviews. But it’s that she’s a very busy person. She’s the vice president as well as a candidate.”
“And we heard her today talk about her views on these policies,” she continued. “It may not be in the format that the media would like. It may not be that she’s sitting down doing a one-on-one interview, but we heard her today in Georgia talk about her stance on reproductive freedom and if she’s elected as president of the United States, how she would use the power of the pen to make sure that these freedoms are protected.”
The response comes amid ongoing scrutiny over Harris’ public presence and communication with the media, particularly as criticisms of her role in the administration continue to surface.
