New: The Quiet Part Out Loud Is Blurted Out on Issue of Kamala Harris' Press Avoidance Strategy

Much has been said and written about presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' press avoidance strategy since she was anointed by Democrat elites to replace Joe Biden on their presidential ticket over two weeks ago.

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the GOP vice presidential nominee, has been the most prominent voice calling VP Harris out over her failure to hold a press conference or even take a question in the 18 days since Joe Biden was forced out of the race, and the press for seeming to be okay with her bypassing them.

Vance, as we previously reported, took things to the next level while Harris was on the tarmac in Wisconsin on Wednesday, with the Trump/Vance plane also making its presence known and Vance delivering a mic drop to reporters.

While it's been pretty obvious why she's done this and gotten away with it to boot, the quiet part was said out loud in a write-up by the MSM on "why Harris isn't taking questions" by those close to the Harris-Walz campaign:

One longtime Harris ally suggested to West Wing Playbook that Harris could hold off on big interviews until after Labor Day. “There’s really no need,” the person said. “The voters that she needs are at the local level. They’re not reading the national press.”
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“What is the incentive for her [to take more questions]?” said another person close to the campaign who was granted anonymity to share how Harris’ team views the matter. “She’s getting out exactly the message she wants to get out.”

What incentive indeed?

Avoiding the press and going directly to the voters has been a tried and true tactic of many political campaigns going back decades, so their message of course can be delivered unfiltered. In the case of Republicans, they often do this to skirt around whatever warped spin the media will put on their appearances, but ultimately they still interact with and take questions from the press.

Democrats, on the other hand, they do this because they know they can get away with it no matter how long the time is between their last interview and the next one. Further, though they're not afraid of the national press for obvious reasons, they do worry that the candidate will veer off script, which was often the case with Joe Biden and which is something Harris' handlers are undoubtedly concerned about as well.

But it was this quote that inadvertently told the full story to me: "The voters that she needs are at the local level. They’re not reading the national press."

The thing about that is that local press outlets are clamoring for a sit-down interview with her, like David Charns from CBS News affiliate 8 News Now in Las Vegas, but she's denied them, too, including well before Biden's withdrawal from the race:

.@KamalaHarris Madame Vice President, you have visited southern Nevada six times as @VP and each time we have asked to talk to you. Each time we've been denied. Hopefully, now as you seek the presidency, we will have the opportunity to ask you about issues facing Nevadans.
— David Charns (@davidcharns) August 7, 2024

And yet she won't sit down with them either, and the likely reason is that, unlike the national press, the local media on balance tends to ask more hard-hitting questions, and a befuddled Harris' answers would sound a lot like those awful word salads for which she's become known.

Kamala Harris knows exactly what she's doing, and the press knows what she's doing (and what they're doing), and they both are hoping that voters won't notice.

But we have.