AP downplays need for Kamala Harris to speak to press: Interviewing candidates ‘ain’t what it used to be’ [Video]

The Associated Press is raising eyebrows by downplaying the need for Vice President Kamala Harris to speak to the press.

“Meet the press? Hold that thought. The candidate sit-down interview ain’t what it used to be,” a headline from the AP read Friday. 

Harris, who has yet to do an interview nor hold a press conference since she swiftly became the Democratic nominee, suggested Thursday her campaign will schedule a sit-down interview before the end of the month after her GOP rival, former President Trump, held an hour-long press conference, during which he spent a lot of time slamming her for avoiding the media. 

“That’s about to change, now that it has become a campaign issue,” the AP wrote. “But for journalists, the larger lesson is that their role as presidential gatekeepers is probably diminishing forever.”

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