Vice President Kamala Harris was slammed for avoiding media appearances when she launched her nascent presidential campaign less than four months before the election. Now that she’s embraced the media circuit, the Democratic nominee is being criticized — including from those within her own party — for not being quicker or sharper on her feet when she’s given opportunities to answer direct questions.
Her campaign initially worked to address concerns about its media strategy by scheduling a series of interviews, on both cable news and with outlets outside the mainstream, aimed at reaching undecided and swing-state voters.
But things took a turn for Harris when she went on ABC‘s The View earlier this month and immediately caught blowback for saying she couldn’t think of anything she would have done differently than President Joe Biden in the last four years.
“There is not a thing that comes to mind,” Harris told co-host Sunny Hostin …