MSNBC co-host Michael Steele chastised the media for “whining” about Vice President Kamala Harris’ limited engagement with the press, wondering Saturday if she can bypass reporters entirely and make her case to the public “without them.”
During a Saturday interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Steele defended Harris for largely avoiding the media since ascending as the Democratic nominee and accused reporters of treating former President Trump with kid gloves during his press conference last week.
“What has struck me since Donald Trump’s press conference is the sort of highbrow nature of the press coming at Kamala Harris,” Steele said. “Saying, in my view, whining, that ‘she doesn’t talk to us. She hasn’t done a sit down with us. She hasn’t done interviews with us.’ And I watch that press conference and I go, ‘Well, you start actually asking real questions of Donald Trump, and pressing him, then that sort of creates a space of balance.'”
MSNBC’S MICHAEL STEELE ACCUSED OF PUSHING ‘CONSPIRACY THEORIES’ AFTER QUESTIONING TRUMP’S …