Yeah. As impossible as it is, I’m trying to look at this through the normie lens. I think “why hasn’t she done an interview, what is she hiding” might catch a little. Now they can think “ok she did an interview”. Yes, in a week the media will be asking “why no more interviews” but it won’t land as much.
The headlines do make me mad. “Kamala explains her shifts in position” while Donald Trump is floating that maybe abortion is OK after all.
This is a winning strategy in the social media age because Trump can advocate both positions, and the people that want to elect Republicans will amplify the selected message to their selected constituencies. Social media is good at channelling selected messages to people that want to hear them, people will entrench in their minds that Trump supports what they support, and then if you try to inform them otherwise they will handwave that away as Fake News.
I follow her on tiktok. She was one of my favorite parts of the Olympics. She had a post yesterday about being in SI Swimsuit issue or being on the cover. Don’t know if she was serious. But her tiktok is a lot of fun.
This was a perfectly fine and successful interview, and she should do like maybe one more, tops. These big mainstream interviews made sense when it was basically the only way to reach people. Now Tim Walz on the subway podcast talking about gutters has way better targetted reach than getting grilled by some tryhard on Face The Nation. Trump already knows this which is why most of his interviews are with like MMA podcasters.
I think if Kamala can avoid a faceplant in the debate, then she just needs to fade all the Republican legal challenge goon mobs. Suffice it to say I’m not that optimistic.
POLITICIAN SITS DOWN FOR INTERVIEW – SHOCK. As headlines go, you would hardly rush into your newsroom and scream at the editor to hold the front page, like some latter-day Woodward or Bernstein.
But such has been the extraordinary – and dare I say slightly synthetic – outrage over the failure of Kamala Harris to do a sitdown interview, that her encounter with CNN’s Dana Bash assumed far more significance than it should have done.
The faux-fury was stoked by the Trump campaign who were making all manner of scurrilous suggestions about why she refused to put down the security blanket of the teleprompter. Donald Trump would repeatedly tell his supporters that she was stupid. Dumb. Can’t string a sentence together. That the only way to hide her maniacal laugh was to stick to autocue.
The Trump campaign was aided and abetted by a US media feeling self-importantly aggrieved that her campaign was swerving around them. How dare she decide to shun the fourth estate during her campaign for the Democratic Party nomination. But given the success with which she has electrified this race and handed the Democrats a real sense of hope, who’s to say she was wrong? It is a slightly terrifying thought for us in the media that politicians might not need us as much as we need them.