Democratic presidential candidate and US Vice President Kamala Harris reacts in front of a campaign bus at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Savannah, Georgia, US, on August 29, 2024. | Photo credit: Reuters
Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday (August 29, 2024) “my values haven’t changed,” as she was asked alongside her vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in the first major television interview of the presidential campaign.
Interview with CNN Dana Bash gives Ms. Harris the opportunity to kill criticism that has eschewed an uncontrolled environment, while also providing a fresh platform to establish the campaign and test her political mettle ahead of the upcoming debate with former President Donald Trump set for September 10. However. it also carries risks because his team is trying to build momentum from the shakeup ticket after Joe Biden’s exit and the Democratic National Convention last week.
That’s complete CNN The interview is set to air at 9 pm EDT. It was recorded at 1:45 pm at Kim’s Cafe, a local Black Black restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, and the excerpt was released on Thursday (August 29, 2024) evening.
Mrs. Harris was asked about changes in his policies over the years, specifically reversals in fracking and decriminalizing illegal border crossings.
“I think the most important and most important aspect of my perspective and policy decisions is that my values have not changed,” Harris replied.
Harris also deflected Mr Trump’s questions about her racial identity after the former president said she “happened to be black.” Mrs. Harris, who comes from black and South Asian, said it is “the same old and tired book.”
He also said he would name a Republican to serve in his Cabinet if elected, although he did not have a name.
Mutual interviews during election years are political events; Mr. Biden and Mws. Harris, Mr. Trump and Mike Pence, Barack Obama and Mr. Biden – they all did it at the same point in the race. The difference is that other candidates have also done solo interviews. Harris hasn’t done an in-depth interview since he became the party’s standard bearer five weeks ago, though he has sat for a few when he was Biden’s running mate.
Mrs. Harris and Mr. Walz are still introducing themselves to voters, unlike Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden, whose people have near-universal awareness and opinions.
He was in the middle of a two-day bus tour through southeast Georgia that culminated with an afternoon rally in Savannah. Harris campaign officials believe that in order to win the state over Trump in November, he must make inroads into GOP strongholds across the country.
Democratic enthusiasm for voting in November has risen over the past few months, according to a poll from Gallup. About 8 in 10 Democrats now say they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting, compared to 55% in March.
It gave me a boost that I didn’t have earlier this year. Republican enthusiasm has waned over the same period, and about two-thirds of Republicans now say they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting.
But in the packed arena, Ms. Harris cast her nascent campaign as an underdog and encouraged the crowd to work hard to vote for her in November.
“We are here to tell the truth and one thing we know is that it will be a tight race until the end,” he said.
Harris went through a list of Democrats’ concerns: whether Trump would limit women’s rights after appointing three justices to the US Supreme Court who helped overturn Roe, he would repeal the Affordable Care Act, and grant new powers of immunity granted to the president by the US Supreme Court, “imagined Donald Trump is without a guard rail.”
His rally was briefly disrupted by protesters protesting US involvement in the Israel-Hamas war.
During his tenure as Vice President, Ms. Harris has done on-camera and print interviews with The Associated Press and many other outlets, more often than the president — except for Biden’s late-stage media blitz after his disastrous debate performance. hit at the end of the campaign.
Ms Harris’s lack of media access over the past month has been one of the Republicans’ main lines of attack. Trump’s campaign has followed the days he’s spent as a candidate without giving an interview and suggesting he needs a “babysitter” and that’s why Walz will be there.
“CNN’s Dana Bash has a great opportunity today. If he gives a fair but difficult interview with Comrade Kamala Harris, he will expose her as unfit and unfit for the office of President, as I said about Crooked Joe Biden during the now famous Debate, ” Trump wrote online Thursday. “How good is that for Dana and CNN???”
Mr. Trump generally targets conservative media outlets when he gives interviews, though he has held more open press conferences in recent weeks as he seeks to recapture the spotlight claimed by Harris’ elevation.
After the CNN Interview, Mr. Walz peeled off for other political events out of the country, and Harris continued in Georgia, stopped at the Market Dottie in Savannah, chat with the owner’s mother who as many watched from the road where she told voters she would be. roll out “it’s basically a tax credit for startups, for small businesses that are starting up.”
“It’s one of our top priorities to invest in and grow small businesses,” he said.
He also met with volunteers. On Wednesday, Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz spent time with the high school marching band to cheer on the students, and stopped by a Savannah barbecue restaurant.
The campaign wants the event to motivate voters in GOP-leaning areas who aren’t used to seeing the candidates, and hopes the engagement will spark a viral moment that cuts through the frenzy of media coverage to reach voters across the country.
Mrs. Harris has another campaign blitz on Labor Day with Mr. Biden in Detroit and Pittsburgh with the election fast approaching. The first ballots were mailed to voters in just two weeks.
