Ahead of key interview, five questions Kamala Harris hasn’t answered yet
Al Jazeera
From the Gaza war to immigration to inflation, Harris is yet to spell out how she will accomplish her agenda.
On Thursday, US Vice President and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris will sit down for her first major broadcast interview since she became the face of the Democratic Party following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
She will be joined by her running mate, Tim Walz, for the interview with CNN.
Until now, Harris has taken a cautious approach towards the press, much like Biden, who has held fewer news conferences and media interviews than any of the past seven US presidents, Axios reported, citing presidential scholar Martha Joynt Kumar.
Harris’s own sparse engagement with the media has come under scrutiny, especially from the Republicans. “She doesn’t know how to do a news conference; she’s not smart enough to do a news conference,” Republican challenger Donald Trump said during a news conference of his own on August 15.
To be sure, Harris has spoken on several key issues that polls suggest matter to American voters, in campaign rallies and policy speeches. But without the cross-questioning that an interview allows, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee’s positions on critical subjects remain ambiguous.
