‘I Don’t Want Her Talking To You’: Dem Pollster Wants Harris To Continue Ducking Press

Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher said on NBC News Sunday that Vice President Kamala Harris should continue to avoid sit-down interviews with the press and instead focus on “talking to the voters.”

Since becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee after President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, Harris has not sat down for an in-depth media interview. With her upcoming debate against former President Donald Trump being one of her first major non-scripted events, Belcher pushed back on PBS’s Amna Nawaz after she advocated for Harris to answer questions from the press.  (RELATED: Trump Hammered Voters’ Key Concerns In RNC Speech, Harris Hardly Mentioned Them) 

“Look, Harris has proven herself to be a skillful debater in the past. In the Democratic Primary process, remember, she had that one line that ended up on t-shirts when she was talking about busing to desegregate and Biden’s opposition to that and saying, ‘I was that little girl,'” Nawaz said.

“Candidates don’t need us as journalists to get their message out … but interviews are where candidates face rigor and skepticism and questions about issues that they’re not raising on the campaign trail and in monologue,” Nawaz continued. “It opens it up to a conversation in a way that’s good for voters and good for democracy. I will just say having been with Vice President Harris in unscripted scenarios there’s policy command there that can come out in these kind of interviews.”

Belcher then interjected to dismiss Nawaz’s statement, saying Harris needs to focus on campaign groundwork across the country.