‘Reinforces This Negative Stereotype’: Chuck Todd Says Harris Made ‘Mistake’ By Delaying First Interview
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NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd said on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign erred in not conducting an interview over a month into her presidential run.
Harris’ first sit-down interview since launching her campaign on July 21 will be with CNN anchor Dana Bash in a segment slated to air on Thursday. Todd said Harris’ delay in doing a single interview will cause any misstep during the event to be “overly scrutinized.”
“I think the easiest way to defuse this is to go everywhere. Doing local interviews, doing a podcast here, she could go to a friendly place, she could go to unfriendly places,” Todd said. “The idea, when you sort of try to be laser-focused like this, we’re going to gravitate to the big event.”
If there are six interviews, we’re all overwhelmed with not one thing, everything gets diluted, so I really think it only sort of reinforces this negative stereotype that she had coming into this race, which is, you know what, she hand wrings too much … There’s a fine line between being deliberative and being paralyzed by a decision, and the way they’ve handled this, this media stuff … It’s been a mistake,” he continued.
Todd also said former President Donald Trump doing numerous interviews with outlets of all political persuasions in 2016 made it so a single interview was never so significant.
“They’re now just playing into her perceived weakness. And any fumble now is gonna get overly scrutinized in this interview, unnecessarily so,” he added.
