Here’s What a Harris Adviser Told Jake Tapper When Asked, ‘Why Is She Not Doing More Interviews?’

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday that the Democratic Party’s nominee is “busy” after he pressed about her lack of media availability.

Harris sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash in a sit-down interview last month alongside her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. A week ago, Harris sat down one-on-one with a reporter from Philadelphia.

The vice president has taken flak over a perception she is avoiding reporters. On Friday’s edition of The Lead, Tapper pressed one of Harris’s closest aids as to why she had not made sitting down for interviews a priority.

“We saw Vice President Harris at the rally today in Georgia, she’s going to be in Wisconsin tonight, yet she’s not sitting down for regular interviews, or fielding questions from the press,” Tapper said. “Certainly not to the degree that her counterpart, Donald Trump, is. Why? Why is she not doing more interviews to talk about her policies and answer some of the questions that voters have about her policies and her change on her views and some of them?”

Lance Bottoms replied:

Well, Jake, she’s done interviews and I know that we would love or you would love to see her sit down every single day with CNN and do interviews, but it’s that she’s a very busy person. She’s the vice president as well as the candidate, and we heard her today talk about her views on these policies. It may not be in the format that the media would like.

It may not be that she’s sitting down doing a one-on-one interview, but we heard her today in Georgia talk about her stance on reproductive freedom and how if she’s elected as president of the United States, how she would use the power of the pen to make sure that these freedoms are protected. And this is a really big conversation across the country, and especially here in Georgia, where we have this six-week abortion ban and we’ve seen two stories this week of women who died, mothers who died, because of this six-week abortion ban.

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