Harris and Walz to sit for first interview of campaign

Ohio Senator JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, has scolded the media and Ms Harris for her press avoidance. He said earlier this month that it was “shameful” that Ms Harris had not “taken a single real question from a reporter”.

“She (Harris) is taking a basement strategy of running from reporters instead of getting in front of them and answering tough questions about her record and letting the American people know who she is.”

Mr Vance has frequently noted that both he and Trump have held multiple interviews and press conferences, often facing “hostile questions” from the press.

Vice-President Harris – who has enjoyed a campaign that has ridden high on “good vibes” thus far – has avoided some of the gaffes and blunders that the Republican ticket has suffered in front of the press, however.

That could be the point, as she had a few bad experiences with the press in her first two years as vice-president.

A poor interview in 2021 with NBC’s Lester Holt on immigration and the US southern border seemed to particularly have led to a limit of her press engagement thereafter.

It remains to be seen what effect this interview may have on Ms Harris’s campaign, as multiple national opinion polls show her leading Trump ahead of the November presidential election.

A Farleigh Dickinson University poll released last week suggest Ms Harris is beating Trump nationally by seven points, 50 percent to 43 percent.

It is a stark reversal of fortunes for Democrats, who were beginning to fall behind Republicans in multiple races when Mr Biden was the nominee.

Polls frequently indicated the president trailing his predecessor by several points as well.