The story about dodging interviews was “total bullshit –”

A campaign chairwoman for Vice President Harris’ 2024 presidential bid said the idea that she dodged interviews during the campaign was “total bullshit…”

“I look back on it and think we should have signaled earlier about our strategy around podcasts and who we were (trying to) reach and – but we had a limited amount of time to reach the people (we were trying to) reach and we” We were (trying) to reach out to them,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said on Tuesday’s “Pod Save America” episode.

“But to be faced with a narrative that we weren’t doing anything or that we were afraid to do interviews is complete bullshit –” she continued.

Harris faced increasing pressure to sit down to interviews after his rise at the top of the Democratic ticket. His first major interview after becoming the party The candidate, alongside her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, arrived in late August with CNN’s Dana Bash.

“Real people somehow heard that we weren’t going to have interviews, which was both untrue and so contrary to any kind of norm imposed by (President-elect Trump) that I think it was a problem,” he said. ” Malley Dillon said during his appearance on “Pod Save America.”

During election periods, targeted interviews were used by the vice president’s campaign with the aim of reaching specific audiences. She has done local media interviews as well as radio interviews and podcasts. Harris also joined podcasts “Call her daddy.” And “All the smoke.”

Trump’s victory in the 2024 election has shaken Democrats, who also lost the House and Senate this year. There was conversations going on in the party on what led to their difficulties in this year’s elections, with some centrists saying the party was too left-wing and liberals saying it was not left-wing enough.

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