CNN’s John Berman Refuses to Let Harris Campaign Spox Off the Hook Over Media Boxout: ‘She Has Time’ for an Interview
CNN’s John Berman refused to let a senior spokeswoman for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign off the hook on Tuesday morning, repeatedly observing that Harris should have the time to do an interview or press conference.
Berman’s interview with Adrienne Elrod of the Harris campaign began with the anchor asking Elrod, “What’s on the vice president’s schedule today?”
“Well, she’s traveling and talking to voters and getting her message out there to the American people, something that she’s been doing from the very start of this campaign and something that she certainly did when she was President Biden’s running mate as vice president,” answered Elrod. “But, look, you just mentioned the speech she’s going to be giving-”
“But if, I was asking about today, and I don’t think she’s got any campaign events on the schedule today, does she?” interjected Berman.
Their conversation continued along these lines, with Berman repeatedly pressing the issue:
ELROD: Well, she and Governor Walz have been traveling across the country. They hit nearly every battleground state last week on the campaign trail. They raised $36 million within the first 24 hours of Governor Walz joining the ticket. And what she’s going to be doing Friday is taking her economic message directly to the voters in North Carolina. I certainly don’t want to get in front of exactly what she’s going to say, but she’s going to talk a little bit about how she’s going to make sure that she’s putting consumers first as part of her economic plan. She’s going to take on corporate price gougers. She’s going to take on junk fees. And that’s something that, you know, John, she did when she was attorney general of California, something she continued to do as the United States Senator of California. So she’s going to be taking that message out to voters and I look forward to seeing what she more of what she’s going to say on Friday.
BERMAN: I think we all do and I’ll ask you more about that in just a second. The reason I was asking you about today is because it seems like she has time if she wanted to do an interview with a member of the media or do a news conference, correct? There does appear to be that time, if she wanted.
ELROD: Well, look, she has said on the campaign trail that she would be doing an interview at some point. She said that I think last week during a rope line or when she was talking to reporters. But look, what is important here, John, is that she is taking her message directly to the American people. She hit a number of battleground states. I think we had 15,000 people in Detroit last week, 12 to 13,000 in Nevada. She’s been taking her message to the voters and drawing large crowds. So she’s actually having those direct conversations-
BERMAN: But not today — all I’m saying is not today. She could do an interview today, I would think, you know, because she’s not out there today.
ELROD: Well, look, she’s taking her message directly to voters. And, just because she doesn’t have anything, an interview schedule on her public schedule doesn’t mean that she’s not taking her message directly to voters about how she’s going to improve their lives, how she’s going to protect their economic freedoms, how she’s going to expand their rights as Americans. In contrast to Trump and JD Vance, who simply want to enact the Project 2025 agenda, which would set America back dramatically.
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