Trump Blasts Kamala Harris For Dodging The Press

During a fiery speech at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her out for avoiding the press for nearly a month.

Trump, never one to shy away from a sharp critique, likened Harris’s media avoidance to President Joe Biden’s infamous strategy of campaigning from his basement during the 2020 election.

Trump didn’t mince words as he highlighted Harris’s recent avoidance of unscripted interviews. As of Friday, it had been 26 days since Harris last faced the press without a script, according to Breitbart News.

Even though Harris delivered a speech on economic policies in North Carolina, she declined to take any questions, a move that didn’t escape Trump’s notice.

The GOP presidential candidate humorously mocked Harris’s habit of laughing during interviews, saying, “She has been prohibited from laughing, you know, she used to do an interview, she’d go, ‘Ha, ha, ha, ha.’ Who the hell laughs at an interview like that? You know I’m interviewed all the time. I may smile, but it’s not like a comedy club.”

He continued, suggesting that her laughter might be one reason she’s been avoiding interviews lately. “She’d break out… that’s one of the reasons she refuses to do interviews, I think, because she laughs,” Trump added.

“It’s so horrible,” he went on to say. “No, it’s so horrible. You know, she hasn’t done an interview, like, in 30 days or something like that, and I do one every day.”

Per Breitbart News, Harris hasn’t sat for a television interview since June 24, 2024, and the last time she answered questions during a solo press conference was back in December 2023. Trump seized on this, arguing that someone running for office has an obligation to engage with the press and the public.

Comparing Harris’s media strategy to Biden’s 2020 basement campaign, Trump said, “This is her form of the basement. Now, the basement for him was good because, you know, they had COVID, they didn’t want him to catch COVID… he ended up catching it anyway.”

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