CNN’s Jim Acosta stunned Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director Michael Tyler on Wednesday by asking: ‘Would it kill you guys to have a press conference?’
Harris received President Joe Biden’s endorsement on July 21 – the day the president dropped out of the race – but has yet to hold a press conference or do a sit-down broadcast interview.
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has made hay over this fact, with the @TrumpWarRoom X account highlighting Acosta’s conversation with Tyler suggesting Harris ‘holds rallies so she can read from her teleprompter!’
All the while, Tyler remained noncommittal about Harris holding a full-scale press conference.
‘Listen, the vice president and Gov. Walz have been busy criss-crossing this country since the launch of this campaign,’ Tyler said.
CNN’s Jim Acosta (left) stunned Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director Michael Tyler (right) on Wednesday by asking: ‘Would it kill you guys to have a press conference?’
The Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, hasn’t done a sit-down interview or headlined a press conference since she was endorsed by President Joe Biden on July 21st, as he pulled out of the 2024 race
He noted that thousands of supporters have been coming out to the Harris-Walz campaign rallies.
Acosta interjected, noting: ‘A campaign rally is not a press conference.’
‘She’s the vice president, she can handle the questions, why not do it?’ the CNN anchor added.
Tyler said ‘we absolutely are going to do it,’ but then pointed to how Harris has answered questions from her traveling pool of reporters during recent campaign travel.
He also said that Harris would sit down for an interview by the end of the month.
‘Can you commit to a press conference before the end of the month?’ Acosta asked.
Tyler said Harris would ‘directly engage with the voters who are actually going to decide this election.’
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Former President Donald Trump held a press conference last week at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. He’ll host journalists to his Bedminster, New Jersey on Thursday for another presser
‘And that is going to be complete with rallies, with sit-down interviews, with press conferences, with all the digital assets we have at our disposal.’
‘We are running a campaign that is built to communicate with the voters that are actually going to decide the pathway to 270 electoral votes,’ Tyler added.
Harris’ rival, former President Donald Trump, held a press conference last week at Mar-a-Lago.
He announced Wednesday that he would hold another press conference Thursday at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club.
Trump also spent just over two hours Monday night speaking to Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on X, which Musk bought and transformed from its original iteration as Twitter.