With 30 days to go before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walsh, are embarking on a media blitz that begins Sunday, and both will be giving several interviews with traditional and new media figures. A senior Harris campaign official told NBC News.
two sat down with CBS‘ “60 Minutes“ for separate interviews that will air on Monday and will each appear on late-night comedy shows later this week. Harris will appear on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert during Walz on Tuesday the seat with Jimmy Kimmel for Monday’s edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
While in New York on Tuesday, Harris is also set to appear on “The View” and “The Howard Stern Show.”
In a pre-arranged interview on Sunday, the vice president sat down with Alex Cooper, host of the widely-listened-to podcast Call His Father.
Also on Sunday, Walz appeared on “Fox News Sunday” for his first Sunday Show interview since running for the Democratic vice presidential nomination, during which he said: “I’ll own up when I’m wrong. I’ll own up when I’m wrong.”
His comments were in response to questions about several cases during the campaign about which he made confusing statements. he and his wife’s fertility treatment got it before the couple had children and About his trip to China when he was a teacher.
The media blitz from Harris and Walz comes after Republicans have criticized the pair for weeks for avoiding questions from the media.
They were particularly struck by former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance. held the thread On X Along with the hashtag #WheresKamala, Harris listed the number of days since she sat down for the main interview.
In response to NBC News on Saturday comment request on tweetWilliam Martin, a spokesman for Vance, suggested that the Harris campaign was falsely keeping Walz out of the public eye.
“Since his disastrous performance in the vice presidential debate, his running mate has been nowhere to be seen. Maybe Kamala Harris and the Cheneys sent Tim Walsh to Guantanamo Bay to free him from the Democratic ticket,” Martin wrote in an email.
But the upcoming media appearances by Harris and Walz also come after some Democrats have begun to testify. worried that the campaign was too risky–against avoid one-on-one pre-election interviews and town hall-style events that involve direct questions from voters.
Upcoming media interviews will also be followed by campaign events in battlegrounds for Harris and Walz.
Harris will be in the Nevada battleground Thursday for several campaign stops and a Univision town hall. On Friday, he will travel to another state, Arizona, to campaign.