RIGHT SPEAK: ‘Disrespectful’ Kamala Harris Slammed for Dodging Questions in Recent Interviews: ‘She owes us these answers’; Harris Surrogate Pressed On 'deliberate Effort' by VP to Avoid Hard Questions from the Press

‘Disrespectful’ Kamala Harris slammed for dodging questions in recent interviews: ‘She owes us these answers’:

Vice President Kamala Harris has been criticized for avoiding specifics and dodging questions in the wake of multiple interviews she’s done this week, as media pundits demand she actually answer questions from the press.

“This week she couldn’t or wouldn’t answer a single question straight, and people could see it. She is an artless dodger,” the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan wrote, suggesting voters now have a choice between “awful and empty.”

Harris spoke to journalists this week during an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists (NAJB) and sat down with Oprah Winfrey, who endorsed her for president at the DNC. Harris has yet to hold a formal press conference since emerging as the nominee.

“She owes us these answers. It is wrong that she can’t or won’t address them. It is disrespectful to the electorate,” Noonan wrote, arguing that avoiding questions on illegal immigration was “political malpractice.”

The New York Times’ Todd Purdum, a former White House correspondent for the outlet, wrote Thursday that Harris could not afford to be vague.

“In a campaign in which Donald Trump fills our days with arrant nonsense and dominates the national discussion (and polls show a tight race where Ms. Harris is running behind Joe Biden’s level of support in 2020 with some groups), the vice president can’t afford to stick only to rehearsed answers and stump speeches that might not persuade voters or shape what America is talking about,” Purdum said.

Purdum suggested that direct answers from the vice president would go a long way with voters. --->READ MORE HERE

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Harris surrogate pressed on 'deliberate effort' by VP to avoid hard questions from the press:

Kamala Harris has also been criticized for dodging questions in the few interviews she's done

CNBC's Joe Kernen pressed Harris campaign co-chair Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., on Tuesday over what the host said appeared to be a "deliberate effort" by Vice President Kamala Harris to avoid difficult questions from the media.

"I’m just wondering, as a campaign surrogate who advises the campaign, there is an effort to rope-a-dope this thing right until the election, in my view, and the other side’s done 40 or 50 interviews with JD Vance. I don’t think I have to take my shoes off to count on my fingers and toes how many interviews she’s done, along with Gov. Walz, and that looks like a deliberate effort just not to face the hard questions," Kernen said, lamenting a lack of answers on economic policies from Harris.

Harris has done a handful of interviews, including one alongside her running mate Gov. Tim Walz, since emerging as the nominee. She has yet to hold a formal press conference.

"I think Americans finally say, 'I don't like the way this is working,'" Kernen said. "We'd like to see questions asked and answers provided for all these things, we may never get that."

Coons pointed to Harris agreeing to a second debate with former President Trump and said it was a perfect way to have the vice president answer questions.