NewsNation host Chris Cuomo said during a Thursday podcast that Vice President Kamala Harris is avoiding the media because she is more vulnerable than previous Democratic presidential nominees.
Harris still has not sat down for an interview one month into her presidential campaign, and she is slated to accept the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday, two days after former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) speeches. Cuomo, on “The Chris Cuomo Project,” said Harris is “hiding” from the press because of the “risk” involved, something that was not a factor for Obama and other Democratic presidential nominees, who he suggested were more talented. (RELATED: Over Three-Fifths Of Americans Believe Kamala Harris Covered Up Biden’s Health Issues, Polls Find)
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“I do think there’s something special about Barack Obama when it comes to political acumen and political skill set, and I think he showed that [on Tuesday]. Now, there’s also a reason that he and Michelle were removed by two days from Harris. Why? Because you got to be careful about overshadowing your nominee,” Cuomo said. “And when she gets this mantle, when this convention ends, when Labor Day happens … it’s time for her to make the case. With me, on the media, in the papers, on the sets, from the stump, in a debate, in more than one debate. She’s got to show she can make the case.”
“She shouldn’t be hiding from making the case. You’ll buy some time; the trend is your friend in politics and the numbers are trending the right way. So they don’t want to put her in front of the media, but that teaches us something also. You don’t want to put her in front of the media because you think there’s risk in that,” he added. “Wouldn’t have done that with Bill Clinton, they wouldn’t have done that with Hillary Clinton, they wouldn’t have done that with Barack Obama, because they felt there was no risk about putting those people in the chair. So here they do see some risk. What does that tell you? It’s an open question.”
GLENDALE, ARIZONA – AUGUST 09: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena on August 9, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on her policy platform, including improving the cost of living for all Americans, at the Hendrick Center For Automotive Excellence on August 16, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Baldwin/Getty Images)
Cuomo then repeated his assertion that political talent is currently lacking in the United States, a claim he made after Harris’ Friday economic speech, where she made a gaffe. The vice president, during the speech in North Carolina, announced her plan to impose a federal ban on so-called “price gouging,” but said “gauging” rather than “gouging.”
“I don’t really care about gouging, gauging. I don’t care, alright? You got to take the level of talent where you find it,” Cuomo said. “We don’t have great talent in our politics right now. We got to wait for better people to want to get involved in what is such a poison process. But this is who we got.”
Pollster Frank Luntz said on Wednesday that Harris has “had the best launch” of a campaign he’s seen during his career, but she needs a “bump” from the DNC to have a “meaningful advantage over” former President Donald Trump.
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