Vice President Kamala Harris is in New York on Tuesday to continue her October media blitz, which she hopes will help her reach as many undecided voters as possible just four weeks before Election Day.
Appearing on ABC’s “The View,” Harris did not define anything she’d do differently than President Joe Biden other than that she would have a Republican serve in her administration.
Acknowledging that she and Biden have some personal differences, Harris explained, “The influence of a personal experience will have its impact on the presidency.”
When asked about her response to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s statement that she is making the recent hurricane tragedies “political,” Harris said she has been calling the governor and will continue to call him if she becomes president.
Despite Harris’s claims that DeSantis was difficult to work with, Biden contradicted this earlier on Tuesday, saying that DeSantis was “fully cooperative” with the federal government in handling the disaster.
In what may have been a veiled response to the 81-year-old current president, Harris told The View, “People are ready for a new generation of leadership that’s about fixing problems.”
At one point, the Vice President called Trump a threat to democracy, followed by her appreciation of the support of Republicans, who the media once labeled as threats to democracy.
She touted endorsements from former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), former Vice President Dick Cheney, members of the Bush family’s presidential administrations, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and former Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who died in 2018.
Some experts, such as political media consultant Vish Burra, think the Harris campaign’s “media blitz” is a sign of trouble.
“This media strategy and her bizarre promotion of endorsements from Republicans who no longer represent the base of the GOP is a signal that not only is the Harris-Walz campaign underwater, but that the campaign is underwater with the Democrat base,” Burra, the President of Basilisk Strategies, told NTD News.
Harris filmed a sit-down interview last week on CBS’s “60 Minutes” in a more traditional setting. The interview aired Monday and was notable for the tense exchanges between Harris and reporter Bill Whitaker regarding her economic plans.
When Whitaker asked how her government would be able to afford child tax credits, tax breaks for first-time home buyers, and tax incentives for small business startups, Harris said that she would make the richest Americans “pay their fair share.” “We’re dealing with the real world here,” said Whitaker. “How are you going to get this through Congress?”
Harris responded that members of Congress “quietly” tell her “they know exactly what I’m talking about.”
In the same interview, when asked about choosing to remain allies with Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is waging a ground assault against Hezbollah in bordering Lebanon and expected to retaliate against Iran for last week’s cruise missile strikes.
Harris responded, “We are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end,” unclear on her position.
After “The View” interview on Tuesday, Harris went on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show, where she acknowledged receiving death threats from gang members that she prosecuted, adding that she doesn’t talk about it publicly. “I refuse to live in fear of the bad guys,” she told Stern.
Harris will later tape an episode of CBS’s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” which will air Tuesday evening.
Harris also appeared on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, ranked second on Spotify’s podcast charts, for an interview about reproductive rights.
With the election just four weeks from Tuesday, Michigan’s 16 electoral college votes are becoming more valuable with each new poll. RealClear’s average polling for Michigan has Harris up by only 0.7 percentage points.