Says Fox News, just Fox News, but isn't it true?
It seems impossible. I'm reading about this and that podcast, and an occasional interview with a mainstream newsperson, such as Fox's Bret Baier coming up, but never a news conference. How is it possible to rise to the presidency without one attempt at handling a press conference?
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How is it possible to rise to the presidency without one attempt at handling a press conference?
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a chokehold is also an attempt at handling anything
She hasn't got time for a press conference, she's running for President!
"This and that podcast."
Yeah ... Only a lesbian sex podcast named "Call Her Daddy." How far we have fallen.
Methinks the Dem is not counting on real voters, but instead counting on false vote counting a waiting for the 3:00AM secret dump signal of the fake votes all paid for long ago. DEMOCRACY, you know.
Teh Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations Wrapped in Low Performance
Democrats actually poll people and focus group people BEFORE and AFTER they meet with Kamala and have found that people are MORE LIKELY to vote for Trump if they speak with Kamala.
How could this happen? Easily, if those who support her don't care about press conferences, don't need to distinguish her policy ideas from those of her competitor's. There's a world of "automatic" voters out there who can't change their minds about a Democrat or about Trump.
Because her handlers know what will happen if she has a Press Conference.
She's not a quick thinker. She lacks self confidence yet is extremely ambitious. That combo makes her fear unscripted events because she says dumb things and then tries to compensate with that odd laugh.
Given how Soocy is making life painful for KJP, I can't imagine that anything short of a tongue bath would be low-pressure enough for Kamala.
By contrast, President Trump is equally at ease in a hostile interrogation as he is with Theo Von or Tucker Carlson. He might be in trouble if Kamala had the basic intellectual firepower to handle softball reporting, but that is the problem with genuine DEI hires. A problem that Condi Rice, whatever her flaws, never had.
When she wins she won’t be in charge of anything so why risk parading her out to even some allied news media. It always ends badly so why do it?
Correct!
Hillary had that exact same poll result in 2016.
Either they are abrasive lightweights that don't move the needle in person, or the Democrat Party is full of misogynists?
Standing behind a lectern answering questions off the cuff? No way. She must have a fawning interview - with a hack CBS-like ability to edit.
Kamala drank a beer!
(Can she ride a bike?)
Both. That said, keep women affordable, available, reusable, and taxable, and the "burden" of evidence sequestered in sanctuary states.
Et tu Karma-la?
Holding an unscripted press conference is white supremacy. Every time Trump does it, more black people are put back into chains.
She's smart. Not like they say. Not dumb. Smart. And she wants respect.
The Democrats focus group her appearances before and after (A/B testing) and have found that she loses voters any time she's seen. So of course they're not going to let her be seen.
Surely she can do what Joe Biden does and hold a scripted spontaneous press conference.
She is a woman of color under the age of 70. That's her platform. She's the brat priestess turning the page on old white guys.
Will it be too late, when we determine on election night, that we didn’t do enough to ensure free & fair elections after what happened just 4 short years ago? Yes….it will be too late
Ooh, I didn't realise that, I'm sorry. I will adjust my expectations accordingly
I know it was you, Fredo...
The danger for Kamala is that someone is going to actually challenge all her tergivsations. By having a press conference, the risk of a 'journalist' doing just that increase. If the press gaggle senses blood in the water, the result could be an uncontrollable feeding frenzy.
Goetz von Berlichingen
Q: How is it possible to rise to the presidency without one attempt at handling a press conference?
A: Absentee Voter Fraud
Do you spell it "teh" on purpose? I sometimes see that and wonder why people are spelling the word "the" that way. Just curious. Not a big deal.
The Good Guys don't have to explain themselves.
Harris isn’t good at campaigning, dealing with the press, or governing. She’s also lazy.
Harris isn’t good at campaigning, dealing with the press, or governing. She’s also lazy.
Bret Baier is a Paul Ryan fluffer. Sit through an interview with Tucker, Rogan, Greg Gutfeld etc... someone adversarial. Every Trump MSM interview is adversarial. Vance is doing it every Sunday.
Quite a few people have come to believe that we really don't need a President who can think well under pressure, and handle challenges extemporaneously. They believe that all we need is a President with a good staff and a coterie of easily manipulated media figures.
"How is it possible to rise to the presidency without one attempt at handling a press conference?"
I'm no Harris supporter, but do candidates typically hold press conferences? As opposed to rallies, interviews, etc.? Public apperances are a tool; Dems are picking the ones that suit their anxious, ill-prepared candidate--so what?
Democrats, including the Democrat elite that runs the News media, dont care. They didn't care that Biden was non-functional, its only when thought he would lose after his debate that they dumped him. Again: They just don't care about their Presidents being compentent - just holding the office. They live by the Al Davis motto: "Just win, baby. Just win".
Democrats vote for "The Machine". Kamala is "Kosher", all she'll have to do is smile for the cameras, read off a telepromter, and sign off on whatever her Chief of Staff or Cabinet officers do.
Do the sainted "Independents" and "Moderates" care? We'll see.
"How is it possible to rise to the presidency without one attempt at handling a press conference?"
Because half the electorate would vote for a potted plant with a D after its name.
Yeah, cost-benefit analysis.
Fox News is just CNN-lite
Harris, Obama, and Biden political views align almost 100 percent with the News excecutives and Owners that run the MSM (except maybe Fox). Accordingly, the news media is an unpaid member of the DNC. They write puff pieces for Harris, attack Trump 24/7, and hide any unpopular views Harris might have. So, she doesn't really have to answer questions or give speeches. The MSM does her PR.
Pretty easy really, IF you believe the fix is in. Also all of her handlers know she is a literal disaster on her own. Without a teleprompter and/or earbuds Kamala comes across as a drunk tween. Not a very Presidential look...
Unfortunately, the "about Trump" part is all too true.
"You ponce in here expecting to be waited on hand and foot, while I'm trying to run a hotel!" - Basil Fawlty
As of this morning here’s the list of interviews and media she has done:
"60 Minutes,” Howard Stern, ”The View" and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
"Caller Her Daddy" and "allthesmoke" podcasts. A town hall with Oprah.
And one debate.
An old interwebs meme.
And managing a staff, that is, people; she isn't good at that, either.
*Call
We had the same pattern in AZ with our new governor before she stole the election.
How are they going to keep it up for four years if she wins? Who gets that job?
I think Bret might surprise us this time.
She doesn’t have a good staff. And even if she did, she couldn’t keep them.
What scares me is if she gets elected, she isn’t going to quietly play her part. She’s going to think she actually is the President. Trouble will undoubtedly ensue.
""Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 86 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference...."
Yes, and it has taken Fox News 86 days to notice. And they're the only news organization that seems to enjoy an adversarial relationship with the President's spokes-thingie, at those Press briefings.
Of course, when you're a Presidential Candidate from the preferred party, enjoying the strong defensive line of the Legacy Progressive Democrat Mainstream Media, almost anything is possible on the field, because no play is illegal - there are no referees. As we have amply seen by CBS's antics over the past couple of weeks, first sandbagging a journalist by giving his subject the questions in advance, then admonishing him for asking real questions with a Maoist struggle session after. And then the capper, substituting answers in an interview with whats-her-name, oh yeah. That Presidential Candidate you were talking about.
It's become so accepted even Ms. Althouse is surprised she didn't notice. But: What is there to notice? We already know she's clueless.
Comes from trying to type too fast, in my case.
"I think Bret might surprise us this time."
Why? Just curious.
Yup. Bair is a Bush guy
OK maybe. But he went along with calling Arizona in 2020 on Fox with 11% of the vote reported. Maybe this November he'll wait for 15%.
We see it here with the lefties.
Trump would hold a press conference going from the West Wing to Marine One.
He wasn't a coward about speaking with the Press. Ask him a question and you got an answer.
You may not like Trump's views or what he wants to accomplish, but you will not be left wondering what they are.
She can remain silent and people will think she is stupid, or she can hold a press conference and remove any doubt.
That depends on what you mean by "ambitious." Harris would love to be president -- to be Boss lady -- but she doesn't want to work very hard to get the job.
"How is it possible to rise to the presidency without one attempt at handling a press conference?"
The same way it's possible to do so without getting a single primary vote.
Watch that standing ovation Trump received yesterday at Chicago's Economic Club presentation. Chicago tends to be 90% staunch die-hard Democrat; to get such a welcome is truly unexpected. Trump speaks without notes or staff-prepared talking point cards. Harris can't answer questions unless teleprompter with responses is operational and within eyeshot. Vance has proven to be outstanding VP choice, both fierce attack dog and cuddly golden retriever, while Walz bumbles, frowns, and goes bug-eyed on cue.
Meanwhile the Kackler puts her hand on her chin at a rally somewhere and says, pulling her chin, "Is it possible Trump is hiding from the press?" She's also disappointed that Trump has not gone on 60 Minutes nor is he willing to have another debate. And the trained actors in the audienced go Yessss!
And I turn on the TV this morning and see Trump sitting down for an hour long interview with the head of Bloomberg News---and he's scheduled for an h our with Harris Faulkner of Fox News later today. Yeah--he's hiding all right.
What good are press conferences held by Donald Trump in front of vetted audiences where his lies and mental slip-ups are never questioned? Comma La has had 86 days to campaign and Trump has been campaigning for four years. Choices have to be made in the short term. She is scheduled to talk to Brett Baier on Fox but Trump won't go close to MSNBC.
“It seems impossible”
Maybe they know something we don’t.
"How is it possible to rise to the presidency without one attempt at handling a press conference?"
Because half the electorate would vote for a potted plant with a D after its name.
It's not that 45% of the electorate will vote for any Democrat, it's not that they will vote for any dead person as long as they are on the democrat ticket (been done, of course) but they would vote for the potted plant that was fertilized with the excrement from the maggot that feasted on the dead corpse of a Democrat politician as long as it was on the Democrat ticket.
If the second coming of Jesus Christ occurred and he ran on any ticket other than D, they would vote for Satan (D). That is how married to the party they are.
The public’s contempt for the press is even greater than the public’s contempt for Kamala Harris.
I'm about halfway through it. It is a tour de force.
Harris declined their invitation to discuss her economic plan.
LOL
Now do Kamala. The topic here. Not really - just F off.
Kamala is off the record, under the table, without accountability.
She believes, without evidence, that the press will treat her with equity and inclusion, and equal venom as their penultimate dance with President Trump.
“That odd laugh” is known as Duper’s Delight. Look it up.
It is the #1 tell that the deceiver is laughing at how easy you are to accept her stories. It’s a Liar’s victory cry.
Hey, DJT is speaking in Atlanta right now. That guy must have extra impersonator robots from Elon, like he has extra impersonator airplanes. He is speaking 2 or3 times a day.
I suppose thats one way to trick the Government hit teams going after him. He will wear them out.
@Dixcus, I heard the same about people being less likely to vote for Kamala Harris (and Hillary Clinton before her) after meeting her than before. Out of all the women in the entire Democrat party these two are the best they have to offer?
My God, our Soy Boy Cat Lady The Hopeless gadfly really is....hopeless, isn't he?
Trump obliterated the WEF/Establishment weenie Bloomberg boy in an hour long aggressively anti-Trump Q&A just today.
I would admonish gadfly to try and keep up but we all know he/she/xe lacks the ability to do so.
That’s why her campaign chose Brett Baier and not Jesse Waters for a Fox News interview. Baier is darling of the Murdoch boys. He is an Atlanta Marist School Catholic with a smooth tongued way of ridiculing Trump.
Of course the so called interview will be pre-taped and edited. They don’t even trust their guy not to ask off script forbidden questions.
Kamala has already told us exactly why she is doing it, in the form of accusing Trump of doing the very thing that her campaign is doing.
Just watch the first few seconds of this video.
https://theduran.com/thaad-100-us-troops-biden-to-germany-as-merz-gives-putin-ultimatum-ukraine-upset-with-jared-leto/
The whole video is great, but the first few seconds are Kamala saying that Trump is hiding out from the press because he is afraid to reveal his weakness as a candidate. The DNC is using the Goebbels playbook, to the frickin' letter; it feels like irony, but it's their technique in everything.
Cry more, libtard.
If we're really electing "a staff" to be President I'd like Kamala's "staff" to be identified. Of course we know from the First Trump Administration that he was capable of hiring some pretty flaky people -- but also capable of firing them.
Who would Kamala be capable or firing?
I'm just curious Ann. You've made several posts along this same theme--that Harris is not behaving like an actual candidate for president. Is she testing your vow of cruel neutrality?
Trump cancels another interview because he found out they fact check.What a hump the fella is lost and hiding in the basement while Kamala on FOX tomorrow and pro ably take CNBC the the scared orange guy cancelled
Let’s be honest, you typically hold a press conference to allow questions about what you have done.
You know what I'd like to see happen? Suppose Trump announces that he will participate in a no-holds-barred press conference with the national press - provided that Harris agrees to participate on the same -- no-holds-barred - terms - press conference. Let The People Decide!
It would be unseemly to hold a press conference. If some poor reporter actually asked a substantive question, the reporter would probably be physically attacked by Harris' Praetorian Guard, that is, the main stream media.
Obviously, Harris would rather take the heat for avoiding tough interviews than bungling one. But I think a sharp interview with an antagonistic reporter (at least one hour long and without preconditions) would help allay concerns about Ms. Harris' intelligence and her preparedness for the job. Right now she seems out of her depth.
Lie much?
Old White Guys are hard to fool. It’s called wisdom, No wonder the Marxists get frustrated by the Bad Orange Man shape shifting into the Good President.
Good idea!
No link, not even the name of the alleged interviewer, the venue, the date, or any other clue by which we could check your veracity? Hahahaha!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh wait...You're serious? HAHAHAHAHAHA
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/media/trump-cancel-cnbc-interview-media/index.html
New York
CNN
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Donald Trump has backed out of an interview with CNBC, marking the second time this month the former president has canceled on a mainstream press interview.
Joe Kernen, the “Squawk Box” co-anchor, broke the news of the unannounced interview’s cancellation during Tuesday morning’s broadcast.
“Well, Trump canceled, and he was going to come on,” he said.”
Good. Why bother talking to anyone at D-NBC?
“Do you spell it "teh" on purpose”
I’m not sayin’ I do and I’m not sayin’ I don’t.
h/t Charles Durning “Homicide”
I used to think Baier was a good reporter… a guy who would dig for the truth. His last few performances have left me thinking otherwise.
I think press conferences is a bit of shorthand here. It is not uncommon for presidential candidates to have private meetings with various media editorial boards as well as generally making themselves available to the press traveling with their campaign (remember the photo of the press pool gazing adoringly at Hillary Clinton?). To my knowledge Harris has done none of these, as well as several news organizations that could be considered Democrat-friendly (The NYT and Time magazine, IIRC for example) publicizing that she has refused their interview requests.
Apparently, according to P-Inga and Dinky Dau and the other lunatic lefty conspiracy theorists, Atlanta GA and Chicago IL are now officially part of Trump's basement.
Impressive.
How naive can one be?
https://x.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1846306920186925240
How come we’ve never seen footage of Harris walking to the back of the plane to interact with the traveling press pool? So many Pres & VPs have done that.
They are even afraid of THAT kind of interaction!
Wasn't bich here bragging about how poorly he did? Maybe I should look at it.
There are two likely reasons that Trump purportedly cancelled a CNBC interview.
1. They are the opposition whose goal is to make him look bad and
2. He knows he is winning and does not need the air time.
Worth watching. Economy Club of Chicago is a formidable audience of white-collar upper-income business men and women.
Bair is a dem stooge, like most of Fox. As soon as they can they will get rid of Gutfield and probably Waters. Right now it would be too obvious. Bair will give her the expected tongue bath.
CNN reporter: "I want to ask you about something you posted on social media that is related to this. You posted a side-eye emoji in response to Trump dropping out of a planned interview with CNBC, alluding, again, to Trump’s mental fitness.
Now, the Vice President was invited to appear with them but declined.
She also declined to be at that Bloomberg conversation or to have a conversation with Bloomberg, I should say.
She also declined an interview with Time magazine.
Declining media hits really isn’t an indicator of mental fitness, is it?"
So, kamala-la-la-la declined the very CNBC event P-Inga is crowing about along with the Bloomberg event, just today, which was aggressively anti-Trump, where Trump did show up, AND kamala-la-la-la is the first major candidate to run screaming away from a soft-ball, inevitably friendly and fawning Time "interview" (wink wink).
Harris top advisors have been consistently named as her sister, her brother-in-law, Doug, and Eric Holder. Maybe Oprah, probably Liz Cheney. (Ambivalent Obama further damaged her with his hectoring "my Black brothers" broadside last week, so no friend there.)
Everyone else is either recently-hired staff, or holdovers from Biden campaign office - fighting for turf and attention. It's apparent Harris is rudderless, getting poor advice from her hand-picked top advisors, and perhaps listening to the seasoned old Biden campaign staff. How else could she so stupidly pick Walz as her VP running-mate instead of Shapiro or the Astronaut Senator? (See I can't even recall Gabby Gifford's husband's name!)
Brett Baier did not fall far from his college roommate, NeverTrumper and democratical funded Stephen Hayes. Baier was the only reason Hayes, after being s***canned from The Weekly Standard by the very wise Phil Anschutz, ever appeared on major media organs again.
"Wasn't bich here bragging about how poorly he did? Maybe I should look at it."
Hell, he never even watched it. Guaranteed.
Right now she seems out of her depth.
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could be bacause she is kneeling depth.
if she stand up will be totally different POV
found link on CTH
Even squish Marc Thiessen sees it:
"Trump is now having a heated debate on tariffs at the Detroit Economic Club with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait.
Whether you agree with him or not, can you imagine Kamala Harris sitting on a stage with someone who vigorously disagrees with her on any topic and debating like this?"
Kamala Harris has been passed around to every up-and-coming politician in the state of California for sexual services. That's how you do that.
Stop blaming voters, bro. Our elections are FAKE.
An illegal coup. That's how.
unannounced interview
So CNBC set up something contingent on Trump's availability, and Trump had better things to do?
Add in the National Association of Black Journalist's event. IIRC that was planned to be a joint apperance.
I'm going to keep a copy of this that we can discuss after the election. Any objections?
Hope springs eternal, eh? I suspect the tide both in the US and internationally is running in the other direction. We will see.
Kamala has been in the White House for almost 4 years now, and apparently Google is incapable of finding a record of ANY press conference she has ever held. Think about that for a moment: Border Czar, Wireless Connections Czar, plus other significant responsibilities assigned to her by Resident Joe, and she has apparently never once been held to public account for anything, Even Dementia Boy held what passed for press conferences, though they were scripted setups with designated questioners. Kamala can't even manage to pull on of those off,
BTW, we all know what a grotesque cluster Google is, so if anyone can come up with a reference to anything remotely resembling a press conference for the Veep fell free to correct me.
"Trump won't go close to MSNBC"
MSNBC has not invited Trump on to be interviewed. They're afraid of giving him any more airtime than he already gets.
Ah yes, because Harris will be challenged by... whom? This "press conference" would of course exclude Fox, and therefore Harris would just sit there and answer "Mistress Perfecto and Hope of America, what is your favorite brand of Ice Cream? And why should Trump not be executed on sight?"
Trump has already been interviewed by CNBC.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/11/cnbc-transcript-former-president-of-the-united-states-donald-trump-speaks-with-cnbcs-squawk-box-today-.html
Its sad how far our lefty trolls have fallen.
Hallelujah, can’t come soon enough.
Okay, Groomer Sprezz
Althouse, I can appreciate your bafflement how a major presidential candidate has never had a press conference. However, we are living in baffling times. Biden won running a campaign from his basement where he literally read the stage directions from the teleprompter and was showing obvious signs of senility. We had a coordinated censorship campaign between the deep state, the media, and the tech companies over the Hunter Biden laptop "hoax". We have had, I dunno, dozens of conspiracy theories proven to be true or at least more accurate than not, while our media pushes obvious lies. Our current administration supports both an invasion of our southern border and the non-prosecution of crime, except for legally bizarre cases it brings against Trump and J6 protestors who get a year in prison for "parading" while rioters are released with no charges. We have college campuses overtly supporting terrorists and making statements that would make Hitler smile. We have one party supporting universal vote by mail, which only a few decades ago was agreed by everyone to be a sign of massive vote fraud and non-democratic institutions. I can go on. What is normal?
@ Dixcus There's a reason that Kamala dropped out before the Iowa Caucus in 2020. There were a bunch of people that Democrats and their donors thought were better candidates in 2020, even though they ended up settling for Senile Joe and DEI Kamala as their ticket.
According to records stretching back to the Coolidge administration and compiled by the American Presidency Project, Trump has gone longer without conducting a formal solo press conference than any president since at least Lyndon Johnson. He also went over 300 days without a formal press briefing. But at least he was already President when he decided to ignore the press.
LOL
LLR-democratical lonejustice, the least capable of all Althouse blog LLR-democratical Brigade members, decides now is a good time to embarrass himself again to try and deflect on behalf of his New Soviet Democratical amigos!
Well, at least he tried.
*tergiversations
“Hallelujah, can’t come soon enough.”
And that’s what Inga tells her PAYING customers! Imagine what she screams at the freebies…
OnanJustice swings and he misses.
Dinky posts with the tube in it's mouth!
Goes to show die-hard Democrats aren't interested in their politicians' work-performances. It's as if elected politicians are no more than sports team celebrities to root for, good season or bad.
Mark something. Or is it Marc?
Spiros you can find Kamala Sharp Interviews in the same aisle as unicorns fling pigs.
Lonejustice for the score 300 days!
She's toast
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