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Harris Cultivates Media Allies in Off-the-Record Schmoozefests

It’s funny how journalists admit Kamala Harris is getting a media honeymoon, and then deny it means anything. Ben Smith at Semafor sent an email noting “Republican fury” at the gushy pro-Kamala bias and claiming, “But who are we, and Republicans, kidding? I wish we had that kind of power. The news media can’t make and break politicians (even Democrats) anymore. “

He wrote this…right after weeks of a brutally negative media drumbeat was part of driving Joe Biden out of the race.

Smith was promoting a July 28 Semafor article by reporter Maxwell Tani titled “A more media-friendly Kamala Harris runs for president.” The Harris campaign is starting late, but for years now, Harris has been building relationships with her Democratic allies in the so-called “mainstream” media elite.

We’re told she’s invited a “parade of prominent…

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