Axios has a story about the Harris/Walz strategy of avoiding media interviews and press conferences, and the obvious question is not whether it is fair to the American people, but rather “could it work?”
🚨🚨Exclusive: The Harris-Walz ticket is on pace to do fewer interviews and press conferences than any major party’s presidential pairing in modern U.S. history. https://t.co/2H1jgoEe1S
— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) September 19, 2024
Fairness and politics rarely mix, so there is no point in whinging about the strategy. It may annoy you, me, and the political obsessives, but if it works, then it works. I get upset about the lies and hoaxes because they are flat-out corruption that the media should be pointing out, but Biden’s basement strategy worked for him and perhaps Harris’s arms-length strategy will work for her.
Axios’ analysis lays out the numbers, and it shows two things…