‘Come On, Man’: James Carville Tells GOP Strategist It’s ‘Absurd’ To Demand Harris Do Interviews

Democratic strategist James Carville told Republican strategist Lance Trover on Monday that it is ridiculous to pressure Vice President Kamala Harris to conduct interviews with the press at this point in her campaign.

Harris has not conducted a sit-down interview nor held a press conference since launching her presidential campaign on July 21. Carville, on NewsNation’s “CUOMO” told Trover that Harris has been preoccupied with other matters and that there’s no requirement for presidential candidates to do interviews toward the beginning of their campaigns.

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“James, you would agree it is their strategy to not do interviews, for her to do as little interaction with the press as possible, right?” Trover asked.

“Come on, man. July the 21st, in that time, she had to put a convention together. She had to pick a vice president. They had to put a campaign together. They had to merge two campaigns together. Where is it written that in the first five weeks of the campaign, you have to do a long-form interview? That’s just a made-up thing,” Carville responded. “That’s absurd. She’s been quite busy and has done quite well. And she’s got more things to do than sit around and wait around and do a long-form interview, of which after you do it, the press is going to forget about it anyway.”

Trover clarified it’s important for Harris to do interviews so that voters understand where the vice president “stands on the issues” rather than “pleasing the press.”

“You heard her speak. She thinks that inflation is caused partly by price rigging. She thinks you ought to raise taxes on incomes over $400,000 a year and have a first-time home buyers relief fund,” Carville said. “There are ways that you can get out what your stand on the issues is without having a long-form journalistic yap trap.”