The vice president is hitting the airwaves throughout the week with a slate of major media appearances, including a “60 Minutes” segment, a radio hit with host Howard Stern, a late-night sit-down with Stephen Colbert, and a roundtable with the hosts of “The View.”
On “60 Minutes,” aired Monday, Harris was pressed on her shifting policy positions and her economic plans in a tough interview with CBS News’s Bill Whitaker.
“What the American people do want is that we have leaders who can build consensus. Where we can figure out compromise and understand it’s not a bad thing, as long as you don’t compromise your values, to find common-sense solutions,” Harris said.
Read more from the interview from The Hill’s Alex Gangitano.
On “The View,” aired early Tuesday, Harris took a lighter tone as she endorsed Maya Rudolph’s “Saturday Night Live” impression of her.
An interview with the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast, hosted by Alex Cooper, also went live over the weekend, prompting viral moments as Harris hit back at GOP criticism about her lack of biological children.
“Family comes in many forms, and I think that, increasingly, you know, all of us understand that, you know, this is not the 1950s anymore,” Harris said on the podcast, the top-listened-to among women, according to Spotify.
Read more about the podcast’s foray into politics from The Hill’s Miranda Nazzaro.
“The Howard Stern Show” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” were both set to air Tuesday.
The Harris campaign has thus far used targeted interviews to help reach key demographics, while the audiences for her appearances this week are likely to be notably larger. “The View” and “The Late Show” draw millions of viewers daily, while Stern and Cooper boast millions of subscribers and social media followers.
Read more about the media blitz from The Hill’s Brett Samuels.
The packed schedule of appearances come as Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), have faced accusations from the right that she was skirting the press — plus some Democratic pressure to ramp things up, The Hill’s Amie Parnes reports.
Harris’s 2024 campaign launched in late July with President Biden’s historic exit from the race, but the vice president didn’t sit for her first major TV interview of her fast-tracked bid until a CNN showing with Walz at the end of August.
Walz has also been part of the campaign’s latest media flurry in the wake of the vice-presidential debate last week. He appeared on Fox News Channel over the weekend, and on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night.
Read more about whether the new media push could quiet conservative criticism or sway undecided voters in The Memo from The Hill’s Niall Stanage.
