Har­ris ramp­ing up media appear­ances as time until elec­tion ticks down

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Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris is increas­ing her media pres­ence in the com­ing week as the Nov. 5 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion is now just under a month away.

Fol­low­ing a 60 Min­utes sit­down with run­ning mate Gov. Tim Walz (D‑MN) that will air on Mon­day, Oct. 7, Har­ris will be in New York the fol­low­ing day for appear­ances on The View, The Howard Stern Show, and The Late Show with Stephen Col­bert.

These appear­ances also come after her join­ing the Call Her Dad­dy pod­cast on Oct. 6, which was the most pop­u­lar pod­cast among female lis­ten­ers on Spo­ti­fy in 2023. The vice pres­i­dent will dis­cuss issues impor­tant to female vot­ers, includ­ing abor­tion, on the episode.

Lat­er next week, Har­ris will trav­el to bat­tle­ground states Neva­da and Ari­zona, both of which are close races. Recent polling from Real­Clear­Pol­i­tics has Har­ris lead­ing for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in Neva­da by 1.1%, 48.6% to 47.5%. How­ev­er, Trump leads Har­ris in Ari­zona by 1.4%, 48.9% to 47.5%.

Walz is also ramp­ing up his media appear­ances in the com­ing week after a shaky per­for­mance in the vice pres­i­den­tial debate against Sen. J.D. Vance (R‑OH) on Oct. 1. He will be doing a solo inter­view on Fox News Sun­day with anchor Shan­non Bream on Oct. 6, fol­lowed by the episode of 60 Min­utes with Har­ris and an appear­ance on Jim­my Kim­mel Live! on Oct. 7. Walz will then be trav­el­ing to Neva­da and Ari­zona as well.

The increased media pres­ence for the Har­ris-Walz cam­paign comes as Demo­c­ra­t­ic strate­gists are wor­ried Har­ris is play­ing it too safe in the lead-up to the elec­tion, includ­ing few­er vis­its to bat­tle­ground states than expect­ed. Insid­ers con­tend, how­ev­er, that the plan is for Har­ris to over­load her trav­el sched­ule in Octo­ber. Strate­gists have also argued that high-pro­file ad buys in key states will be more suc­cess­ful in reach­ing vot­ers than rel­a­tive­ly unpre­pared in-per­son events.

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Still, Demo­c­ra­t­ic strate­gist James Carville on Sat­ur­day acknowl­edged that Har­ris needs to do more to “fill her­self out” and said vot­ers don’t real­ly know “what” she is yet.

Trump and Vance have also sig­nif­i­cant­ly out­num­bered Har­ris and Walz in TV and print inter­views.