Ian Sams, spokesman for Vice President Harris’s campaigntook a slight swipe at Fox News anchor Dana Perino during an interview Friday.
“Is it a risk to put all your chips on a debate, when she hasn’t really been able to do any kind of Q&A with anyone, except in debate prep?” Perino Sam asked on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” referring to Harris.
Sams replied, “Yeah, I reject it, she sat down with Dana Bash for a long interview on CNN…”
Perino said, “An interview in 47 days?”
Later in the call, he claimed the host acted as if Harris is “in the witness protection program.”
“She has traveled through the battleground states and spoken to thousands of people in packed arenas,” added Sams, who previously served as oversight spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office.
Before Harris recent interview with Bash, she faced increasing pressure to sit for an interview following her ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket after President Biden decided to withdraw from the race. Harris did the interview with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), for whom she also received scrutiny.
“It’s clear that her own team and her own party think she needs a babysitter,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) said last week. “And that’s why they’re putting her running mate on stage with her, so he can step in and answer questions if things go like the clips we just saw, as she’s done in previous interviews.”
Despite the criticism, the vice president has survived the interviewwithout major mistakes and no major news.
Sam’s defense comes as Harris and former President Trump are set to go head-to-head in one debate next Tuesday night hosted by ABC News.
In the last one presidential debateled to Biden’s rough performance increasing calls from Democrats for him to step aside from the race. He finally made the decision to do so at the end of July, throws his support behind him Harris.
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