Kamala Harris ducks interview with ANOTHER big name media outlet after being slammed by Time magazine
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has declined numerous interviews ahead of Election Day, and now she’s refusing to give one to an outlet owned by a former Democratic presidential candidate.
On Tuesday it was announced that Harris’ campaign rejected Bloomberg News’ offer for an interview alongside CNBC and Time Magazine.
The company was famously founded by former New York mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, who ran for office in 2020 before dropping out to support Biden.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, took part in a town hall with Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday afternoon, where he talked about his pricing plans, his relationship with Vladimir Putin and more.
Kamala Harris recently gave a 60 Minutes interview after being accused of not speaking to enough media outlets
The former New York mayor may have outraged the Harris campaign by not immediately voicing his full support after Biden dropped out this summer. He has yet to endorse Harris.
“Democrats now have a chance for a fresh new start,” Bloomberg wrote on X shortly after Biden withdrew from the race in July.
“We don’t need to get a resolution right away, but we need to get it right,” Bloomberg said. “The decision is too important to rush because the election is too important to lose.”
The news of harris’s refusal came during a CNN segment in which host Boris Sanchez questioned Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Ian Sams about the VP’s media appearances.
The CNN host began highlighting Harris’ reputation, noting her absence from the Bloomberg event and her recent denials of interviews to Time Magazine and CNBC.
CNN host Boris Sanchez questioned Harris-Walz spokesman Ian Sams about his insinuation that avoiding media interviews is a sign of mental acuity problems
“Now the vice president was invited to appear [CNBC] but refused, she also refused to be on that Bloomberg call,” Sanchez said.
She also declined an interview with Time Magazine. Declining media hits aren’t really an indicator of mental fitness, are they?’ he asked the spokesman.
Sams had previously posted on
The Democratic spokesperson then claimed that Harris is not afraid of combative interviews by pointing to her upcoming appearance on Fox News, scheduled for Wednesday.
“She answers questions from very difficult angles,” Sams reassured the host.
Harris is also facing the wrath of Time’s owner after she refused to participate in an interview with the renowned news magazine.
Marc Benioff wrote about his disappointment with X, claiming that Time Magazine had reached out several times for an interview with the presidential candidate.
“Despite multiple requests, Time has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris – unlike every other presidential candidate,” the owner wrote on Sunday.
Benioff included a link to interviews Time Magazine conducted with former President Donald Trump and President Biden when he was still running for re-election in 2024.
Time owner Marc Benioff (pictured) is furious that Vice President Kamala Harris has rejected repeated requests from the magazine to participate in an interview before the 2024 presidential election
“We believe in transparency and publish every interview in full,” he added. “Why doesn’t the vice president interact with the public on the same level?”
A Time article published on October 10 titled What Kind of President Would Kamala Harris Be? notes that the vice president “declined repeated requests for an interview for this story.”
Trump, on the other hand, spoke about his policy vision to a Time reporter for 90 minutes in two interviews. Biden spoke to Time for a similar amount of time before dropping out of the race,” they added in that article.
The charges against Harris’ refusal to interview with the magazine come as CBS News faces intense backlash for positively editing the candidate’s 60 Minutes interview.
Critics have questioned Harris’ media strategy in the run-up to the election.
VP Harris’s media strategy has been questioned by critics after she rejected a number of mainstream and traditional media outlets in favor of more alternative media, such as the raunchy, sex-oriented podcast Call Her Daddy.
The VP has conducted some questionable interviews, such as with the raunchy and sex-oriented podcast Call Her Daddy.
And she has forgone some more traditional interviews, such as with Time Magazine or older television outlets, and instead appeared on radio shows, such as with Howard Stern or Charlamagne Tha God, whom she will sit down with in Detroit on Tuesday.
But Harris has agreed to a select number of traditional, sit-down interviews — such as with 60 Minutes and with CNN, where she appeared alongside running mate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Although he declined a Time interview, Harris did pose for a photo shoot with Vogue, which published their glowing profile of the vice president on Friday. The magazine revealed a long story about what life has been like for her since Biden dropped out and she took over his campaign.
Harris sat for an interview and took part in the shoot with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz at the vice president’s home on October 7.
The cover describes Harris as “the candidate for our times” and shows her wearing an Gabriela Hearst suit and $800 Tiffany earrings.