Trump hits Harris marketing campaign’s media technique: ‘Big tactical mistake’

President-elect Donald Trump known as out Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign technique throughout an interview with Time Magazine, after he was named their “Person of the Year.”

When requested by the journal what Harris’ worst errors had been, Trump pointed to Harris’ media technique.

“I believe that when she would not discuss to anyone, it shone a light-weight on her. In different phrases, if she would have gone out and simply did interviews,” Trump started. “She did not do something. And individuals stated, Is there one thing fallacious together with her? Why would they? I imply, I’m doing this interview with you. I did interviews with, if I had the time, anyone that may ask, I’d do interviews. I believe the Joe Rogan interview, you understand, that went on for nearly three and a half hours.”

Prior to the election, the Trump marketing campaign denied that it had ever formally accepted an invite for Trump to sit down for a “60 Minutes” interview, after CBS News claimed he had backed out.

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Harris did not sit for an interview for over a month after President Biden introduced he was dropping out, and she or he turned his substitute on prime of the Democratic ticket. Toward the tip of August, she ramped up her conventional media appearances, in addition to podcast interviews, following her first joint sit down together with her operating mate, Gov. Tim Walz. 

“But it is an fascinating query once you ask about her. I believe they made a giant tactical mistake by actually not speaking to the press, even when a very pleasant, I imply, they usually had virtually all pleasant, anyone would give you a very pleasant—such as you guys, perhaps—however a pleasant interview, they usually turned everyone down. They would not do the essential. And individuals, together with me, would begin to say, is there one thing fallacious together with her? What’s fallacious? Why would not you do some primary interviews?” the president-elect stated.

Trump instructed Time Magazine that Harris’s interviews that did not go as properly for her would not have gotten as a lot consideration if she had carried out different ones.

“In different phrases, if she did those self same interviews, however she did one other 15 interviews, you understand, you would not have actually seen it that a lot,” he stated.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech after the 2024 presidential election, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

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“She put a lot emphasis on interviews. Somebody thought there was one thing fallacious, and I don’t assume she ever recovered from that,” he added.

Trump and Harris each turned to podcasts and nontraditional media sources all through their campaigns. Harris notably sat for an interview with the “Call her Daddy” podcast, hosted by Alex Cooper. 

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Harris’ prime marketing campaign aides had been pissed off by what they described as a “narrative” about Harris not doing interviews. 

“I do assume a story, 107 days… two weeks speaking about how she did not do interviews, which you understand she was doing lots, however we had been doing in our personal method, we needed to be the nominee, we needed to discover a operating mate, and do a roll-out, I imply there was all these items that you just sort of need to consider. But actual individuals heard, in a roundabout way, that we weren’t going to have interviews, which was each not true and in addition so counter to any sort of normal that was placed on Trump, that I believe that was an issue,” Dillon instructed “Pod Save America” host Dan Pfeiffer within the weeks following the election.