{"id":2375308,"date":"2024-12-02T07:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T12:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-harris-media-double-standard-that-wasnt-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T12:28:09","slug":"the-harris-media-double-standard-that-wasnt-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-harris-media-double-standard-that-wasnt-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harris media \u2018double standard\u2019 that wasn\u2019t &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-harris-media-double-standard-that-wasnt-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2375308&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u2064 article discusses the frustrations among top officials\u200c of Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s failed presidential campaign regarding perceived media \u200dbias, referring to it as a\u200c &#8220;double standard.&#8221;\u200b On the liberal podcast &#8220;Pod Save America,&#8221; Harris&#8217;s aides expressed \u200bgrievances about the intense scrutiny she faced for her lighter media schedule\u2064 compared to President Trump, who they argued did even less traditional media but was less criticized for it. They highlighted that while Harris was working to\u2064 reintroduce herself to voters and needed media exposure\u2063 to showcase her\u200b record, Trump, a well-established figure in the \u2062media, did not face similar expectations. The conversation emphasizes how public perceptions and relationships with the media differ significantly between Harris and Trump.\u2063 The article ultimately suggests that these differences in media\u200c engagement \u200cand public presence contributed to\u2064 the distinct\u200b pressures faced by candidates\u2063 during their campaigns.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">The Harris media &lsquo;double standard&rsquo; that wasn&rsquo;t<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1896627\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Top officials in Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamala Harris<\/a>&rsquo;s failed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">presidential campaign<\/a> are protesting a media &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-features\/3211259\/democrats-double-standards-trump-harris-nominations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">double standard<\/a>&rdquo; as they try to explain to liberal audiences what went wrong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>On the liberal podcast <em>Pod Save America<\/em>, multiple Harris lieutenants complain that Harris was pilloried for her light media schedule while President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> largely eschewed traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">media<\/a>. The s-word did much of the work in their discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you have, like, she did more traditional media than Trump did, as you point out, basically none,&rdquo; host Dan Pfeiffer began.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump did none,&rdquo; replied Stephanie Cutter. &ldquo;Literally none,&rdquo; Pfeiffer replied.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3222249\/how-kamala-harris-plowed-through-1-billion\/\"><strong>HOW KAMALA HARRIS PLOWED THROUGH $1 BILLION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And got no s*** for that,&rdquo; added Jen O&rsquo;Malley Dillon, who served as chairwoman of the Harris campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Got s*** from the interested party, you know, the media that wasn&rsquo;t getting their interview,&rdquo; Cutter clarified. &ldquo;But voters don&rsquo;t give a s***.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;m saying,&rdquo; O&rsquo;Dillon said. &ldquo;We got s***. I&rsquo;m saying Trump got no s***.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh yes,&rdquo; Cutter said. &ldquo;We got a ton of s*** that she wasn&rsquo;t doing enough media.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He got no s***,&rdquo; Pfeiffer interjected.&rdquo; O&rsquo;Dillon concluded it was a &ldquo;double standard.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s understandable that a campaign in the heat of battle might feel this way. There are several reasons the Trump-Harris media comparisons don&rsquo;t work, however.<\/p>\n<p>The first is that Harris was the lesser-known candidate. Opinions about Trump are entrenched at this point. It was Harris who was looking to reintroduce herself to the electorate.<\/p>\n<p>Always seeking to be unburdened by what has been, Harris did not want either her vice presidency under President Joe Biden or her unsuccessful 2019 presidential campaign to be the starting point of the voters&rsquo; understanding of her. She also wanted to be selective about showcasing her record as a California prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>That required Harris to create new impressions during a shortened campaign. She needed the interviews more than Trump did, assuming she could do them effectively. Neither she nor her team appeared to share this assumption.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Trump has been ubiquitous in the media for nearly a decade. He has been a celebrity since at least the 1980s, giving interviews on all kinds of topics before he was involved in national politics. Virtually everyone has seen him do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-looks-to-social-media-influencers-to-spread-blue-vibes-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Harris looks to social media influencers to spread blue vibes - Washington Examiner\">traditional media interviews<\/a>. They have also seen him do hostile interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Third, there&rsquo;s a basic asymmetry between Trump and Harris&rsquo;s relationships with the legacy media. Harris received generally glowing coverage, especially in the beginning of her campaign, and could count on generally sympathetic interviews outside of Fox News. None of that applies to Trump. There&rsquo;s a big difference between Trump sitting down with the National Association of Black Journalists and Harris doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, Vice President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">J.D. Vance<\/a> kept the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/09\/03\/vance-interviews-npr-nyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">busiest traditional media interview schedule<\/a> of any of the four major-party candidates. Many, perhaps most, of these were at least somewhat adversarial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have said, &lsquo;Go into the enemy camp,&rsquo; and, you know, the enemy camp is certain networks and a lot of people don&rsquo;t like to. &lsquo;Sir, do I have to do that?&rsquo; He just goes, &lsquo;OK, which ones?&rsquo; CNN, MSDNC,&rdquo; Trump said of Vance in his victory speech earlier this month. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll say, &lsquo;Alright, thank you very much,&rsquo; he actually looks like, he&rsquo;s like the only guy I&rsquo;ve ever seen, he really looks forward to it. And then he just goes and absolutely obliterates them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, Trump and Vance were considerably more nimble and entrepreneurial in their use of nontraditional media whereas Harris was afraid to appear on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-rogan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Rogan<\/a>.&nbsp;This helped the Republican ticket reach the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nrsc-boss-daines-puts-finger-on-group-that-he-says-will-deliver-senate-for-gop-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"NRSC boss Daines puts finger on group that he says will deliver Senate for GOP - Washington Examiner\">lower-propensity voters<\/a> that were the key to winning. Now it is Harris&rsquo;s team that is doing election postmortems on podcasts hosted by people who date back to when the Democrats were on the cutting edge of new media.<\/p>\n<p>The media environment is undergoing major changes and the winning ticket took advantage of it. The losing ticket did not.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth, Harris&rsquo;s cautious media strategy reinforced the perception that she did not want to clarify her views. She preferred ambiguity about how many of her 2019 progressive policy stances remained in effect. This lack of transparency came after months of concealing Biden&rsquo;s condition from the public until the fateful June 27 debate that necessitated her taking over at the top of the Democratic ticket in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo;s deputies now complain that 107 days wasn&rsquo;t enough time to make their case or roll out their candidate. But it was clear for much of that time period that they hoped to take advantage of an abbreviated schedule. They also argued at the time they were waiting until voters started paying attention, after Labor Day or even later.<\/p>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">candidates sought favorable media attention<\/a>. Trump&rsquo;s success despite a smaller advertising budget and more contentious relationship with much of the press and Harris&rsquo;s failure is noteworthy, but not the product of a double standard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1896627\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1896627\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris campaign officials claim a media &#8220;double standard&#8221; exists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2659,"featured_media":2375309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ap-kamala-harris-election-speech-112224.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40615,45974,36497,33017,32076],"class_list":["post-2375308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-double-standard","tag-harris-media","tag-media-critique","tag-political-analysis","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ap-kamala-harris-election-speech-112224.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375317,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375308\/revisions\/2375317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2375309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}