Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her avoidance of the press on the campaign trail, comparing her to a football coach who is trying “to run out the clock.”
Harris is set to do an interview on MSNBC Wednesday night, marking her second one-on-one interview since becoming the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential candidate. The vice president has largely avoided direct sit-downs with the media since joining the presidential race in July after President Joe Biden bowed out of his reelection bid. Blagojevich claimed this has been intentional on Harris’s behalf.
“What I’m seeing, and I think we’re all seeing, is she’s running a campaign for president the way a football team would run a prevent defense and try to run out the clock by hiding,” Blagojevich said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. “And I think the reason is her internal polls are showing that every time she goes out and tries to talk to voters, she loses ground.”
Blagojevich added that he thinks Harris’s support from voters decreases whenever she tries to talk to them, as they see she has “little or nothing to say” about the issues they care about. He also suggested that voters are “catching on” and realizing the vice president’s claim of being raised in the middle class, when her parents were both “tenure professors at the ultra-liberal college at the University of California,” is false.
Because of this, and her inability to answer if voters are better off now than they were under former President Donald Trump’s leadership, Blagojevich contended that the Harris campaign believes the best strategy to win “is to just hide her.”
Last month, Blagojevich claimed the Democratic Party lied to voters about Biden’s “cognitive incapacity” to continue his reelection bid, and accused Harris of being a “co-conspirator” in this.
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The former governor was convicted on corruption charges in 2011 for attempting to extort campaign donations from a children’s hospital and for attempting to sell former President Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat. Trump, who claimed in 2012 that Blagojevich’s sentencing was “outrageous,” commuted his 14-year sentence in February 2020.
It’s outrageous that Blagojevich goes to jail for 14 years when killers and sex offenders are out walking the (cont) http://t.co/O1FbaiGG
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2012
While Harris has not done many press interviews, she has offered to do a second presidential debate against Trump, which the former president has rejected. Kaylee McGhee White, an editor for the Washington Examiner, argued that Trump is right not to do another debate and give Harris another opportunity “to dodge the questions that she was directly asked.”