Laura Ingraham: Kamala Harris' 'pretend she's not Biden' playbook

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No, the mega-wealthy political consultants running the Harris-Walz operation are not playing some brilliant game of 3D chess. Of course, David Plouffe & Company, and all their big donors, would prefer that she go on television and answer questions. After all, Barack Obama used to do that all the time. They’d like to see her on with Jimmy Fallon, Bill Maher, and "The View," and all those types of shows. They’d also like to see her on "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation" — and even "Fox News Sunday."

No Democrat likes to see Trump and Vance getting so much free time on TV, while Harris and Walz are on the sidelines or (supposedly) hunkered down doing endless debate prep.

But they are keeping her off the air anyway—not because they think it’s a mistake to do interviews, but because they think it would be a mistake for her to give interviews. And they have similar concerns about Walz. In other words, they aren’t avoiding the press because they like to avoid the press. They’re doing it because their candidates are so bad that they don’t have any better options.

37 DAYS: VP HARRIS REFUSES TO REVEAL POLICY POSITIONS, GIVE NEWS CONFERENCES OR INTERVIEWS

It seems clear that Harris’s people have analyzed the polls, the candidates, and the issues, and have reached the following conclusions:

1. It is impossible to defend the Biden-Harris