NBC's Chuck Todd knocks Kamala Harris' 'mistake' of avoiding press: 'Any fumble' will be 'overly scrutinized'

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NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd called out Vice President Kamala Harris' "mistake" in avoiding interviews weeks into her presidential campaign.

It was announced Tuesday that Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will be sitting down for a joint interview with CNN's Dana Bash, to be taped Thursday afternoon and air in primetime.

On Wednesday, Todd wrote on NBC News' website that the Harris campaign's "first big mistake" was that it had "raised the stakes" of her first interview by lying low for nearly 40 days.

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"I think the easiest way to diffuse this is to go everywhere… doing local interviews, doing a podcast here, she can go to friendly places, go to unfriendly places," Todd later said on NBC News Now. "The idea when you sort of try to be, you know, laser focused like this… we're going to gravitate to the big event. If there are six interviews, we're all overwhelmed… Everything gets diluted."

"So I really think it only sort of reinforces this negative stereotype that she had coming into this race, which is, you know, she hand-wrings too much, she's a little- takes too long. There's a fine line between being deliberative and being paralyzed by a decision, and the way they've handled this media stuff- you know, I get it. It is