The American presidential campaign will experience an important moment, a marker of sorts, when CNN will broadcast an interview with Kamala Harris on Thursday, August 29. Since taking office from President Joe Biden, who abruptly dropped out of the race on July 21, the Democratic candidate has had some on-the-fly exchanges with journalists. But he was under pressure to agree to a more in-depth and formal interview. The interview is scheduled to be broadcast in full at 9 p.m. local time (3 a.m. Friday, Paris time).
CNN published a first excerpt of this long-awaited moment on Thursday, in which the vice president tries to show loyalty to her ideas, while the Republican side attributes it to her inconsistency in certain positions.
“The most important and significant thing about my projects and my political decisions is that my values have not changed” said mme Harris told journalist Dana Bash of Savannah, Georgia, where she is campaigning.
“I always thought (…) that climate change was a reality, that it was an urgent issue” and that the United States must maintain ” goals “ in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, the 59-year-old Democratic candidate said in a first excerpt broadcast by the channel. my belief regarding “our need to secure the border [avec le Mexique] has not changed »Kamala Harris added, without giving details of her program.
He also said, this time in a quote shared in writing on CNN’s website, that “It would be good for the American people if there was a Republican minister in power. [son] government “in the event of victory in the presidential elections on November 5.
An interview with his running mate Tim Walz
Republicans, seeking to undermine the vice president’s views, accuse her of wanting to bury progressive positions taken in the past, such as against hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” – a method of extracting hydrocarbons denounced by environmentalists – or against the construction of a wall on the southern border.
“It is the worst weather vane”accused his Republican opponent Donald Trump on Thursday during his campaign in Michigan. “She is incompetent, she doesn’t know how to do interviews”he added.
In the interview, the 59-year-old Democrat is accompanied by her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, whom Donald Trump used to attack his rival. “Tampon Tim” should not be present during the interview to help with Kamala’s inevitable mistakes”he wrote on his La Verdad channel.
Trump supporters gave Tim Walz this mocking nickname in reference to a decision the governor made regarding the distribution of periodic protection in schools.
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“Having an interview with the candidate duo in the summer has been a tradition in election campaigns for twenty years”stressed in X one of the spokespersons for the Democratic candidate, Ian Sams.
Trump-Harris televised debate on September 10
According to polls, the duel with Donald Trump remains extremely undecided, especially in some highly coveted states, although the Democratic candidate is in a better position than Joe Biden was before his withdrawal.
“It will be a very close race until the end. Let’s not pay too much attention to the polls, because we are not the favorites, okay? And we still have a lot of work to do.”Kamala Harris said during a rally in Savannah. She hopes to retain Georgia, won at the last minute by Joe Biden in 2020, when this southern state had been voting for the Republican presidential candidate for decades.
Like Kamala Harris, Donald Trump is touring the “swing states” – states that promise to be particularly hotly contested in November, of which Georgia is one. The 78-year-old billionaire, who is travelling to Michigan on Thursday and then to Wisconsin, has had plenty of opportunities to answer questions from journalists and other interlocutors. At the end of July, he had heated exchanges with an association of African-American journalists. On August 13, he spoke at length with his wealthy supporter Elon Musk, in a much more comfortable, even downright friendly atmosphere.
After the interview with Kamala Harris on CNN, the next highly anticipated moment of this election campaign will be the debate between the two candidates, organized on September 10 in Pennsylvania, on the ABC channel.
