Good article here (see below link) on how the Harris/Walzy campaign team are outplaying and are a step ahead of both the press and Trumpy campaign team with their media strategies
The press and Trumpy campaign are still trying to work out what to do and are just struggling and floundering bigly.
For the Trumpy cultists who prefer memes or video, I have attached a twitter video which shows the strategy in action (sorry couldn’t find a meme).
“Kamala Harris is taking power back from the press corps”
“The first thing you need to know about the vice president’s approach to the Washington press corps is look how well she’s doing as a result. Kamala Harris is now leading Donald Trump in some national polling averages as well as in some swing-state polls. True, her lead is within the margin of error in most cases, but that’s an improvement from where the Democrats were before Joe Biden dropped out of the running and orchestrated instantaneous unification around his second-in-command.
I don’t think I’m overstating things. Her current lead, the millions of dollars she’s bringing in, the thousands of volunteers who are signing up to help, the big big mo’ – I think all of it comes directly from her campaign’s decision not to give the press corps too much access too fast. I think that decision comes directly from the fact that Harris saw firsthand what the press corps did to Joe Biden’s campaign.
Some members of the press corps have noticed how well Harris is doing without them, and apparently, it doesn’t sit right. Here’s Chris Cillizza with a representative sampling. The former Post writer said the vice president has been “almost entirely” ignoring the media since she launched her campaign, and that’s bad, he said. It “bypasses the argument that the media is a critical part of our political system and any candidate who wants to be president — whether they are winning or losing — should be regularly subjected to scrutiny from the press.”
Even if I agreed that candidates who want to be president should be regularly subjected to media scrutiny, I don’t think this press corps, as it is currently organized, is able to. There are exceptions, of course, but this press corps is generally not equipped to scrutinize candidates on matters of fact and substance. I say this because this press corps has conspicuously traded matters of fact and substance for vibes. "
“@Acosta asks Harris communications director Michael Tyler about holding a press conference. Tyler says the priority is engaging voters,"We will commit to directly engage with the voters. They're actually going to decide this election.".
