Harris and Walz face heat for hosting 'scripted and fake' interview with each other instead of media

WASHINGTON, DC: Vice President Kamala Harris and governor Tim Walz, her running mate for 2024, came under fire on social media for posting snippets of an online "scripted and fake" interview they had while they continued to evade press for almost a month since announcing their candidacy. 

Even though Harris hasn't held a formal news conference or in-person interview in the first 25 days of her presidential campaign, she and Walz have published bits of their interviews to build excitement for the ticket. Conservative critics of Harris' campaign mocked the footage, claiming it summed up all of her fakery.

What was Kamala Harris and Tim Walz's interview all about?

The clip in question showed the two jokingly recalling the phone call Kamala Harris made to invite Tim Walz to be her running mate. It was excerpted from a larger discussion between the Democratic ticket that will be released on Thursday, August 15. 

Harris made fun of Walz for not returning the first call. "I called you, Tim. I called you, Tim." A bashful looking Walz replied, "Yes." "You didn’t answer, Tim," the vice president continued, according to Fox News. "I know. I know. The most important call of my life. It popped up, and we didn’t recognize the caller ID, and it went to uh, it went to voicemail," Walz said as Harris laughed. 

The clip then flashed to a scene of Harris listening to Walz’s voicemail and leaving one of her own, saying, "Hey Tim, it’s Kamala. I really want to talk to you." The scene then jumped back to the two candidates, with Walz saying, "It is an amazing privilege. I’m excited. I just want to be part of the excitement that you’re generating."

"Well, we’re doing it together, buddy," Harris replied as the clip ended. Her official account captioned the video, stating, "I could not imagine a better partner than @Tim_Walz to lead our campaign."

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz got bashed for being inauthentic

Although numerous comments on the video attacked it for being phony and disgusting, the footage garnered about two million views on X in a single day. "So your response to accusations of hiding from interviews is to put out a scripted conversation?" conservative commentator Blaire White asked on X after viewing the clip.

Conservative commentator duo The Hodge Twins asked, "How many times did y’all act this out before you got it right? Completely scripted and fake." Prominent conservative account 'End Wokeness' called the clip the "Fakest s*** I’ve ever seen."

Author Hans Mahncke criticized the pair for doing interviews with one another instead of the media. "OMG they can't do interviews so instead they talk to each other and hope we don't notice the difference," he posted. Journalist Steve Krakauer wrote, "Well, they finally did an interview. (Every journalist with an ounce of self-respect should be furious.)"

Pro-Trump social media influencer ALX mocked Harris’ mannerisms in the video, commenting, "Normal people totally say the person’s name they’re talking to three times in the first 3 seconds."

Conservative talk radio host Cash Loren described the clip as "Another scripted fake and cringe phone call."

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