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Social media users aren’t thrilled about Kamala Harris’s appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
The Democratic candidate for president and current vice president recorded an interview for the sex podcast hosted by Alex Cooper. Abortion is one of the primary topics of conversation.
For those of you unaware of Cooper’s content, it has a heavy R-rating at times. In the past, her podcast has spoken about incredible graphic o*al sex, aired an episode about “Sl*t Camp,” and other topics so graphic that Conservative Brief is choosing not to publish it.
Many social media users have slammed Harris for going on this podcast.
Kamala Harris will appear on Alex Cooper’s ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast next week, one of the top podcasts for women in the US.
The interview will be focused on reproductive rights. pic.twitter.com/FurZbyJU3S
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 4, 2024
While hundreds of people are stranded and dying in Appalachia in the wake of Hurricane Helene, our @VP was busy appearing on a s*x podcast in LA. Shame on this woman. She continues to embarrass our country with her sheer incompetence and negligence for the American people. https://t.co/kISbsfevFP
— Jayme Franklin (@jaymefranklin16) October 5, 2024
Aw so glad she has time for this. Not like Americans are in any sort of crisis that should have the undivided attention of the current** administration. 🙄🙄 https://t.co/W6D7CFI1o6
— Rachel (@Rachel__Bush) October 5, 2024
The absolute worst person you know is excited about this https://t.co/6d9xxqHVTh
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 4, 2024
Pretty wild what’s happening in NC & the president has no brain & VP is on a podcast called “call her daddy” https://t.co/Thg5dtY4ot
— Brooks Italiano (@Brooksiei) October 5, 2024
This comes as Harris has been using the “hide and go seek” tactic and it’s beginning to worry some Democratic Party staff members, including some who work for the Harris campaign.
The “basement Joe” strategy worked for President Joe Biden in 2020 but there is no more pandemic and the vice president’s lack of interviews or press conferences has become an increasing concern.
The campaign is playing preventive defense with no lead and using a “do-no-harm, risk-averse approach” that has staffers concerned, sources told Politico.
“And beyond concerns about her schedule, Democrats argue that Harris would benefit from venues that allow her to introduce herself to voters in a more authentic way, such as town hall events, more sit-down interviews, and unscripted exchanges with voters,” the report said.
“There’s a time at which you just have to barnstorm these battlegrounds,” David Axelrod, a top political strategist who worked on the campaign of former President Obama in 2008 said. “These races are decathlons, and there are a lot of events, and you have to do all of them because people want to test you.”
“It’s the most difficult oral exam on the planet for the most difficult job, and part of that is just that spontaneous — town halls, all kinds of interviews, and not just friendly interviews. OTRs where you interact substantively with people, all of those things are valuable,” he said. “And I would be doing them if I were her.”
A former Biden campaign employee compared her approach to that of former Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 when she lost to former President Donald Trump.
“We know this isn’t actually 2016 again, and it’s not like she’s not going to Wisconsin,” they said, referring to the former Secretary of State’s infamous decision to ignore the state. “But we can still learn from that. Trump is everywhere again, just like he was then. Our side needs to be, too.”
Many said that the Harris campaign is behaving as if it is protecting a lead while actually being the underdog.
“While the plan is for Harris’ travel to ramp up in October, the vice president has spent more than a third of days since the Democratic National Convention receiving briefings from staff and conducting internal meetings, or without any scheduled public events,” the report said.
Eric Appleman’s Democracy in Action discovered that the campaign of Harris and Walz Campaign has striking similarities with the 2016 Clinton Campaign.
“Looking at the same time period in those two elections, Obama had just two days with no public events, and his schedule was packed daily with an array of campaign events, brief appearances at local restaurants, fundraisers, and other events. Clinton, by contrast, had roughly the same number of days with no events that Harris has had, including a brief stint where she was treated for pneumonia,” the report said.
