I'm Gabriella Borter, and I've been covering the Biden administration, the Harris campaign and abortion politics this 2024 election cycle. This week, both candidates tried something new.
On Wednesday, Harris sat for a combative interview with Fox News' Bret Baier. He grilled her on the Biden administration's efforts to quell a surge in illegal immigration, Biden's mental fitness and other sticking points for Fox's traditionally conservative viewers. Growing visibly frustrated at times, Harris repeatedly framed her answers around what she sees as Trump's shortcomings, including his threats against critics.
The Trump campaign called the 30-minute interview on the right-leaning news network "a train wreck," while Democrats say she showed toughness.
Harris and former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger made their case to centrist and right-leaning voters who reject Trump's rancorous politics in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday and promised last Friday that she would create a bipartisan advisory council and appoint a Republican to her cabinet.
To sway Black men, where Harris lags Biden, Democratic former President Barack Obama headlined a campaign event, the campaign tailored a policy rollout, and Harris sat for an interview with Charlamagne tha God, in which she talked about her new loan policies and promised to legalize marijuana.
Next up, Harris' team is in talks to have her on Joe Rogan's podcast, the most popular podcast on Spotify, with 14.5 million followers and a majority audience of younger men, Reuters was first to report.
Trump, meanwhile, courted women and Latinos with targeted town halls on Fox and Univision, respectively, on Wednesday. To Latinos, he re-emphasized his false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating pets when an undecided Republican voter questioned him. At the Fox event for women, he called himself "the father of IVF."
Trump clashed with Bloomberg's editor-in-chief at a Chicago Economic Club event on Tuesday as he sought to defend his tariff plan and other economic policies. Trump said a president ought to weigh in but said he would not order Federal Reserve interest rate decisions. He declined to say outright whether he had stayed in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving office but said doing so would be wise.
After the event, he said he had been under the impression he would be giving a speech, but then was told he was going to be interviewed by Bloomberg. "He was a Trump hater, and brilliantly my staff didn't tell me that," Trump complained on Tuesday night.
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