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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author, Rachel Bade. It's Thursday, August 8th.

It was a crazy day on the campaign trail yesterday. Needless to say, Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Tim Walls, were welcomed by massive, I mean massive crowds during a pair of stops in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Trump's VP pick, Jady Vance, meanwhile, followed them around, trolling Harris by approaching her plane, and of course, quipping that one day this would be his mode of transportation, and also telling the press corps that he came over because, frankly, he wanted

them to be able to talk to someone. He was making this point that Harris was probably not going

to gaggle and he ultimately was right. The jab actually highlighted, though, a bit of a touchy

subject right now in the media, and that's that Harris has been atop the ticket for more than

two weeks and still hasn't done any interviews or

gaggles with the news media.

Joining me now to discuss Harris is thinking on this is my colleague Eli Stokels.

Hey there, Eli.

Hey, Rachel.

How are you?

I'm good.

Tired, as you are, I'm certain to.

So just to borrow from your headline in West Wing playbook yesterday, which was awesome,

why isn't Harris taking questions right now?

Well, I think the simplest explanation is she's killing it just going out there and doing these rallies, right?

Like people are comparing the enthusiasm, the crowd size, the sort of wall-to-wall television coverage of these rallies to Trump in 2016,

to Obama. In 2008, she's getting tons of earned media. You know, and the networks that were

glued to Trump in 2016 are seeing some of their highest ratings when they are just taking

Harris rallies, or now Harris Walls rallies.

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