Hi, everyone. I'm Jenna. I'm a journalist and the founder of Smarter News. And I thought I would just jump on real quick here to provide a debrief for the interview that Vice President Harris participated in last night. It is her first interview as a presidential nominee. And for that reason, it is newsworthy and important. We typically

are not going to debrief after every single interview a presidential candidate does, but in this

particular case, it matters because things have changed so quickly in this campaign. We started

the summer with one candidate at the top of the ticket for the Democratic Party. Now we're

ending summer with a new

candidate who's only been in this role for a few weeks. And in the last few weeks, Vice President

Harris has done many things. She's traveled all over the country. She has participated in a myriad

different campaign events. She has headlined the Democratic National Convention last week. But we

had yet to see her in an interview

with a member of the press. And this is important for several reasons. Sure, there were her critics

who were suggesting that she was purposely avoiding the press. And there, even her supporters,

perhaps, that were getting concerned to not see her in a different

setting.

But as a journalist and a member of the American media, one of the reasons why we want our candidates

or any elected officials to interface with the press is at its purest form.

The press is going to be a representation of the people.

We're here to serve the people to provide you

access to candidates for office, to try to gather information that can be helpful to you as a voter.

So really, when someone is avoiding the press, it can also be viewed as avoiding the people.

And this is why an interaction with the press or relationship matters. This is why in a place like

America, there's no, nothing in the Constitution to say that we have to do press briefings every day,

but we've seen White House, several White House now do that because it's part of the practice

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