Reporters understandably and incorrectly believe that the most important thing a candidate can do is answer their questions.

The political press are complaining about a lack of access to Kamala Harris.

But of course, from WNYC in New York, this is on the media, I'm Brooke Gladstone.

On this week's show, with the election weeks away, we explain why pollsters failed in 2016 and 2020, and how to read the polls in

2024.

If the race is within about 5 percentage points, the takeaway should be that that poll is telling you it's

more or less tied. Plus at the presidential debate Harris came after Trump's

tariff plan calling it a sales tax on the American people, economists agree.

Tariffs led for a one-to-one increase in prices as those goods were entering the United States.

That meant that a 25% tariff would mean that

prices were 25% higher. It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York this is is on the media. I'm Michael Lohanger.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Oh, Kamala, Kamala, since ascending the blood-stained rungs of the Democratic ticket, the political media and

media and the undecided voters they quote have exclaimed we hardly know ye.

True she's given precious few interviews, which has reignited a debate over whether this

politician, like many politicians passed, is depriving voters of essential insights into who she is.

She should be talking to local press at every stop.

She needs to, she can't do it, she shouldn't be doing an interview and have it be like a big foot site.

It gives bigger scrutiny to it. The media and the public have legitimate

questions and she should face them. This is a political necessity.

Or whether she is merely depriving the political press of the oxygen it craves.

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