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(NewsNation) — Two weeks earlier Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is shifting her media strategy arsenic she makes her transportation to voters.
Harris wasn't connected the run way Tuesday but successful Washington, D.C., attending briefings and gathering with staff. She was scheduled to beryllium down for 2 media interviews.
That is portion of her evolving media strategy, giving reporters much entree and chances to inquire questions respective times a day, doing much sit-down interviews and mostly being much unfastened to questions.
The alteration comes arsenic erstwhile President Donald Trump has been shown to have a flimsy lead successful respective cardinal battleground states.
Harris has been sharpening her attacks connected the erstwhile president, utilizing her last connection to punctual voters of who she says Trump is and wherefore voters rejected him 4 years ago.
On the trail, she's made her transportation to undecided and Republican voters, informing that "the consequences of him being president of the United States are brutally serious."
"I bash judge Donald Trump to beryllium an unserious man, but the consequences of him being successful the White House again are brutally serious," Harris said. "He has been manipulated and is truthful intelligibly capable to beryllium manipulated by favour and flattery, including from dictators and autocrats astir the world."
Voters astatine her lawsuit successful Pennsylvania who spoke to NewsNation agreed.
"What she said astir being a conservative, that if you're genuinely a conservative, it's astir the Constitution and believing successful who's going to support the Constitution," said elector Julia Dischell. "I deliberation that's a large takeaway, particularly for Republicans who whitethorn consciousness that Trump doesn't talk with them."
However, the absorption connected Trump takes clip distant from Harris' absorption connected herself and her policies.
While President Joe Biden has been touting the Biden-Harris administration's work, determination person been nary solo appearances from the president campaigning for Harris, and sources accidental that whitethorn not hap earlier predetermination day.
That comes arsenic Harris has accrued her region from her erstwhile moving mate, trying to make her ain lane.
But that tin beryllium a situation for voters who clasp her accountable for the past 3 1/2 years since she was portion of the administration.
Biden spoke highly of Harris astatine an lawsuit Monday night.
"I cognize the powerfulness of women successful this country to get things done and uplift the adjacent procreation of pioneers. Proving a pistillate tin bash thing a antheral tin do, and past some, and that includes being president of the United States of America," helium said.
Meanwhile, Harris has tried to region herself.
"Needless to say, excavation volition not beryllium a continuation of the Biden administration," she said. "I bring to it my ain ideas, my ain experiences. But it is besides astir moving past what, frankly, I deliberation has been the past decennary of American sermon being influenced by Donald Trump."
On Thursday, Harris volition run alongside erstwhile President Barack Obama for the archetypal clip since she replaced Biden astatine the apical of the ticket.
