Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina said on MSNBC Sunday that the Kamala Harris campaign team is being forced to make tough decisions in advance of the election.
“[I]n politics you have three things: you have time, you have money, and you have volunteers,” Messina said. “And the one thing of those three you can’t go get more of is time. So there’s really difficult decisions being made in Wilmington right now about what you do with her time, what you do with the surrogates’ time.”
“It’s why you see these campaign people on TV and they look absolutely exhausted, because everyone is telling them they’re a band of idiots, and they should do it their way, and they have to make really, really difficult decisions,” Messina said of Harris’ campaign staff.
The Harris campaign has faced criticism for its relative lack of interviews, with former President Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, sitting down for at least 88 interviews since the Harris-Walz ticket was formed in early August, compared to at least 48 unscripted interviews for the Democratic presidential ticket thus far.