Sacks @ 01:18:53Right
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Kamala Harris’s campaign will not be able to avoid media interviews and substantive policy proposals through the November 2024 election. They may largely avoid them until roughly the Democratic National Convention (late August 2024), but within about three months of this August 16, 2024 recording—i.e., by mid‑November 2024—Harris will be doing mainstream media interviews and releasing more detailed economic policy proposals.
I do think that this strategy can only work for so long... I don't think she can run out the clock for three months without doing interviews. I just think that I think she can do this for another week or so. I think that they're going to run this playbook through the convention, but eventually she's going to have to start doing interviews, and she's going to have to start putting out more substantive policy proposals.View on YouTube
Explanation
Evidence from the 2024 campaign shows that Kamala Harris did, in fact, move into exactly the pattern Sacks described: mainstream interviews plus more detailed economic policy roll‑outs well before mid‑November 2024.
Mainstream media interviews (post–"hide" phase):
- Aug. 29, 2024: Harris and Tim Walz did a 27‑minute primetime CNN joint interview, her first major national TV interview as the new nominee.(reuters.com)
- Sept. 25, 2024: She did her first solo one‑on‑one network interview as nominee with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, focused heavily on her economic agenda (“opportunity economy”), housing and tax policy.(theguardian.com)
- Oct. 7, 2024: A full "60 Minutes" election interview aired on CBS, where she discussed the economy, immigration, and contrasts with Trump.(people.com)
- Oct. 16, 2024: She sat for a contentious Fox News interview with Bret Baier, her first appearance on that network.(en.wikipedia.org)
- Late campaign: AP reported a "media blitz" including The View, Howard Stern, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in addition to earlier 60 Minutes and Anderson Cooper interviews.(apnews.com) Analyses still described her as doing fewer interviews than past nominees, but they also note she "stepped up" interviews in the final weeks.(businessinsider.com)
Substantive economic policy proposals:
- From late August onward, Harris rolled out detailed economic planks: an expanded Child Tax Credit (including a $6,000 newborn credit), a large housing plan with down‑payment support and construction incentives, and a ten‑fold expansion of the small‑business startup deduction.(abc17news.com)
- In early September she broke with Biden on capital‑gains rates, laid out specific tax changes (corporate rate to 28%, 28% top capital‑gains rate, 25% minimum tax on ultra‑wealthy), and packaged these into an "opportunity economy" agenda in a high‑profile Pittsburgh speech.(theguardian.com)
All of this occurred in September–October 2024—well within three months of the Aug. 16 podcast and well before the Nov. 5 election—matching Sacks’s forecast that Harris would not be able to "run out the clock" without doing mainstream interviews and issuing more substantive economic policy proposals.