the strategy of the Harris campaign is to get their candidate and her running mate in front of a friendly camera and a friendly questioner on a Thursday night in high summer right before a long holiday weekend it is carela Harris's first interview since Joe Biden left the campaign and she's getting a lot of help Tim Waltz will be with her the Wall Street Journal calls him her interview crutch he's there to take up at least half the time and to jump in when it sounds like a word salad is coming Harris is being Shield her campaign wants to avoid awkward questions on her flip-flops when and why did she change her mind on the border the evv Mandate Medicare for all and fracking and when did she know that Joe Biden was cognitively challenged and couldn't stay in the race when you know that Harris wants to gloss over all of this but voters deserve real answers to strong questions her campaign according to axio is badly split between holdovers from the Biden campaign and newcomers from the Obama camp