Who is Kamala Harris talking to?

Kamala Harris has spent the better part of the last week off the campaign trail and planting herself in the middle of New York City, finally making herself available to questions about what kind of president she will be. She faced one minor tough grilling while appearing on 60 Minutes and has now completed what her own campaign referred to as a media blitz, appearing all in the same day on The View, The Howard Stern Show and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — all with hosts and moderators who have declared their unwavering support for Harris.

While traveling to New York, she marched toward reporters on an airport tarmac to pick a fight with Governor Ron DeSantis over a media report that he was refusing her phone calls. She accused him of politicizing disaster preparedness; however, both DeSantis and Harris’s own boss, the still sort-of-sitting president Joe Biden, both refuted this report. Biden even remarked that DeSantis was doing well and that he forwarded his personal cell phone number to the governor.

Many on the right are making a lot of more nonsensical answers from Harris. On 60 Minutes, for instance, moderator Bill Whitaker asked her why Americans still don’t know what she believes, given the many flip-flops of her positions. Her answer was that she was the vice president who has traveled the country. While appearing on The View, Harris made perhaps the biggest blunder of her campaign when asked by host and supporter Sonny Hostin what she would have done differently from Joe Biden over the course of the last four years. “There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact,” the vice president said.

Harris has spent a great deal of time attempting to reframe herself as the change-forward candidate, and that all seemingly went away. The Trump campaign swiftly put her answers into ads. Later, while appearing with Colbert and sipping from a Miller High Life (or at least pretending to), she once again failed the change test, answering an almost identical question by stating that she is obviously just not Joe Biden, the eighty-one-year-old man and human being.

The problem for Harris in all of this is not necessarily her incomprehensible word-salad answers that offer nothing about the policy of governing the country, but that she’s not talking to any audience she already hasn’t captured. The View is an out and proud progressive daytime therapy session for Democratic audiences. Howard Stern has not been the loud, brash, crude host he once was since the days of Covid and has basically become everything he used to hate about establishment one-thought media. He didn’t even ask Harris to remove her top. Stephen Colbert’s late-night variety program has become little more than a late-night group therapy session for libs.

Since Harris has been off the campaign trail, Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was nearly killed by a would-be assassin. There was a memorial shrine in the audience; at times the night offered a more serious and somber tone for Trump than what the country is used to. Trump is off to Wisconsin this week and later to Scranton, Pennsylvania, for a rally in Joe Biden’s hometown. JD Vance will be campaigning in Arizona.

Kamala Harris being ushered around New York City in the final weeks of the campaign has eerie shades of Hillary Clinton opting to spend her final weeks with the cast of Hamilton and Gwyneth Paltrow. Maybe this strategy of hiding Harris away until the very last moment when not enough voters can make sense out of her final pitch and answers will work, but if it doesn’t, her campaign strategy will be studied for years to come.