Kamala Harris ripped for doing first sit-down interview with Tim Walz 25 days after Biden dropped out

Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz are taking heat after doing their first sit-down interview since becoming the party's nominees not with the media but with each other. 

The Democratic presidential nominee has not held a single press conference or done a sit-down interview with a member of the media since she took over the top of the ticket 25 days ago with President Biden's exit from the 2024 race on July 21.

While they have mostly avoided taking questions from the press, Harris and Walz did release a clip teasing a full conversation with each other.

Conservatives online ripped the 'conversation' trailer ahead of its release on Thursday as 'scripted' and 'fake' while accusing Harris and Walz of hiding from interviews.

Kamala Harris in a video of a conversation she had with running mate Tim Walz. The campaign released the clip as the vice president is facing pressure to sit down for an actual interview or hold a news conference, neither of which she has done since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee 

In the video clip, Harris and Walz talk about her asking him to become her running mate. 

'I called you, Tim. I called you, Tim. You didn't answer, Tim,' Harris said with a laugh. 'What happened?' 

'The most important call of my life, it popped up and we didn't recognize the caller ID, and it went to, it went to voice mail,' Walz responds. 

The clip then shows video of Harris holding up a cellphone on speaker which goes to Walz' voicemail recording. 

'It is an amazing privilege. I'm excited. I just want to be part of the excitement that you're generating,' Walz tells the vice president. 

Conservatives on X rip the vice president for doing a sit-down conversation with her running mate but not an interview with the press

In the full ten minute feel-good video, Harris and Walz sit across from each other at a table while they talk about tacos, music and the future of the country.

'So Tim, what's your relationship to music?' the vice president asks. 

'For me, the transformational piece of music was Bruce Springsteen's "The River" which is a journey. You know all the tracks, and I'm that guy,' Walz responds.

The vice president talks about her mother having every Aretha Franklin album and how she loved Prince.

'I have to tell you, Tim. Even though you and I grew up in different parts of the country, yo remind me of the people I grew up with,' Harris says at another point.

During their sit-down in Detroit, Harris and Walz talk tacos, music and the future of the country

On the road, Harris has briefly answered reporters' questions on the airport tarmac, but she has not answered any tough policy questions.

The vice president told reporters last week that she wanted to do a sit-down interview by the end of the month, but the campaign has not revealed who she would sit down with for her first interview weeks after locking in the nomination. 

On the campaign trail, Harris and Walz political opponents Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have ramped up the pressure accusing the Democrats of hiding from the media while taking a series of questions themselves. 

Trump held a press conference last week in Florida and is holding another on Thursday in New Jersey. 

Vance has taken numerous questions from the media on the road and appeared for a series of sit down interviews with print and television journalists.  

Former President Donald Trump held a press conference last week at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. He is holding another one at his Bedminster, New Jersey club on Thursday

But Harris and Walz's avoidance of in-depth interviews and press conference is not just being raised by conservatives and their political opponents.

'Would it kill you guys to have a press conference?' CNN's Jim Acosta asked Harris communications director Michael Tyler on Wednesday. 

Despite being pressed, Tyler did not commit to Harris holding a press conference.

'Listen, the vice president and Gov. Walz have been busy criss-crossing this country since the launch of this campaign,' Tyler said.

CNN's Jim Acosta (left) stunned Vice President Kamala Harris' communications director Michael Tyler (right) on Wednesday by asking: 'Would it kill you guys to have a press conference?'

He noted thousands of supporters have been showing up for the Harris-Walz campaign rallies in battleground states.

'A campaign rally is not a press conference,' Acosta responded. 'She's the vice president, she can handle the questions, why not do it?' 

Tyler said 'we absolutely are going to do it' but then pointed to how Harris has answered questions from her traveling pool of reporters during recent campaign travel.