Vice President Kamala Harris has spent the 35-plus days since being anointed as the Democratic Party’s nominee by President Joe Biden by avoiding a sit-down media interview or a formal press conference, and she’s been roundly criticized for that.

This week, however, the VP’s campaign announced she had agreed to be interviewed by CNN’s Dana Bash, but that arrangement quickly drew even more criticism after it was discovered that she would be bringing her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, along with her.

On Tuesday, CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings criticized Harris for bringing Walz, arguing that this move highlights her perceived weakness as a candidate.

Jennings participated in a panel discussion on CNN with anchor Anderson Cooper, who raised the question of whether, after nearly 40 days without a single interview or press conference since Harris became the Democratic Party’s de facto 2024 nominee, critics would highlight her ongoing refusal to appear for an interview solo.

“Is the line now going to be, well, why isn’t she doing it by herself?” Cooper asked.

“Yeah, I do think people are going to bring that up,” Jennings replied, saying that while he had “great confidence” in both the network and anchor Dana Bash, he agreed it was not a great look for Harris to bring Walz along.

“I think it’s incredibly weak — weak sauce — to show up with your running mate. The fact that they don’t have enough confidence in her to let her sit, herself, the actual top of the ticket, and do a single interview …” Jennings continued. “I think the hand-wringing and gyrations over this over the last month show a troubling lack of confidence in her political ability. Which also makes you wonder as a voter, well, what kind of president would you be if this kind of a small-time decision — can we do an interview or not? — what does that look like for your decision-making process?”

“So yes, I think Republicans are going to think it’s pretty weak to show up with, effectively, someone to take up half the time,” Jennings concluded, referring to Walz in an X post as Harris’ “emotional support animal” for the interview.

Former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told “Fox & Friends” host Ainsley Earhardt this week that “sexists and misogynists” within the Democratic campaign are “not allowing” Vice President Kamala Harris from traveling or speaking “alone” with the media because they “don’t trust” her.

Conway appeared on the show Tuesday, and Earhardt played a clip of Trump accusing Harris of “flip-flopping” on the Biden administration’s economic policies and then suggesting that voters “don’t really know what her policies are.”

Conway, a political analyst who served in then-President Donald Trump’s White House as his senior counsel, called on Democrats to “free Kamala already.”

“No question that they don’t trust Kamala Harris enough to speak regularly. This is amazing to me,” Conway continued. “There’s something exciting about a woman and sexists and misogynists in her campaign are not allowing her to travel alone or to speak on her own extemporaneously to members of the media. Have a town hall; don’t be afraid to take questions. They can make it as friendly as the pep rally that was the Democratic Convention if they want to. But free Kamala already. Let her out. Let us hear from her.”

After ripping Harris for refusing to publicly discuss all of her policy objectives, Conway went after the VP’s tax policy positions, labeling them “truly frightening.”

“And, Ainsley, it’s, you know, let’s get past the laughs and gaffes and get serious here. When she does tell us what her vision is, when she does promise these policies, that’s when she gets truly frightening: 65 percent estate death tax – that’s going to disseminate family businesses up and down this country, 44 percent on capital gains,” she said.

“And then the unrealized gains being taxed? Donald Trump is preparing for every single day by doing things like he did yesterday, facing the cameras, showing everybody the real people impact at the border, of the groceries and gas prices,” she said, adding he’s “out there” in swing states “facing the music” every day.