Fourth, it's not just the crazily compressed calendar for Harris, it's that she was going to be running on the Biden record and now she has to do that AND affirm her own positions on major issues. Does she break with him? On what? How hard? 

Fifth, sure, [nods in the direction of three decades of communications aides], a press conference may be high-risk, low-reward for Harris/Walz. But the longer they don't do a proper q-and-a, the tougher that q-and-a will be on both sides.