White House News Photographers Association president said Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign team has engaged in an "unprecedented reduction in access" to the news media, according to an Aug. 28 letter from the association (WHNPA) to the Harris team obtained by Axios.
It adds to a growing frustration among the press corps about limiting access to leaders at the top of the Democratic Party.
That includes Harris, who has yet to do a solo TV interview and has avoided unscripted moments since she entered the race on July 21.
Jessica Koscielniak, president of the WHNPA, wrote to Harris' top aides last month protesting that "the four independent news photographer seats have been downgraded to one."
Koscielniak added: "The WHNPA strongly calls on the Harris campaign to reconsider the number of media seats allowed on Air Force 2."
The WHNPA wrote that the group heard the number of seats had to be reduced for security reasons and proposed either adding a "chaser plane" for additional media or the White House Correspondent Association (WHCA) reorganizing who gets a seat.
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