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Elon Musk has extended an invitation to Vice President Kamala Harris to appear in an interview with him after his conversation on X with Donald Trump.
Musk, who owns X, formerly known as Twitter, engaged in an almost two-hour interview with the former president on his app's Spaces feature.
The audio-only interview covered a wide range of topics, with Trump even granting Harris a rare compliment by comparing her to his wife Melania Trump and labeling her a "beautiful woman."
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Following the interview, Musk returned to X and offered Harris, who is the presumptive Democratic nominee for November's presidential election, the same opportunity to appear on Spaces. "Happy to host Kamala on an 𝕏 Spaces too," Musk wrote on Monday.
Newsweek contacted Harris' representatives by email for comment.
X users reacted to Musk's offer in the replies.
"Kamala would never have the courage to do a one hour unscripted interview or conversation," wrote @wallstreetsilv.
Collin Rugg, founder of the Trending Politics media site, added, "I wouldn't hold your breath. Over three weeks. Not a single interview."
Blogger Mange Kimbabi had a different view, "And exactly why would she grant an interview to someone who has created a super pac to make sure she loses the election."
The presidential hopeful has come under fire for not as yet conducting any interviews since President Joe Biden stepped out of the race, including by Trump who accused the media of giving her a "free ride."
It was during this discussion about Harris' media presence that Trump praised her looks. He had been talking about the latest Time magazine cover, which featured an illustration of Harris with the headline: "Her Moment."
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"She looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live," Trump said of the Time cover. "It was a drawing, and actually, she looked very much like a great first lady, Melania."
"She's a beautiful woman, so we'll leave it at that."
Harris and her campaign team reacted to the Spaces interview, including mocking technical issues that saw the interview start 40 minutes late.
Musk blamed the technical difficulties on a "massive DDOS [distributed denial of services] attack," which is when a group or individuals have a network of computers that are used to contact a target website, in this case X, all at once in order to overload the site so that legitimate users can't access it.
"Trump's entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself – self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024," said Joseph Costello, a Harris campaign spokesperson, per The Guardian.
Despite not having done any media interviews since declaring her intention to run for the White House, Harris will engage in three presidential debates against Trump.
The debates will happen on September 4 on Fox News, September 10 on ABC and September 25 on NBC.
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