California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra is getting a lot of media attentionfollowing his relatively new statusas the Democratic frontrunner, but a pre-interview moment published Tuesday is giving opponents ammunition for his handling of the press.
KTLA sat downwith Becerra, a former Health and Human Services secretary, for an interview about his candidacy, but before the first question was asked, even the media outlet said it “got off to an awkward start.”
Becerra asked the reporter at the beginning, “By the way, this is a profile piece, this is not a gotcha piece, right?”
The reporter, Annie Ramos, said the questions will be fair.
“So long it’s about the profile,” Becerra said.
Ramos said she doesn’t know how Becerra defines what a profile is, but wanted to get questions started. Becerra then laid out what he thinks a profile should be about.
“The way I describe profile is you talk about all the things that I’ve done, things I want to do, and along with some tough questions,” he said.
“But not only tough questions.”
Some political observers criticized the interaction as an insecure candidate concerned about too many uncomfortable questions.
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