Also, in the lawyers' filing that you quoted, "...President Trump — the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election..." - well, that is not according to the polls I've been looking at e.g. The Hill & DDHQ but as you say, the only poll that matters is the election.

I watched a few snippets of the CNN interview with Harris and Walz, mostly on the Oz TV show Planet America Fireside Chat. One of the possible explanations proposed by John Barron for Harris' hesitation in conducting live interviews was that, being a Prosecutor she would be carefully weighing every word she utters in a courtroom context so she may be weighing everything she says in interviews as well. That makes a nice change from listening to Trump's out of control utterances.