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Time magazine owner Marc Benioff called out Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday for turning down multiple interview requests from the magazine, contrasting her with President Biden and even former President Trump for their lack of transparency.

Benioff shared Charlotte Alter's feature story on Harris in Time magazine last week, which noted that Harris declined interview requests in her extensive story about what she would be like as president.

“Despite multiple requests, Time was not granted an interview with Kamala Harris — unlike any other presidential candidate,” Benioff wrote on X. “We believe in transparency and publish every interview in its entirety. “Why isn’t the vice president engaging with the public on the same level?” He added the hashtags #TrustMatters and #TransparencyMatters.

Benioff, a technology entrepreneur who founded Salesforce, linked to the full transcripts of interviews TIME conducted with Trump and Biden in the spring. At the time, Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee before dropping out of the race in July amid intense pressure from party leaders.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and Time owner Marc Benioff (Getty Images)

KAMALA HARRIS DECLINES TIME MAGAZINE INTERVIEW AS SHE CONTINUES TO AVOID THE PRESS

While the article was largely positive about Harris, Alter quoted an independent voter, Rodrigo Lopez, who was skeptical of Harris' shift to the left in the 2020 Democratic primary and her open attempt to move to the center in her 2024 campaign.

“Yet she has sidestepped the thorough accounting of her political evolution that Lopez seeks, including by rarely speaking to reporters,” Alter wrote. “When she gives interviews, she mainly prefers local media, cultural podcasts or friendly talk shows. Harris declined repeated requests to be interviewed for this story.”

“In contrast,” Alter added, Trump and Biden met with Time earlier this year for in-depth discussions about their views and policies.

Time is unlikely to be hostile to Harris. The liberal magazine has received praise from other media analysts for years for its melodramatic anti-Trump covers.

Alter also wrote a brilliant cover story about Harris in August, but didn't get an interview for it either. She cited a host of aides, advisers and supporters including Pete Buttigieg, CNN's Bakari Sellers and gun control activist David Hogg.

“Although Washington was caught off guard, the energetic campaigner of the last two weeks is the Harris that allies say they have known for years,” Alter wrote at the time.

Tensions are said to be rising between Biden, the White House and the Harris campaign: “Too much in their feelings”

Harris has stepped up her media appearances in recent weeks but, like Trump, has been largely limited to more congenial interview settings. On Tuesday, she spoke in a day with her supporters Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert and co-hosts of “The View.” She also recently recorded an appearance with liberal commentator Roland Martin, which was posted on Monday morning.

In her piece for TIME last week, Alter portrayed Harris as “more practical than ideological” after interviewing current and former advisers and aides, as well as policy experts.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at East Carolina University on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Greenville, North Carolina.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at East Carolina University on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Greenville, North Carolina. (AP Photo/David Yeazell)

“You can think of the Harris presidency as an iOS upgrade to the current administration: the operating system would remain the same, but with new features and better packaging. There are tonal differences between the two: Harris speaks more – and more comfortably – about abortion.” “She has more rights than Biden ever did, speaks with more empathy about the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and has pushed housing and small business in at the center of their plans to strengthen the middle class,” Alter wrote. “But by and large, allies and critics agree that there is little discernible political bright spot between the Democratic nominee and the president she replaced on the party ticket this summer.”

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Benioff and the Harris campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.

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