Vice President Kamala Harris has finally agreed to sit for her first sit-down interview since becoming the de-facto Democratic presidential nominee following President Biden’s unprecedented decision to suspend his re-election campaign after the primary process had concluded.
The Trump Campaign has repeatedly attacked Harris over her refusal to sit for an interview. In the 39 days since she became the de-facto nominee, Harris has yet to sit for a formal interview or take questions at a press conference. In early August, the Harris Campaign did say she would be sitting for an interview by the end of the month, though the campaign had not provided additional details for weeks.
On Tuesday, Harris confirmed that she will be sitting for an interview with CNN, a left-leaning network whose hosts and reporters have repeatedly expressed anti-Trump opinions.
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Harris will not be alone, however, as she will be joined by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, her running mate.
The interview, which was conducted by CNN’s chief political correspondent and anchor Dana Bash, will air at 9 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday.
Social media users responded with outrage and ridicule upon learning that after more than a month, Harris appears incapable of speaking to the media on her own, even when the host has referred to her political opponent as a “sexist,” urged the Supreme Court to disqualify Trump from the ballot, and praised the Biden-Harris Administration, as Dana Bash has.
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“Kamala Harris bringing Walz to her first interview is like the young job candidates who bring their parents to their first interview,” said best-selling author Carol Roth. “I wouldn’t hire either.”
Fox News hist Joe Concha question why the Harris-Walz interview is being pre-taped as opposed to a live discussion. “And why isn’t Harris doing this solo? Dana Bash will conduct the interview, the same ‘anchor’ who insisted recently that Harris wasn’t the Border Czar,” Concha wrote in an X post.
“The fact that there is so much internal turmoil over doing A SINGLE INTERVIEW is itself deeply revealing. This is not a ‘big decision.’ It exposes their lack of confidence in her and is making something that should be routine into a high stakes event,” wrote veteran political commentator Marc Thiessen.
According to a report from Politico, some Harris staffers are concerned that sending either Harris or Walz out for a solo interview could prove disastrous due to a lack of a definitive policy platform. While the vice president has offered a handful of policies — including price controls on food and an end to her own administration’s electric vehicle mandate — the Harris-Walz campaign has yet to release an overall platform.
“One of the issues that Harris world is currently working to address is how to deploy running mate Tim Walz in the media,” Politico reported. “The danger in sending him out to do big solo interviews is that he might not have a full command of where Harris is on every issue. As someone pointed out to us last night, Harris talks about the “opportunity economy” but if Walz were asked to define it, would he know how?”
