Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down with CNN on Thursday in her first major interview since becoming the Democratic Party’s nominee, the network announced Tuesday.
She will appear alongside her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for a joint interview with Dana Bash, the CNN anchor who moderated the June debate between former President Donald Trump and President Biden.
The interview will be taped Thursday afternoon and air at 9 p.m. on CNN, the network said. It will coincide with Ms. Harris’ bus tour through the battleground state of Georgia.
The last time Ms. Harris gave an extended sit-down interview with a major news outlet was June 24, before Mr. Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her.
That appearance was with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to discuss how the Biden campaign was attacking Republicans on abortion rights.
Since becoming the nominee 37 days ago, Ms. Harris has taken fewer than 15 questions from members of the media in brief, informal remarks, according to data compiled by several news outlets.
The Trump campaign has blasted Ms. Harris for the lack of interviews. Mr. Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, have had numerous media availabilities at the same time.
“I think it’s really disgraceful, both for Kamala Harris but also for a lot of the American media that participates in this stuff to have a person who has been the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for 17 days and refuses to take a single question from the American media,” Mr. Vance said in Wisconsin this month.
The interview will offer Ms. Harris her first chance to explain her position on several pressing domestic and foreign policy issues. Her campaign has not released major policy positions.
She also will be presented with an opportunity to explain her apparent reversal of positions on private health insurance, immigration and fracking. Her changes on those positions have been attributed to anonymous campaign officials through statements, but Ms. Harris has yet to address her supposed new stances on the issues.
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
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