- Harris’ interview will air Wednesday on Special Report with Bret Baier
Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to her first-ever sit-down interview with Fox News Channel after dodging the unfriendly media since the start of the campaign.
The vice president will be interviewed by Bret Baier in Philadelphia on Wednesday after polls over the weekend showed former President Donald Trump chipped away at her lead.
She is expected to sit for 25 to 30 minutes for the segment that will air 20 days before Election Day.
After largely eschewing interviews after becoming the Democratic nominee in late July, Harris has been in the media spotlight lately.
Last week she appeared on a special Monday night episode of 60 Minutes.
Kamala Harris has agreed to her first-ever sit-down interview with Fox News after dodging the unfriendly media since the start of the campaign
On Tuesday, she traveled to New York for appearances on The View, Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show and the Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
She also recorded an episode of the popular but controversial podcast Call Her Daddy.
This week, she will speak with Charlamagne Tha God in Detroit on Tuesday before speaking with Baier on Wednesday.
Conservative critics have excoriated Harris for playing it safe with friendly interviewers like Stern, Colbert and the women on The View.
She also called CNN and The Weather Channel before Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida last week.
But she still avoids some traditional, mainstream media, such as Time magazine, with editor Marc Benioff complaining on Sunday that Harris has avoided a sit-down.
“Despite multiple requests, TIME has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris – unlike every other presidential candidate,” Benioff wrote on X.
Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier will conduct Vice President Kamala Harris’ first-ever interview with the conservative-leaning network, which has excoriated the Democrat for her failures on immigration
“We believe in transparency and publish every interview in full,” he added. “Why doesn’t the vice president interact with the public on the same level?”
Fox has long been a thorn in the vice president’s side on issues like immigration, wrongly calling her the “border czar.”
Harris was tasked by President Joe Biden with tackling the root causes of immigration.
That has opened it up to all kinds of immigration-themed attacks, while the number of border crossings has soared until recently.
Baier has worked at Fox News since the late 1990s and has built a reputation for fairness despite the network’s right-wing tilt.