Vice President Kamala Harris To Sit Down For Fox News Interview With Bret Baier

On Monday, Fox News announced that Vice President Kamala Harris will join the network for an interview on Wednesday with Fox host Bret Baier. The much-anticipated interview will challenge the Democratic presidential candidate on a range of issues. It is the first time Harris has interviewed at the right-leaning network since launching her presidential campaign.

The interview is set to take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 6 PM EST on Bret Baier's show, "Special Report." The presidential candidate will take questions from Baier for about 25 to 30 minutes and comes after her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), has ventured onto the network the past two weekends to take questions from Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday."

The Harris campaign's decision to interview on Fox News is surprising given that President Joe Biden has refused to sit for an interview with the network since becoming president. The last Democratic presidential candidate to entertain a Fox News interview was Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Democratic National Committee even barred the outlet from hosting a Democratic presidential primary debate in 2020, according to The New York Times.

After weeks of refusing to take any questions from the press at the outset of her presidential campaign after President Biden exited the race, Harris has begun to crisscross the media world as she makes her final pitch to voters heading to the polls in the coming weeks. Last week, Harris appeared on "Late Night with Stephen Colbert," "60 Minutes," ABC's "The View," and "The Howard Stern Show." The Democratic candidate will hold multiple interviews this week, including an interview with Roland Martin, The Shade Room, and "The Breakfast Club," as she tries to shore up support from black voters.

Vice President Harris' decision to venture to Fox News is likely an attempt to show that she can take tough questions on her various policy positions and her record as second in command throughout the Biden administration. The move is likely an attempt to shore up support with more conservative-leaning independents that could be critical to a Harris-Walz victory on November 5. The Harris campaign has been working to peel off right-leaning independent voters and anti-Trump Republicans as they promote endorsements from Republicans like former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), and others.

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