2024-10-17 07:55:03
Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down Wednesday for her first Fox News interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
She will take the stage in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state where Harris holds a slim lead over former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
The interview comes just a few weeks before Election Day and is part of the Harris campaign’s effort to ramp up her media appearances in a final push to reach undecided voters.
In the last few weeks, the Democratic nominee has sat down with CBS’ 60 Minutes, CNN, and ABC’s The View.
She also did a radio interview with The Breakfast Club cohost Charlamagne Tha God and appeared on Howard Stern’s show to reach Black and young male voters. Harris’ campaign also unveiled an “Opportunity Agenda” for Black men this week in an effort to chip away at Trump’s gains among minority voters.
And Harris’ media tour may not be over; multiple news outlets reported that her campaign is currently in talks about making an appearance on the popular The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, whose audience is primarily men.
Trump, meanwhile, made no secret of his displeasure over Fox‘s decision to interview the Democratic nominee. He lashed out at the network in a Truth Social post, saying he “would have preferred to see a more hard-hitting journalist” interview Harris, and accused Fox of giving too much airtime to Harris campaign officials.
“It’s not worthwhile doing Interviews on Fox, because it all just averages out into NOTHING,” the former president wrote. “FoxNews has totally lost its way!”
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What time is Kamala Harris’ interview on Fox News?
Harris’ interview with will air Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. ET. It will be taped near Philadelphia in the 5 p.m. hour and air immediately after as an ‘as-live’ on Fox’s Special Report.
How can I watch Fox News’ Kamala Harris interview live?
Viewers can watch the interview on the Fox News Channel. If you don’t have cable news access, you can also watch it on streaming services that carry Fox News. Those include Sling (Blue), fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, and DirecTV Stream.
Who is Bret Baier?
Baier is Fox’s chief political anchor, who signs off his flagship show every night with the line: “fair, balanced and unafraid.” He is one of the few prominent people on the network whose identity isn’t associated with conservative commentary.
But in the immediate aftermath of election night in 2020, some of Baier’s internal emails, made public as part of a defamation suit against Fox, showed him suggesting to Fox executives that the network should pull its controversial, but ultimately accurate, call of Arizona for Biden.
Baier said in the emails that he Arizona call was “hurting us,” and that “this situation is getting uncomfortable. Really uncomfortable. I keep on having to defend this on air. And ask questions about it. And it seems we are holding on for pride.”
“The sooner we pull it — even if it gives us major egg — and we put it back in his column, the better we are in my opinion,” he wrote.
Baier was anchoring the Fox election night broadcast and announced that Biden had won and Trump had lost. He has also said there was “no evidence of fraud” in that election.
This election cycle, Baier led Fox’s coverage of the Democratic and the Republican national conventions, and has also moderated Republican primary debates.
What to expect in the interview
Harris is expected to address a host of campaign issues during her one-on-one with Baier, including abortion, immigration, the economy, healthcare, and foreign policy.
Baier will likely press the Democratic nominee on her record on border security, which is a top concern for voters and an issue in which Trump consistently has an edge over Harris.
Baier revealed on Tuesday that the interview with Harris had been in the works for “a long time.” He said he pitched the sit-down to the campaign as a “tough but fair” interview that will be focused on issues concerning all Americans.
Harris will also likely be asked how she will handle the Israel-Hamas war and the Russia-Ukraine war, and the ways in which a Harris administration’s policies would differ from the Biden administration’s.
She is expected to zero in on her record on reproductive rights, as well as Trump’s fitness for office. Harris has repeatedly described Trump as corrupt and unfit for office, and this week she took a page out of Trump’s playbook when she played a video clip of her rival at one of her rallies.
The purpose of the video, she said, was to show that Trump is “increasingly unstable and unhinged.”
“He is someone who will stop at nothing to claim power for himself,” she told supporters in Erie, Pennsylvania. “And you don’t have to take my word for it. I’ve said for a while now: Watch his rallies. Listen to his words. He tells us who he is. And he tells us what he would do if he is elected president.”
