First Ever! Harris and Walz Set for Joint TV Interview 

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. Credit | AP
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. Credit | AP

United States: In the latest reports, VP Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, would sit down together on Thursday for their first-ever major TV interview regarding their presidential campaign. The duo would take a bus tour and travel towards the southeast of Georgia. 

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The interview will be hosted by CNN’s Dana Bash, through which Harris will try to shut down criticism that she had been abstaining. This would also give her a fresh platform to define her campaign and test her political mettle before her debate with ex-president Donald Trump, scheduled to be held on September 10, as AP News reported. 

During an election year, joint interviews are seen as a fixture in politics, where Biden and Harris, Trump and Mike Pence, Barack Obama, and Biden, and every one of them have had them at a similar point in the race. 

The difference is that those other candidates had done them solo as well, and Harris has not yet given an in-depth interview since she became presidential nominee five weeks ago. 

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris & Tim Walz. Credit | Getty Images
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris & Tim Walz. Credit | Getty Images

Harris and Walz remain unknown to voters 

As per AP News, Harris and Walz remained unknown to voters, unlike Trump and Biden, with whom the voters had already been acquainted and formed an opinion. 

The CNN interview is scheduled for 9 p.m. EDT Thursday during her two-day bus tour of southeast Georgia, stumping for the highly contested battleground state with a rally Thursday in Savannah. 

Harris campaign officials know that in its bid to defeat Trump in the November polls, it must chip away at the Republican dominance in all parts of the state. 

Vice President Harris has done interviews for print and news camera with the Associated Press and with many other organizations more often than the president did, except for Biden’s last-stage intensive media campaign after the disastrous first debate that marked the beginning of his campaign’s decline. 

This now forms part of a string of the Republicans’ favorite criticisms after Harris remained off the media for one month. The Trump campaign still counts the days she has been a candidate without doing an interview. 

On Wednesday’s talk show, Sanders, the former White House spokeswoman for Trump, said that Harris requires a “babysitter,” which is why Walz will be present. 

She said, “They know Kamala Harris can’t get through an interview all by herself. There is not a lot of confidence in somebody to become the leader of the free world and ask people to make her president of the United States when she can’t even sit down (for) an interview,” as AP News reported. 

Trump leaned heavily toward media interviews 

Trump, in contrast, leaned heavily toward conservative media outlets for interviews. However, he did participate in more open press conferences in the course of weeks preceding this writing, as the author of this paper established, as he tried to regain the attention that Harris’ rise took away from him. 

Following the interview with CNN, Walz would disembark, and Harris is expected to campaign on his own across the bus tour, with the next stop being a rally before returning to Washington. 

On Wednesday, the two went to a Savannah high school marching band, amusing the students, and went to a Savannah barbecue restaurant.