Kamala Harris will do an interview with right-wing broadcaster Fox Information on Wednesday, the news channel announced Monday, in the most dramatic moment yet in a recent media blitz by the Democratic presidential candidate.
The interview with Fox Information's top political host Bret Baier comes as Democrats have increased their presence on Fox Information, as part of an outreach to undecided voters, and after CBS Information's 60 Minutes became embroiled in a controversy when right-wing critics said they edited an interview. to make Harris seem more concise.
In a press release, Fox reported that the interview with the vice president will take place on Wednesday, October 16 and will air on the program Particular Report with Bret Baier at 6:00 p.m.
Harris' appearance comes after weeks of criticism that she was avoiding all but the softest gatherings, including with Oprah Winfrey, ABC's morning show The View, with former athlete Howard Stern and with Late Evening's Stephen Colbert.
Harris also appeared on the Name Me Daddy podcast. Meanwhile, Donald Trump will reportedly take part in Joe Rogan's Full Ship before Election Day.
Fox's announcement comes after Time magazine owner Marc Benioff complained Sunday that Harris had denied multiple interview requests. Benioff said the denial was “unlike any other presidential candidate,” including Biden and Trump.
“We believe in transparency and publish every interview in its entirety,” Benioff wrote in X. Why doesn't the vice president interact with the public on the same level?
Harris' meeting with Fox Information will be her first formal interview with the network, but not the first for Democratic campaign surrogates. With at least three times the viewership of CNN and MSNBC, candidates seeking votes often make Fox a pragmatic choice.
Nielsen media research shows that Fox Information is the highest-rated network in all swing states. According to a recent YouGov poll – 54% of Republicans, 22% of Democrats and 28% of independent voters had watched the cable station in the past month.
Jessica Loker, the network's vice president of politics, told Bloomberg that the network saw ratings go up when Democrats were present. Baier told axios: “If you build it, they will come.”
It's also a well-trodden path for Democrats this election cycle. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been on the network so often that he introduced himself at the Democratic Party convention in August with: “I'm Pete Buttigieg and you might recognize me from Fox Information.”
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Buttigieg said he was proud to go to conservative outlets to speak on behalf of Democrats because otherwise his arguments and facts would not be broadcast to the Fox audience.
So have Democratic governors Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, Wes Moore and Gretchen Whitmer, and senators Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, John Fetterman and Chris Coons.
Harris' appearance points to an effort to escape Democrats' ideologically aligned media bubbles in the effort to get votes.
“We have so many very close elections in swing states that even if you only get one or two points that you take away from the Republicans and put in your column, it can be the 10,000 votes that give you that swing state,” the University of Virginia said. political analyst Larry Sabato told The Guardian last month.