副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯预计将很快面临她在大会后的第一次考验，届时她将参加周四黄金时段播出的正式采访。
美国有线电视新闻网周二宣布，哈里斯和她的竞选伙伴州长蒂姆·瓦尔兹将接受主播达纳·巴什的采访，这是自总统以来第一次接受记者采访乔·拜登退出比赛。
这次采访于美国东部时间晚上9点播出，正值哈里斯和瓦尔兹乘坐竞选巴士游览佐治亚州的战场，她面临特朗普竞选团队和记者越来越多的要求同意延长提问的电话。
哈里斯竞选团队的高级顾问伊恩·萨姆斯说，周一再次出现哈里斯会在月底“安排”一次面谈。
起初没有任何此类静坐的计划，这引发了共和党批评者对回避媒体的指责。
“她拒绝接受任何采访或新闻发布会，几乎30天了，她没有接受采访，”前总统唐纳德·特朗普本月早些时候在北卡罗来纳州的一次活动中谈到哈里斯。“你知道她为什么没有接受采访吗?因为她不聪明。她不聪明。”
他的竞选团队说，哈里斯正试图“躲避”新闻媒体，这肯定会在她会见媒体时抛出一些棘手的问题。
据报道，缺少媒体采访尚未伤害哈里斯，他的民调数字超过了总统乔·拜登在民主党候选人名单上的支持率538的全国平均投票率。截至周二，哈里斯的民调支持率领先于特朗普，为47.2%对43.6%;根据538的民调平均值，拜登退出竞选时，他的支持率为40.2%，而特朗普为43.5%。
哈里斯还激起了民主党人的热情，这些人在竞选周期的大部分时间里都缺席，并且拥有大量的追随者上周的民主党全国代表大会芝加哥.
此外，她选择了明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·瓦尔兹(Tim Walz)作为竞选伙伴，他的农村背景有助于选票传达出民主党人表示他们相信会在该国保守地区赢得选民的信息。
与此同时，特朗普似乎放弃了共和党人今年夏天称赞他的纪律。最近，他在哈里斯集会上谎报了人数并且似乎忘记了提及他将在密歇根的一次活动中公布的一项政策提案。
民主党人警告说，哈里斯在未来几周内有几个障碍需要清除。
其中一个障碍是即将举行的媒体采访，哈里斯可能不得不为拜登政府的决定辩护，并说明她的一些政策立场。
星期一，特朗普寻求聚焦哈里斯与拜登政府从阿富汗混乱撤军的联系，在阿灵顿国家公墓献上花圈，纪念造成13名美国军人死亡的自杀式爆炸事件三周年。
周一晚些时候，川普在底特律的一次活动中对国民警卫队队员发表讲话时声称，“由卡玛拉·哈里斯、乔·拜登(Joe Biden)造成的阿富汗羞辱，引发了美国在全世界的信誉和尊重的崩溃。”。
哈里斯还可能被追问在6月27日的辩论之前，她对拜登的精神健康状况了解多少。那天晚上，她敦促美国人不要以舞台上的“90分钟”来评价拜登，而要以“三年半的表现”来评价。
然而，同样的辩论表现引发了民主党高层长达一周的努力，试图将拜登从竞选中推出。
很少有人比他的副手哈里斯更了解拜登在幕后是什么样的人，一位采访者可能会就她私下目睹的事情向她提问。
哈里斯肯定会被问及加沙战争。她最近说，“我们需要停火”，但她是尚未帮助促成停火的政府成员。
南部边境的局势可能是采访者向哈里斯施压的另一个话题。共和党人将她与拜登任期早期未经授权的边境过境增加联系在一起，误导性地称她为“边境沙皇”。
面试官可能也会要求哈里斯回应最近对她的批评公开的经济计划在这篇文章中，她呼吁结束食品杂货的“价格欺诈”，这引发了一些共和党人的指责，称她想要“共产主义的价格控制”。
哈里斯本周将前往南乔治亚，在那里她将进行一次巴士之旅，并在乔治亚州的萨凡纳举行一次集会。
Harris and Walz agree to joint sit-down interview airing Thursday on CNN
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to soon face her first post-convention test when she sits for a formal interview airing in primetime on Thursday.
CNN announced Tuesday that Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz will be interviewed by anchor Dana Bash, marking the first sitdown with a reporter since PresidentJoe Bidenbowed out of the race.
The interview, airing at 9 p.m. ET, comes as Harris and Walz take a campaign bus tour of battleground Georgia and as she faced growing calls from the Trump campaign and reporters to agree to an extended questioning.
Ian Sams, a senior adviser to the Harris campaign,appeared reiterated on Mondaythat Harris would "schedule" a sit-down interview by the end of the month.
The initial absence of plans for any such sit-down prompted accusations by Republican critics of dodging the press.
"She refuses to do any interviews or press conferences, almost 30 days now, she has not done an interview," former President Donald Trump said of Harris at a North Carolina event earlier this month. "You know why she hasn't done an interview? Because she's not smart. She's not intelligent."
His campaign has said Harris is trying to "duck and hide" from the news media, which is sure to sling several tough questions her way when she meets the press.
The lack of a media interview has yet to hurt Harris, whose poll numbers are outpacing those of President Joe Biden when he was atop the Democratic ticket, accordingto 538's national polling average. As of Tuesday, Harris is polling ahead of Trump, 47.2% to 43.6%; when Biden left the race, he was polling at 40.2% compared to Trump's 43.5%, according to 538's polling average.
Harris has also stirred enthusiasm from Democrats that had been absent most of the campaign cycle -- and is riding a high followinglast week's Democratic National Convention inChicago.
Moreover, she chose a running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, whose rural background has helped the ticket craft a message Democrats have said they believe will make inroads with voters in conservative parts of the country.
All the while, Trump has seemed to abandon the discipline Republicans had lauded him for this summer. Recently, he hasmade false claims about the crowd size at a Harris rallyand appeared to forget to mention a policy proposal he had been slated to unveil at an event in Michigan.
Democrats have cautioned that Harris has several hurdles to clear in the coming weeks.
One of those hurdles is the pending media interview, where Harris would likely have to defend the decisions of the Biden administration and specify some of her policy stances.
On Monday,Trump sought to spotlightHarris' connection to the Biden administration's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, laying wreaths in Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate the third anniversary of the suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members.
"Caused by Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, the humiliation in Afghanistan set off the collapse of American credibility and respect all around the world," Trump claimed when he spoke to National Guardsmen at a Detroit event later Monday.
Harris is also likely to be pressed on how much she knew about Biden's mental fitness prior to the June 27 debate. That night, she urged Americans to judge Biden not on the "90 minutes" on stage but the "three-and-a-half years of performance."
Yet, that same debate performance set in motion a weekslong effort by top Democrats to nudge Biden from the race.
Few had a better understanding of what Biden was like behind the scenes than Harris, his No. 2, and an interviewer would likely challenge her about what she witnessed in private.
Harris would surely be asked about the war in Gaza. She said recently, "We need a cease-fire," but is a member of an administration that has yet to help broker one.
The situation at the southern border would likely be another topic an interviewer would press Harris on. Republicans have linked her to an increase in unauthorized border crossings earlier in Biden's term, misleadingly dubbing her the "border czar."
An interviewer might also ask Harris to respond to the criticism of her recentlyunveiled economic plan, in which she called for an end to grocery "price-gouging," prompting accusations by some Republicans that she wants "communist price controls."
Harris travels this week to south Georgia, where she will embark on a bus tour and hold a rally in Savannah, Georgia.
