CNN Scores First Interview With Kamala Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to her first major interview since she became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president five weeks ago.

Ms.

Harris will appear on CNN alongside her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, for a joint interview on Thursday in Georgia. Dana Bash, the CNN anchor who co-moderated the debate in June between President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, will conduct the interview.

CNN plans to tape the joint appearance on Thursday afternoon and air it that evening at 9 Eastern time.

The question of where and when Ms. Harris would sit for an extensive discussion with the mainstream media has started to loom over her candidacy. She has shown little enthusiasm for speaking with reporters in unscripted settings, outside of a handful of impromptu sessions on the campaign trail that left little opportunity for sustained questioning about her policy plans.

Within the TV news world, Thursday’s interview is a coveted prize for Ms. Bash and CNN, which has already played a consequential role in this year’s campaign. The network’s debate in June, with Ms. Bash and Jake Tapper as moderators, set off a panic among Democrats that led to Mr.

Biden’s withdrawal from the race.