Vice President Harris will meet with Bret Baier for his first Fox News interview in a few hours

With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is taking on former President Trump in a margin of error showdown and is stepping up her talks with the media in the final stretch of the campaign.

Those efforts will intensify on Wednesday, as the vice president will sit down in battleground Pennsylvania with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier for an interview that will air on “Special Report” at 6 p.m. ET.

Harris will speak to Fox News following an afternoon campaign event in Bucks County, a key swing county in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia.

Baier said the Democratic presidential candidate is expected to sit for about 25 to 30 minutes around 5 p.m. ET, about an hour before “Special Report” airs live.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks at a campaign event with top Republican supporters of her campaign at the White House in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, on October 16, 2024 (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

“We’re going to let it run uninterrupted and unedited the whole time,” Baier said on the eve of the interview.

The vice president's first formal interview on Fox News will give her a chance to speak directly to viewers across the ideological spectrum who don't typically watch rival cable news networks CNN and MSNBC.

“Special Report” is consistently one of the most-watched shows on cable news, and the show's Common Ground segment features political leaders from the other side discussing the issues of the day in an effort to find compromise.

“We have many eyes. We have Democrats, independents and Republicans,” Baier said. “We have the largest news audience on cable television. And that will probably get a lot more attention. I think 'tough but fair' is what I said. And I think that’s what they’re going to see.”

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Harris largely avoided interviews after replacing President Biden in the 2024 Democratic nomination in mid-July. Her first formal sit-down interview – with CNN – didn't happen until late August. But in recent weeks, she has stepped up her media appearances, including interviews with CBS News' “60 Minutes,” ABC's “The View,” late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert, radio host Howard Stern and numerous podcasts. Most of these encounters were perceived as friendly interviews.

But Baier's interview on Fox News could reinforce the impression that the vice president is ready to face tough questions in the final stretch of the campaign.

“She knows there will be difficult questions. She can handle it,” veteran Democratic strategist and communicator Chris Moyer told Fox News. “Going through that process and dealing with it puts you behind enemy lines a little bit.”

Moyer, a veteran of several Democratic presidential campaigns, argued that “doing well in this is a good boost to the campaign, and voters like to know that they're going to elect someone who doesn't just do friendly interviews.”

Vice President Kamala Harris will be interviewed by Fox News Channel's Bret Baier on Wednesday.

Harris is the first Democratic presidential candidate in eight years to do an interview on Fox News — 2016 standard-bearer Hillary Clinton spoke with Chris Wallace.

But leading Harris surrogates — including governors. Gavin Newsom of California and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, as well as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, made high-profile appearances on Fox News this summer and fall.

And Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota was interviewed on “Fox News Sunday” over the past two weekends.

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Aides to Harris' running mate reached out to Fox News to plan his second appearance.

“People deserve to hear where we stand on this. Vice President Harris and I have an agenda for a new way forward, a manufacturing agenda. I was just in Michigan this week. And I think people out there are still undecided.” “And I appreciate you. You ask good, hard questions and your audience gets a chance to listen,” Walz told the “Fox News Sunday” host last weekend.

Former President Trump holds a town hall meeting at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania on Monday. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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The meeting between Harris and Baier comes on the same day that Fox News is hosting a town hall with Trump, where the former president will answer questions on topics such as abortion and child care in front of an all-female audience.

Taped Tuesday in battleground Georgia, the show will air Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET on The Faulkner Focus.

Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report

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