Kamala Harris is set to sit for a rare interview with conservative-leaning Fox News on Wednesday as her wide-ranging media blitz continues in the home stretch of the White House campaign.
The Democratic presidential candidate is set to answer questions from Fox anchor Bret Baier as she pushes to reach moderate and independent voters who may not yet be sold on her candidacy against former President Trump.
The sit down is Harris’ first-ever sit-down interview with Fox and comes as she steps out into less friendly media environments.
Harris answered questions Tuesday from Black listeners in Detroit on The Breakfast Club, a radio show hosted by Charlamagne Tha’ God, who has been fiercely critical of her and other Democratic politicians in the past.
She is considering an even edgier move to appear on Joe Rogan’s top-rated podcast, which has a right-leaning, mostly younger male audience.
The Democratic campaign strategy contrasts sharply with that of Trump, who is focused on building his potent advantage among the groups that already support him and is mostly appearing only on friendly media outlets.
He hopes to run up the score with white men without a college degree, while picking off significant chunks of voters in demographics that largely support Harris, like women, young people, those with a college degree and racial minorities.
Trump appeared Wednesday before an all-female town hall audience on Fox News, where he claimed to be a champion of women’s reproductive rights and a supporter of in vitro fertilization, even though he spearheaded the repeal of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that protected abortion rights.
“I’m the father of IVF,” Trump declared.
With less than three weeks to go and early voting underway in many states, there’s no surefire way of telling whose strategy will succeed.
Harris holds a narrow lead in national polls but is effectively deadlocked with Trump in the seven battleground states that will almost certainly determine the winner of the White House contest.
