Kamala Harris agrees to Fox News interview

Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, the network announced Monday.

The interview will be recorded in Pennsylvania and will consist of 25 to 30 minutes of questions. It is scheduled to air on October 16th at 6pm EST on Baier’s show, “Special Report with Bret Baier.”

Baier serves as the network’s main political anchor.

Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, will not be the first candidate to enter hostile territory. His running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), has appeared on “Fox News Sunday” the past two weekends.

Harris’ media appearances have increased sharply in recent weeks, with interviews on “60 Minutes,” “The View” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” She also did a live interview on “The Howard Stern Show” and appeared on “Call Her Daddy,” a popular podcast.

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Meanwhile, Harris’ Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, backed out of a scheduled interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he had agreed to. In a furious speech, he then demanded that the century-old network be taken offline.

David Plouffe, a senior adviser to Harris, said Trump failed the CBS interview because he is “afraid” of many things.

“Scared of the debate stage,” Plouffe tweeted on Oct. 1, referring to Trump’s reluctance to debate Harris a second time after they faced off in September. “Scared of 60 minutes. And his campaign team – after the last three days of increasingly unbalanced and unstable speeches at his rallies – is clearly afraid of exposing him beyond comfortable limits.”

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung called the story “fake news” and disputed that Trump had agreed to a “60 Minutes” interview beyond “initial discussions.”