Tim Walz to Sit Down with Fox News for Solo Sunday Interview – His First Since DNC – Amid Post-Debate Criticism
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Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz will sit down with Fox News anchor Shannon Bream for a Sunday morning interview – his first since he joined Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 ticket.
Walz has been dogged by critics over a narrative he has been dodging the national media since the Democratic National Convention. While Walz sat down alongside Harris in August for a joint interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, the Minnesota governor has kept a low profile since, mostly opting to speak at local campaign events.
There was a consensus among the pundits that the Democrat either lost or was unprepared for Tuesday’s debate against Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).
After the debate, Bash said on CNN, “I think the lack of interviews that he has done with national media, with local media, it showed he needed more reps.”
Saturday afternoon, Fox News announced Walz had agreed to sit down with Bream on the Fox News Sunday X account:
The Harris campaign had not commented on the interview, which will air at 2 p.m. ET Sunday, as of the time of publication.
Throughout the last week, Walz had faced plenty of heat for being generally unavailable to reporters with just weeks until the November election. Some critics claimed he was not ready for primetime because he had not faced enough tough questions.
Prior to Tuesday’s debate, CNN’s Jake Tapper said:
I’m bewildered a little bit by the absence of both the presidential candidate and the vice presidential candidate on television since they became the nominees. Because that’s how people get to know you and they haven’t really spent a lot of time with either of them before now. So, I also think that it may be a little bit of a problem for Walz having not done this.
Democratic strategist David Axelrod replied he also found it “bewildering” that Walz and Harris had not been more accessible to the media and commented their ticket could “benefit from just being out there more.”
