Friday Briefing: A Defining Harris Interview

The presidential election is less than 70 days away. This is what we’re watching.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, sat for the first major television interview of their campaign. It’s a critical opportunity for them to define their campaign, and will be broadcast on CNN at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Here’s how to watch.

Harris has taken few questions from reporters since President Biden ended his campaign. Astead Herndon, a Times political correspondent, explained the challenges of interviewing her and described his conversation with her last year as “arduous.”

“She didn’t break eye contact,” he told the On Politics newsletter. “It was intense. You feel on trial.”

In other campaign news: Donald Trump reposted an image on his social media platform that implied that Harris had traded sexual favors to help her political career. It was the second time over the past two weeks that Trump shared content making sexually oriented attacks against his opponent.

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