Vice President Harris will sit down in a few hours for the first Fox News interview with Brett Baier

Facing Former President Trump Amid a showdown over the margin of error, with less than three weeks until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is intensifying her conversation with the media during the final stretch of the campaign.

As that effort ramps up Wednesday, Vice President Fox News' top political anchor, Brett Baer, ​​is scheduled to sit down in battleground Pennsylvania for an interview that will air on “Special Report” at 6pm.

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

The Democratic presidential candidate is expected to sit for about 25 to 30 minutes at 5 p.m. ET, about an hour before the “special report” airs, Baer said.

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“We’re going to run it uninterrupted, unedited, from start to finish,” Baer said the day before the interview.

The vice president's first official interview on Fox News will give him the opportunity to speak directly to audiences across the ideological spectrum who typically don't watch rival cable news networks CNN and MSNBC.

“Special Report” is regularly among cable news' most-watched programs and features political leaders from across the aisle discussing issues of the day with the goal of finding agreement in the program's Common Ground segment.

“We have a lot of eyes. We have Democrats, independents and Republicans,” Baer said. “We have the largest cable news audience. And it will probably get a lot more attention. I think what I presented was difficult, but fair. And I think that’s what they’ll see.”

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Harris has largely avoided interviews since replacing President Biden at the top of the Democrats' 2024 ticket in mid-July. His first official interview – with CNN – only took place at the end of August. But he has increased his media presence in recent weeks, including interviews with CBS News' “60 Minutes,” ABC's “The View,” late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert, radio personality Howard Stern and several podcasts. Most of these meetings were considered friendly interviews.

But the interview with Baer on Fox News could fuel the idea that the vice president is open to tackling difficult questions in the final stretch of the campaign.

“He knows there will be difficult questions. He can handle them,” experienced Democratic strategist and communicator Chris Moyer told Fox News. “By going through this process and conducting it, you will be a little behind enemy lines.”

Moyer, a veteran of several Democratic presidential campaigns, argued that “being good at this is a good boost to the campaign, and voters want to know they are going to elect someone who can't just conduct friendly interviews.”

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

Harris became the first Democratic presidential candidate in eight years to give an interview to Fox News – with 2016 standard-bearer Hillary Clinton speaking to Chris Wallace.

But Harris’s main surrogates – including the administration. California's Gavin Newsom and Pennsylvania's Josh Shapiro and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg have all made prominent appearances on Fox News this summer and fall.

And Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota has been interviewed on “Fox News Sunday” the past two weekends.

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Aides to Harris' running mate contacted Fox News for his second appearance.

“People deserve to know where we stand on this. Vice President Harris and I have an agenda, you know, a new path forward, a production agenda. I was in Michigan this week. And I think people are still undecided there. And I appreciate you asking good, tough questions and making your audience listen,” Walz told the “Fox News Sunday” host last weekend.

Former President Trump holds a town hall meeting at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center on October 14, 2024 in Oaks, Pennsylvania. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Harris' meeting with Bayer comes on the same day that Fox News will hold a town hall with Trump. The former president answered questions from an all-female audience on topics including abortion and child care

The show, taped Tuesday in Battlefield Georgia, will air Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET on “The Faulkner Focus.”

Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report

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