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The interview will air at 9 p.m. ET (0100 GMT) on Thursday, CNN
said in a statement on Tuesday.
It will be Harris' first interview since becoming the Democratic
candidate after President Joe Biden ended his campaign for
re-election on July 21 following a shaky debate performance.
While Harris has occasionally taken questions from journalists
on foreign and economic policies on the campaign trail, she has
yet to do a one-on-one media interview or hold a formal press
conference, prompting Republican presidential candidate Donald
Trump to criticize her.
CNN anchor Dana Bash will conduct the interview from the
battleground state of Georgia, CNN said.
Harris laid out some broad policy agendas at the Democratic
National Convention last week, promising a middle class tax cut
at home and a muscular foreign policy of standing up to Russia
and North Korea while backing a Gaza ceasefire and a two-state
solution in the Middle East.
She was expected to sit for one-on-one interviews where she will
be pressed for details in the final sprint to Election Day on
Nov. 5 when she and Trump face off in a tight race.
Trump has held press conferences and done media interviews in
recent weeks but they have mostly focused on criticizing the
Biden administration's record instead of detailing his own
policy proposals.
Harris was last interviewed in June, when she appeared on CNN to
defend Biden's policy record after the Biden-Trump debate and
acknowledged the U.S. president had a "slow start" in that
debate.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Rami Ayyub; Editing by Doina
Chiacu and Deepa Babington)
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