CNN’s Chris Wallace Pitches Himself For Kamala Harris To Prove She Can Face ‘Tough Interviewer’

CNN anchor Chris Wallace pitched himself as a first stop for Vice President Kamala Harris to face a “tough interviewer” after her introduction as the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Harris has maintained a breakneck schedule of campaign events and White House duties since the bombshell announcement that President Joe Biden would drop out as the nominee. But thus far, she has not done an extensive press conference or interviews.

Journalists Kristen Soltis Anderson , Lulu Garcia-Navarro , Reihan Salam , and Kara Swisher joined Wallace for this week’s edition of CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show on Saturday morning, during which Wallace laid out some of those milestones — and noted he had “one person in particular” in mind to handle that first tough interview:

WALLACE: I think Reihan is right that everything so far, she hasn’t put a foot wrong, Harris, but it’s all been scripted. It’s all been off the teleprompter.

Sooner or later, she’s going to have to hold a news conference. She’s going to have to do a tough interview. She’s, I think, going to have to debate Donald Trump. How long will the Harris bounce last?

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO: She’s going to have to do all that. I’m a journalist, so I would urge her to sit down with a tough interviewer, like anyone here on this side of the —

WALLACE: Well, I was thinking of one person in particular.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yes, I’m sure you were. I think that she obviously has to do a press conference. But I actually think that we are in a very tight race here. We’ve got less than 95 days until the election. It isn’t a lot of time. And what everyone’s attention has been focused on is Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s missteps. And so that really actually has given her an opportunity to do what the Democrats want her to do, which is to prosecute the case, not be on the defensive, but be on the offensive, because frankly, on the other side of this, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, it’s been one misstep after another.

WALLACE: But one would agree that when she gets asked these questions, particularly about a lot of the changes that she has made from a very liberal stance in 2019 when she was running for president, and some of the things he did as a prosecutor, then she will be on the defensive.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: She will be on the defensive, but she already tried to get ahead of this on immigration. It was just this past week. She talked about it. And I think she is going to have to answer these questions. These are legitimate questions. But on the other side of this, when you talk about J.D. Vance, I mean, there was literally an email, he said he hated cops. I mean, you know I’m talking about positions that are problematic for their own party.

Watch above via CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show .