It has been more than a month since Vice President Kamala Harris ascended to become the 2024 Democratic candidate and since then she has yet to hold a news conference, conduct an in-depth sit-down interview, or publicly post her policy platform.

At least one of those shortcomings will soon be addressed, as Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have reportedly agreed to sit down together for an "extensive interview" with CNN's Dana Bash on Thursday, according to Fox News.

It remains to be seen whether Bash will ask Harris and Walz truly tough questions and, if so, whether she will press them for legitimate answers or be content with vague and obfuscating word-salad responses.

Questions that need to be answered

According to Fox News, the Harris-Walz interview with CNN's Bash will be taped Thursday afternoon and aired later in the evening on the network as a primetime special, and there are a lot of questions that need to be answered by both candidates.

For VP Harris, she will likely face queries about her evolving stances on various policies as well as the extent of her awareness of President Joe Biden's physical and mental health decline.

Gov. Walz will need to answer for his history of embellishing aspects of his background, such as his military service, and for the far-left progressive policies and laws he has implemented in Minnesota.

Trump campaign trolls Harris over announced interview

In response to the news, the Trump campaign said in an X post, "On Thursday -- 39 days since being installed as the Democrat nominee -- Kamala will sit for her first formal interview***," and added, "*Joint, since she’s not competent enough to do it on her own. **Taped, so her handlers have time to play damage control."

Likewise, senior Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller posted, "39 days in hiding for this? Complete [chicken s--t] for Kamala Harris to hide behind Tim Walz knowing he’ll get the tough questions on his doctored bio. Harris can’t even do 1-on-1 interview! & not even live, it’s taped, so they can edit Harris. Unbelievable."

"It's no coincidence that Kamala & Walz's first interview is scheduled for the Thursday night before Labor Day weekend. They already hope it gets lost -- and it hasn't even aired yet," the Trump campaign similarly trolled in a press release. "Kamala is clearly scared to do an interview on her own and it's pre-taped so they can clean it up if things go badly."

The Trump campaign also suggested several questions they'd like to see Harris be asked, including why she hasn't already implemented some of her proposed policies, whether she still supports several radical leftist proposals from years earlier, her failures on border security and illegal immigration, and why she concealed Biden's worsening health from the American people.

A major production to schedule an interview

For the overwhelming majority of politicians and presidential candidates on both the left and right, scheduling an interview is typically no big deal and something that can often be worked out with a single call between a producer and staffer.

Yet, according to Politico's Playbook on Tuesday, VP Harris' upcoming sit-down interview -- at that point, still an unsettled affair -- was a major ordeal that had been weeks in the making and reportedly involved more than a half-dozen campaign advisers and staffers to coordinate and negotiate before a final decision was made.

The process included fielding requests from various networks and journalists, determining the best time and place to conduct it, establishing narratives and ground rules about what would be discussed, and playing into Harris' strengths while avoiding her weaknesses, given her less-than-stellar performances in the handful of previous sit-down interviews she's done since becoming the vice president three and a half years ago.

In a separate report from Politico, the lack to this point of a legitimate sit-down interview was listed as one of the major "obstacles" and "warning signs" for her campaign that Harris would need to overcome, with the others being the "tight polling" in crucial battleground states, the ongoing debate over the debates, her lack of a clear policy platform, and her poor showing among certain demographic groups, particularly men and white working-class voters.