Here's what to watch for during Harris and Walz's first TV interview

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are sitting for their first formal interview since she became the Democratic nominee during a CNN prime-time special airing Thursday at 9 PM ET. Dana Bash will conduct the sit-down, which the network is billing as “the next test in her presidential bid.” 

CNN says the interview “has taken on elevated significance because of the compressed race Harris is running after she became her party’s candidate and because of the way it mushroomed into an issue between the feuding campaigns.”

That might give you some sense of the attitude Bash and the network are bringing to the interview: Harris has something to prove to them and has to answer to GOP nominee Donald Trump’s criticism of her nascent campaign’s chosen media strategy. Bash could take a more balanced approach, of course. But the media hasn’t acquitted itself too well when it comes to Harris’ candidacy.