Vice President Kamala Harris' interview drought finally ended Thursday, but after 40 days as the presumptive and now official Democratic nominee for president, she has yet to hold an official press conference.

Under pressure to sit down for a substantive interview after weeks of stonewalling, she agreed to a sit-down with CNN's Dana Bash on Thursday in Georgia, joined by running mate Tim Walz.

Harris defended some of her noted policy flip-flops on issues like fracking and immigration, saying her "values" hadn't changed. She was also pressed on whether she had regrets about defending President Biden's mental acuity after his debate, given he dropped out of the race less than a month later. She also said she wanted to "turn the page on the last decade of what I believe has been contrary to where the spirit of our country really lies."

Bash pointed out Harris had been vice president for three-and-a-half of those years, but Harris countered she meant moving on from this "era," seemingly referring to the political rise of Donald Trump that began in 2015.

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Following Harris’ first sit-down interview, NBC News Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, who is known for her glowing Biden-Harris coverage, appeared unimpressed. 

"Harris keeps saying ‘my values haven’t changed’ while not explaining why her positions have changed," Alcindor wrote. 

As to when she'll do a formal press conference, that day may never come.

"You will not see one press conference from her in the next 75 days until Election Day," Fox News contributor Joe Concha predicted earlier this month.

NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck feels the vice president "obviously owes it to the American people to hold free-wheeling press conferences where reporters can, unlike what happened tonight with CNN's Dana Bash, ask follow-up questions."

"For every softball from, say, ABC or NPR, you'll hope a liberal journalist will show some courage to do the right thing," Houck told Fox News Digital. 

"The interview itself had a positive atmosphere. From the get-go in the hype video-like opening by Bash, CNN put forward a perception that this was an event, not a grinding fact-finding mission," Houck continued. "She missed a litany of topics with Harris. Allowing death row inmates to vote, closing ICE, defunding the police, ending private insurance, girl's sports, the filibuster, Jussie Smollett, the Minneapolis bail fund, systemic racism… those were just a few of the areas she could have touched on."

Former President Trump has sought to highlight the contrast in media availability between the two, sitting for several lengthy interviews in recent weeks and also holding a pair of press conferences.

Harris received mixed reviews for her showing on Thursday with Bash, where she took the majority of the questions but nevertheless had Walz there for support.

One point that received praise from liberals was her pointed dismissal of a question about Trump's suggestion that she didn't embrace being Black until adulthood. Calling attacks around race from Trump a tired "playbook," she told Bash to move on to the next question.

But conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings said the Trump campaign should be "salivating" over one of the revelations from the interview, which appeared to be her embrace of so-called "Bidenomics."

"She is making it clear that she will embrace and be a continuation of Biden's economic policy — his record — what they've done," he said. "She offered no remorse, no regrets, no introspection about anything they've done."

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By doing the interview, Harris met the bar she set three weeks ago that she wanted to schedule one by the end of the month. Whether pressure will grow for her to do more, and also her first solo interview as a candidate, remains to be seen.

"My fear is, because Bash wasn't like, say, CBS's Steve Kroft or NPR's Steve Inskeep salivating at the sight of Barack Obama, the liberal media will claim this and the upcoming ABC debate are sufficient interview time for the campaign," Houck said.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. 

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sat down for their first interview as the 2024 Democratic ticket on Thursday and only two words come to mind:

Dishonest. 

Trainwreckalicious. 

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The second word may not be an actual word, but it's appropriate. 

The edited and packaged interview, which was taped earlier in the day on Thursday, was also an example of missed opportunities for CNN anchor Dana Bash. 

To her credit, Bash did (gently) challenge Harris on her Etch-a-Sketch positions on the border and domestic energy, for example, but the answers from the Democratic nominee were on a Baghdad Bob level of lying. 

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On fracking:  

"I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking. As vice president," she said, "I did not ban fracking. As president, I will not ban fracking." 

There is zero evidence this claim is true. Zero. But Bash let it slide anyway. 

On the border, the conversation also became laughable: 

"My value is around what we need to do to secure our border. That value has not changed," Harris said. "I spent two terms as the attorney general of California prosecuting transnational criminal organizations, violations of American laws regarding the passage, the illegal passage of guns, drugs, and warnings across our border, about my values."

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So here we have the vice president reaching back to a time before she was vice president and before she was a U.S. senator to talk about how tough she was on the border. 

What an absolute joke and an insult to the intelligence of American voters. 

Here's what CNN’s Dana Bash should have asked: 

Question 1: You support taxing unrealized gains on capital gains. Some critics say that will tank the stock market. Explain why they're wrong.  

Question 2: You have voiced your support for sanctuary cities. Why do you believe they work?

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Question 3: You support free health care for those who enter the country illegally. How does that get paid for and why should those here illegally receive the same benefits as those in the country legally?

Question 4: You support cash-free bail laws at the time crime is driving citizens out of blue cities from New York to Chicago to Minneapolis to San Francisco. Why do you think cash-free bail laws are best for the community? 

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Question 5: You support biological men competing against biological women in sports. Why do you think that's fair given the clear advantage that poses a danger to female athletes? 

Bonus question: Can men get pregnant?

This is clear: there were dozens of questions that could have been asked but you get the point. Dana Bash and CNN dropped the ball here. 

And know this: It’s a safe bet that Vice President Kamala Harris will not do another interview before the debate on September 10. 

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We are heading into a holiday weekend now. Kamala Harris took nearly SIX WEEKS to do one interview. And based on her unsteady performance, it is all but certain we won't see much of her in any capacity before the debate, just as we didn't see President Joe Biden for days on end as he prepped for the June 27 debate in Atlanta. 

Obviously, it didn't matter as Biden and Harris have the same problem: Both turn into a human Chernobyl when a Teleprompter and scripted remarks are taken away from them. 

Millions will see clips from Thursday's interview from now through the weekend. How it plays remains unclear, but it's a good bet it will be a net-negative more than a net-positive. 

Nate Silver's 538 Forecast, as of Thursday afternoon, gave former President Donald Trump a better chance of winning in November than Harris. 

The honeymoon has come to an end, just as it did for Harris four years ago once America got to know her through interviews and debates that went poorly. 

In 2024, we may be seeing a sequel to that movie, which didn't end well for her when the 2020 presidential candidate dropped out before she even got to 2020. 

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