Biden, Harris to sit with CNN’s Tapper in first post-election joint interview

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will sit for their first joint post-election interview on Thursday with CNN’s Jake Tapper.

CNN announced on Tuesday that portions of the Biden and Harris interview would air during Thursday’s “The Lead” starting at 4 p.m. and “The Situation Room” at 5. 

The full interview will be shown during an hour-long special at 9 p.m. Thursday, which will be simulcast on CNN International and in Spanish on CNN en Español.

Tapper will interview the former vice president and the current California senator in Wilmington, Del., Biden’s hometown, from the same theater in which he has announced some of his top administration officials. 

Biden’s first interview as president-elect was conducted by NBC News’s Lester Holt last week.

Biden this week named the top members of his economics team, which will focus on reviving the U.S. economy struck by the coronavirus pandemic. The president-elect has said developing a COVID-19 relief package would be one of his priorities when he enters office in January. 

Last week, Biden announced his nominees for his foreign policy and national security officials, and on Sunday, his team declared he will have an all-female White House senior communications team. 

Many of the picsk are dependent on Senate approval, and it’s unclear which party will control the upper chamber after two runoffs in Georgia on Jan. 5. If either Republican senator wins reelection, the Senate will remain in GOP control, but if both Democratic candidates win, the Senate would be split 50–50, with Harris set to cast tie-breaking votes for Democrats.

Biden is moving forward with compiling his administration amid President Trump’s refusal to concede in the election despite Biden widely being recognized as the president-elect for almost a month.