Vice President Kamala Harris did her first solo interview Friday with an ABC affiliate, choosing the same network that interviewed her. This week's partisan presidential debate – But he still managed to tackle the easier questions.
He replied Five Questions from Action News 6 ABCThe interview, from a local affiliate of ABC News, came just days after he assisted the moderator in the ABC debate with Donald Trump. By providing fact checks on former presidents but not about him,
An ABC moderator for this debate said, Linsey DavisHarris is a member of the sorority and Dana Walden, a Disney executive whose portfolio includes ABC, One of the Vice President's close friends,
Action News 6 ABC anchor Brian Taff asked Harris, 59, what specifically she would do to lower prices as president.
“Well, I'll start with this. I grew up in a middle-class family. My mom raised my sister and me. She worked really hard,” she said, talking about her neighborhood, where people “took pride in their lawns.”
Harris further said, “We Americans have beautiful character. We have ambitions, aspirations and dreams. But not everyone has access to the resources that can help them fulfill those dreams and ambitions.”
She did not elaborate on how she would reduce prices, but she highlighted her proposed policy. Providing $25,000 in grant funding to new homeowners and giving tax breaks to new small businesses.
Harris also said she is “clearly not Joe Biden” because she offers an “opportunity economy” and “a new generation of leadership.”
“For example, thinking about growing and creating an opportunity economy, which includes investing in areas where there’s really a lot of work that needs to be done,” she said, seemingly searching for words.
The vice president said she wouldn't “take away anybody's guns” and that she supports the Second Amendment, but would support a ban on “assault weapons” and “universal background checks.”
“They are literally instruments of war,” Harris said.
Regarding Trump's appeal to voters, Harris again tried to get to the core of the question in a few sentences.
“I know in my heart, in my soul, based on my experience and my life experiences, that most Americans have a lot more in common than the things that separate us,” she said.
“And I also believe I’m right that most Americans want a leader who brings us together as Americans, not someone who claims to be a leader who makes us point fingers at each other,” she said of Trump, arguing that voters want someone with “common sense.”
“I think that given the amount of hate and division that we've seen from Donald Trump, people are now more willing to say, 'Hey, let's put country first.'”
Taff finally asked Harris if there was anything she wanted voters to know about her.
“I don't know. I mean, it's probably not that different from what anybody is watching right now. I love my family, um, one of my favorite things that I haven't been able to do lately is have Sunday family dinners. I love to cook. I have incredible friends,” Harris said.
“I've actually had a career like that, and I said this the other day, you know, as a career prosecutor, I never asked a victim of a crime if they were a Republican or a Democrat. The only thing I ever asked them was, 'Are you OK?'” he said, adding that he believes most Americans take that same viewpoint.
Harris staying away from the press She remained the Democratic candidate most of the time.
He had his first debate More than a month after taking office, President Biden, 81, spoke with CNN about his running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
She then appeared on two local radio shows before taking the debate stage with ABC on Tuesday against Trump.
Harris has been criticized for not giving the press more access to her campaign, with less than two months until the election.
