While former President Donald Trump has now survived two assassination attempts, his opponent, incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris, has survived two interviews with the press. On Friday, Harris faced her second unscripted interview since June of 2021, this one with Brian Taff of Philadelphia’s Action News 6, an ABC affiliate. While Taff gently pressed Harris for answers regarding her policy positions and her plans for such issues as the economy, Harris responded with anecdotes about her childhood and mixed comments both touting and disparaging the record of the Biden-Harris administration.

Referring to Harris’s mention of “creating an opportunity economy” during last week’s presidential debate, Taff asked Harris to “drill down” on “specifics” regarding her plans for the economy. Harris spent five minutes summarizing her “middle-class” childhood before stating a single policy proposal.

The vice president finally addressed her plan for the economy, saying, “So my opportunity economy plan includes giving startups a $50,000 tax deduction to start their small business. It used to be $5,000. Nobody can start a small business with $5,000,” Harris said. “Opportunity economy means — look, we don’t have enough housing in America, we have a housing supply shortage,” she continued. Harris explained that she also intends to give first-time homebuyers $25,000 towards their down payments and plans to offer tax credits to private companies to build “three million new homes by the end of my first term.”

Taff then asked Harris how she could differentiate herself from unpopular incumbent President Joe Biden, saying, “Some people have a question, given maybe your current role as vice president of the United States, how different you are from Joe Biden.” Grinning, Harris responded, “Well, I’m obviously not Joe Biden.” Saying that the Biden-Harris administration’s policies needed to “catch up to the 21st century,” she continued:

“You know, I offer a new generation of leadership. And so, for example, thinking about developing and creating an opportunity economy where it’s about investing in areas that really need a lot of work, and maybe focusing on again, the aspirations and the dreams, but also just recognizing that at this moment in time, some of the stuff we could take for granted years ago, we can’t take for granted anymore. For example, another plan that I have that is a new approach is to expand the child tax credit to $6,000 for young families for the first year of their child’s life, because that is obviously a very critical stage of development of a child, and a lot of young parents need the help to buy a car seat or a crib or clothes for their kids.”

In the past eight weeks alone, Harris has attacked Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Trump’s running mate, for suggesting expanding the child tax credit — twice. First, her campaign claimed that Vance “says adults without children should have their taxes raised…” Then, less than two weeks later, the Harris campaign claimed, “JD Vance says he and Trump will ‘go to war against’ childless people, who he calls ‘sad, lonely, and pathetic…’” In both instances, the Harris campaign was referring to years-old video interviews in which Vance encouraged expanding the child tax credit.

Harris also vowed to implement gun control measures, saying, “I feel very strongly that it is consistent with the Second Amendment and your right to own a gun to say that we need an assault weapons ban. They’re literally tools of war.” She immediately and inexplicably added, “We’re not taking anybody’s guns away.”

Just two days before a second assassination attempt was made against Trump, Taff asked Harris if she could explain Trump’s “historic appeal in the country.” He asked, “I wonder how you distill it. What do you understand his appeal to be, and how do you speak to his voters? Or maybe just people who share his values but are open to something else?” Stammering at first, Harris replied, “I, based on experience and and a lived experience, know in my heart, I know in my soul, I know that the vast majority of us as Americans have so much more in common than what separates us.” She continued, “And I also believe that I am accurate in knowing that most Americans want a leader who brings us together as Americans, and not someone who professes to be a leader who is trying to have us point our fingers at each other.”

Harris then boasted of the Republicans and former Republicans who have endorsed her, naming former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former U.S. Representative for Wyoming Liz Cheney, who was primaried out of office, officially voted out of the Republican Party in her home state, and censured by the Republican National Committee.