Vice President Kamala Harris was directly asked on Wednesday night to identify a significant legislative policy goal she would pursue if she became president but was unable to provide one.
The question came from an audience member at CNN’s town hall event, who inquired about “one major policy goal” she intended to pursue in Congress and the reasoning behind it.
“Well, there’s not just one,” Harris responded. “There’s a lot of work that needs to happen.”
“I think that maybe part of this point that — how I think about it is we’ve got to get past this era of politics and partisan politics slowing down what we need to do in terms of progress in our country,” she continued. “And that means working across the aisle.”
She stated that she had previously achieved results through bipartisan efforts and pledged to “work with Democrats, Republicans, and independents to address various issues.”
“Whether it be what we need to do in terms of housing and creating legislation that creates incentives for that,” she said. “What we need to do to reinstate the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do.”
“Whether it be what we need to do to actually invest in a substantial way in the industries of the future, in American-based manufacturing, in American-based industries where American workers and union workers have those jobs in a way that is good-paying jobs that gives people the dignity they deserve,” she continued. “All of those areas I plan on working across the aisle and with Congress, including the issue of immigration which we’ve got to fix.”
Kamala Harris was asked to name 1 thing she will try to get done as part of her legislative agenda
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 24, 2024
She could not name anything. pic.twitter.com/greqPQTQNg
Harris did not answer the question, leading to criticism from Dana Bash on CNN for avoiding the response.
“But what will she do? The question about her legislative priorities,” Bash said. “Name one. There wasn’t one.”
CNN’s Dana Bash on Kamala Harris’s lack of answers regarding her policies:
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) October 24, 2024
“But what will she do? The question about her legislative priorities, name one. There wasn’t one.” pic.twitter.com/rSfUX6SjOu
