During CNN's interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Dana Bash asked about Kamala's time as vice president and the economic challenges Americans face with President Biden in office.
BASH: You talk about, you call it the opportunity economy. You are well aware that right now many Americans are struggling. There's a crisis of affordability.
One of your campaign themes is, we're not going back. But I wonder what you say to voters who do want to go back when it comes to the economy specifically, because their groceries were less expensive, housing was more affordable when Donald Trump was president.
VP Harris was focused, prepared and spoke eloquently and empathetically to the American people about the issues. She gave a two-part answer.
HARRIS: Well, let's start with the fact that when Joe Biden and I came in office, during the height of a pandemic, we saw over 10 million jobs were lost.
People, I mean, literally, we were all tracking the numbers.
Hundreds of people a day were dying because of COVID.
The economy had crashed.
In large part, all of that because of mismanagement by Donald Trump of that crisis.
When we came in, our highest priority was to do what we could to rescue America.
And today, we know that we have inflation at under 3%.
A lot of our policies have led to the reality that America recovered faster than any wealthy nation around the world.
