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JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania -- Vice President Kamala Harris sat down one-on-one for an exclusive interrogation connected Friday with anchor Brian Taff of sister presumption 6abc successful Philadelphia.
It's the archetypal solo interrogation since she was selected arsenic the Democratic nominee for president.
Brian traveled to occidental Pennsylvania to conscionable up with the vice president arsenic she was campaigning successful Johnstown.
She visited 'Classic Elements,' a tiny cafe and bookstore arsenic portion of a run plaything done the Keystone State.
Pictured: 6abc Action News anchor Brian Taff interviews Vice President Kamala Harris connected Friday, Sept.13, 2024.
Harris' emergence to the apical of the summons has been thing but ordinary. She has had a precise shortened model to convey her biography and her priorities to the voters she's going to request to triumph successful November.
So if the archetypal signifier of her shortened candidacy was her biography phase, you mightiness spot this closing section is the argumentation one: telling radical what she's going to bash connected topics similar transgression and nationalist safety, 2 large issues for the country.
On guns successful America
Brian asked Harris wherever she draws the enactment successful America connected weapon ownership and weapon use.
"I americium a weapon proprietor and Tim Walz, my moving mate, is besides a weapon owner. We're not taking anyone's guns away. I enactment the Second Amendment and I enactment tenable weapon information laws," Harris said.
"I consciousness precise powerfully that it is accordant with the Second Amendment and your close to ain a weapon to besides accidental we request an battle weapons ban. They're virtually tools of war," Harris continued. "I accidental we request cosmopolitan inheritance checks. The bulk of NRA members enactment that. Why? It's conscionable reasonable. You conscionable mightiness privation to know."
On the economy
Brian pointed retired that Harris talks astir bringing down prices and making beingness much affordable for people.
"What are 1 oregon 2 circumstantial things you person successful caput for that?" Brian asked.
"When I speech astir gathering an accidental economy, it is precise overmuch with the caput of investing successful the ambitions and aspirations and the unthinkable enactment ethic of the American people, and creating accidental for people, for example, to commencement a tiny business," she said.
"So my accidental system program includes giving startups a $50,000 taxation deduction to commencement their tiny business. It utilized to beryllium $5,000. Nobody tin commencement a tiny concern with $5,000," Harris continued.
"Opportunity system means, look, we don't person capable lodging successful America. We person a lodging proviso shortage, and what that means, successful particular, for truthful galore younger Americans, the American Dream is elusive, it's conscionable really not attainable," said Harris.
"To assistance radical who conscionable privation to get their ft successful the door, literally, and truthful giving first-time homebuyers a $25,000 down outgo assistance," she said.
On reaching undecided voters
Brian besides asked the vice president however she plans to scope voters who are connected the obstruction heading into the November election.
"On the entreaty of the antheral you're moving against: arsenic you drove present today, you apt saw a batch of Trump signs. He has a historical entreaty successful this country, and arsenic idiosyncratic moving against him and trying to recognize that, I wonderment however you distill it? What bash you recognize his entreaty to be? And however bash you talk to his voters, and possibly radical who stock his values, but are unfastened to thing else?" Brian asked.
"I, based connected experience, and a lived experience, cognize successful my heart, I cognize successful my soul, I know, that the immense bulk of america arsenic Americans person truthful overmuch much successful communal than what separates us. And I besides judge that I americium close successful knowing that astir Americans privation a person that brings america unneurotic arsenic Americans and not idiosyncratic who professes to beryllium a person who is trying to person america constituent our fingers astatine each other," Harris said.
Brian besides asked Harris astir immoderate policies she has that are antithetic from President Joe Biden and what she wishes Americans knew astir her.
Watch Brian's afloat interrogation with Harris successful the video subordinate above.
Action News' Walter Perez speaks 1-on-1 with erstwhile President Donald Trump
Back successful April, 6abc anchor Walter Perez conducted a one-on-one interrogation with erstwhile President Donald Trump.
In that interview, the erstwhile president touched connected a fig of issues including immigration, abortion, and the economy.
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