As recent polling shows an increasingly narrow race between the two presidential candidates, Vice President Kamala Harris is on an interview blitz, including an Oct. 15 audio town hall on the “The Breakfast Club” radio show.
Hosted from Detroit in battleground Michigan, the one-hour exchange featured tough questions from listeners. Harris defended her record as a prosecutor, senator, and vice president, while emphasizing policies directed at the black community.
Here are four takeaways from Harris’s appearance.
‘Progressive Prosecutor’
One early criticism of Harris by former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), was that she seemed to avoid interviews and media appearances to dodge tough questions.
Right out of the gate, Charlamagne asked Harris about the allegations that she locked up thousands of black men in San Francisco for marijuana violations “to boost your career.”
“Some say you did it out of pure hate for black men. Please tell us the facts,” Charlamagne said.
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