Vice President Kamala Harris avoided directly addressing her many policy changes when given the opportunity to respond by ABC News host Lindsey Davis during her debate with former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Harris and Trump faced off in the first and only scheduled presidential debate on Tuesday night on ABC News. Davis asked Harris about many of her policy positions that have changed since she launched her 2024 presidential campaign, but Harris spent two minutes talking about her “values” instead of explaining her changes. (Related: Kamala Harris once thought a border wall was “un-American.” Now she supports it.)

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“Vice President Harris, in the last presidential election, Fracking. Not now. I wanted it to be mandatory. Government Buyback Program for Assault Weapons. Now “Your campaign says that's not the case,” Davis said. “You Decriminalize Border Crossings, Now You Draw a harder line. Your values ​​haven't changed. So So why your Has the policy position changed?

Harris stressed that her “values ​​haven't changed” and insisted she would address “at least every point” Davis made, but told the moderator she would focus on fracking because of the ongoing debate in Pennsylvania.

“I made that clear in 2020: I will not ban fracking. I never banned fracking as vice president of the United States. In fact, I voted to stop fracking and opened up new fracking rights,” she said. “I believe we should invest in diverse energy sources and reduce our reliance on foreign oil. Domestic oil production has seen the largest increase in history with the recognition that we cannot be overly dependent on foreign oil.”

The vice president then spoke about his “middle class” background to explain his “values.”

“My values ​​on the importance of homeownership, the recognition that not everybody got handed $400 million on a silver platter and then I went bankrupt six times, these are the values ​​that I bring to the job. I've said we're going to work with the private sector and with homebuilders to add 3 million homes. We're going to add 3 million homes by the end of my first term,” Harris said.

“My work is connected to a friend who was sexually assaulted by her stepfather when she was in high school, and my focus on protecting women and children from violent crime is rooted in deeply rooted values ​​about the importance of standing up for those who are most vulnerable,” she continued. “My work protecting Social Security and Medicare builds on the work I've done for years to protect seniors from fraud.

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Tuesday that Harris is likely to make more moves than Trump after the debate, citing polling figures that show Americans still want to know more about the vice president. He suggested that voters who have already made up their minds about the former president but are still undecided could watch the debate to deepen their view of the vice president.

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