Kamala Harris tries to dodge question on backing taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries

Vice President Kamala Harris tried to dodge her presumption connected transgender surgeries connected Tuesday evening, but said the determination yet rested with doctors, not the government.

'I judge we should travel the law,' Harris began during an interrogation with NBC's Hallie Jackson who asked her to specify her presumption connected the issue. 

Jackson interrupted Harris to enactment that Trump was 'trying to define' her with the issue, spending millions of dollars of ads against her connected the issue. 

'I'm asking you to specify yourself,' Jackson continued.  

'I judge that people, arsenic the instrumentality states, adjacent connected this issue, astir national instrumentality that that is simply a determination that doctors volition marque successful presumption of what is medically necessary,' Harris said. 'I'm not going to enactment myself successful the presumption of a doctor.'

Harris dismissed the question arsenic a 'distraction' and went connected to item Trump's much melodramatic proposals for the country. 

The Trump run has spent millions of dollars advertizing against Harris for supporting payer funded surgeries for prisoners and adjacent for amerciable immigrants. 

'Kamala is for they/them; President Trump is for you,' the ads conclude. 

The vice president besides dodged a akin question from Fox News anchor Bret Baier erstwhile asked if she inactive supports payer funded surgeries for amerciable immigrants. 

'I volition travel the law, a instrumentality that Donald Trump really followed,' Harris replied, calling it a 'distraction' from the issues that mattered successful the election. 

'I deliberation helium spent $20 cardinal connected those ads trying to make a consciousness of fearfulness successful the voters due to the fact that helium really has nary program successful this predetermination that is astir focusing connected the needs of the American people,' Harris said successful the interrogation with Fox. 'Twenty cardinal connected an contented that -- arsenic it relates to the biggest issues that impact the American radical -- is truly rather distant and again, his argumentation was nary different.'