The takeaways from Kamala Harris' town hall: Dodging questions, more vague answers and struggling to name Trump's 'virtues'

Vice President Kamala Harris was enactment successful the blistery spot by a radical of undecided Hispanic voters successful Nevada connected Thursday wherever she was pressed implicit a bid of cardinal issues from migration to wellness care. 

But arsenic the vice president looks to fastener successful enactment from this cardinal voting bloc with conscionable 26 days to beryllium earlier Election Day, she played it safe, sidestepping connected immoderate blistery fastener issues and resorting backmost to talking points she often uses connected the run trail. 

The hour-long municipality hallway was tapped astatine the University of Nevada Las Vegas to aerial nationally connected Univision connected Thursday night. 

Journalist Enrique Acevedo moderated the programme wherever astatine times helium besides played translator arsenic questions were posed some successful Spanish and English by the voters.

Former President Donald Trump volition besides enactment successful a Univision municipality hallway with undecided Hispanic voters adjacent week aft a taping earlier this week was delayed owed to Hurricane Milton. 

Here are the takeaways from the vice president's municipality hall: 

Kamala Harris dodges connected migration again

The vice president was grilled connected migration by respective undecided voters during the municipality hallway but offered up small caller information, alternatively turning backmost to talking points. 

At 1 constituent she was asked straight what she would bash that is antithetic from what President Biden has done to hole the borderline and marque definite it is secure.

Harris pointed retired her caller travel successful precocious September to the border. 

'Perhaps what distinguishes maine from astatine slightest a mates of people, I was the apical instrumentality enforcement serviceman of the biggest authorities successful the country, California, that is besides a borderline state,' Harris said. 'I person taken connected transnational transgression organizations.'

While the vice president talked astir her unsocial acquisition arsenic a apical prosecutor, she did not get into however she would acceptable herself isolated from Biden connected addressing the issue, akin to however she struggled to acceptable herself isolated wide precocious during an quality connected The View.

'I volition enactment my grounds up against anyone successful presumption of the enactment I've ever done, and it volition ever beryllium to guarantee we person a unafraid border,' Harris said.

She went connected to speech astir the bipartisan borderline woody that was killed by Republicans successful Congress at the encouragement of Trump. 

'So my pledge to you is that, by the grace of God and hopefully with your enactment arsenic well, erstwhile I americium president, I volition bring backmost that borderline information bill,' Harris said, reiterating what she has said astatine run events crossed the country. 

While Harris was not asked straight to support her grounds connected the contented arsenic vice president oregon the administration's actions similar she was during a grilling by 60 Minutes, she was speedy to pivot backmost to the woody alternatively than charting immoderate differences arsenic she remains portion of the administration.

 An affectional infinitesimal implicit migrant wellness care

In the astir affectional infinitesimal of the municipality hall, a pistillate revealed that her parent had passed distant conscionable six weeks ago. 

Speaking done tears, Ivette Castillo told the vice president she is an American national calved to Mexican parents who had been successful the U.S. since earlier she was born. Her dada was capable to summation ineligible presumption but her ma was undocumented.

Castillo shared that her ma was ne'er capable to get the attraction and services she needed and asked Harris however she plans to enactment the 'subgroup of immigrants who person been present their full lives oregon astir of them' but person to unrecorded 'in the shadows.'

'I'm truthful sorry,' Harris responded, visibly empathetic. 'You indispensable retrieve your parent arsenic she lived.' 

The vice president went that that portion of the occupation she 'assumes' is the U.S. has a 'broken migration system.'

She spoke of the archetypal measure offered up successful Congress aft being elected successful 2020 was to hole the migration strategy including a broad pathway to citizenship. She said had Castillo's parent been capable to summation citizenship, she would person been entitled to wellness care.

 'There are existent radical who are suffering due to the fact that of an inability to enactment solutions successful beforehand of politics,' Harris said. 

She past proceeded to speech astir the bipartisan migration measure that tanked successful Congress.  

After the municipality hallway wrapped up, the vice president could beryllium seen going implicit and having a idiosyncratic speech with Castillo arsenic she held her hand.  

Concerns stay astir however Harris took implicit the ticket

One undecided elector confronted the vice president during the municipality hallway implicit however she came astir being the Democratic statesmanlike nominee. 

He said she became the campaigner without going done primaries oregon caucuses, which caught his attention. 

'I'm besides acrophobic astir the mode I consciousness President Biden was pushed aside,' helium told her earlier asking her to clarify the process.

 She started by thanking him for being 'so candid.'

 'President Biden made a determination that I deliberation past volition amusement was astir apt 1 of the astir courageous that a president could make, which is helium decided to enactment state supra his idiosyncratic interest, and helium made the decision,' Harris said.

 She talked astir Biden supporting her and urging her to tally and being a spouse for the past 4 years.

'I americium honored to person earned the Democratic nomination,' she stated. 'I americium honored to person the endorsement of radical from each locomotion of life.' 

Harris blasted Trump, pointing to his remarks astir being a dictator connected time one, urged radical to look astatine Project 2025 and warned the stakes are 'extraordinarily high.'

'It's virtually astir bash we enactment a ideology for the Constitution of the United States oregon are we going to spell connected the way of idiosyncratic who was a sore loser and mislaid the predetermination successful 2020,' she went connected accusing him of inciting the onslaught connected January 6.

The vice president vowed she volition gain the vote. 

Harris comes up abbreviated connected sanction 3 Trump virtues 

In what was possibly meant to beryllium a feel-good last question of the municipality hall, Harris was asked for 3 virtues Trump has, but she came up short.

First she went disconnected connected the ex-president's attack of making it 'us versus them.'

Finally, she got astir to naming 1 virtue: 

'I deliberation Donald Trump loves his family, and I deliberation that's precise important,' Harris said calling household 1 of the astir important things we could prioritize. 

'But I don't truly cognize him to beryllium honorable with you,' Harris added. 'I person met him 1 clip - connected the statement stage.' 

She utilized the remainder of the clip to plug her campaign.