Key takeaways: What you missed from Harris’ NBC interview

Ms. Jackson asked Harris whether she had been honest with Biden when she endorsed his re-election bid.

“You’ve never seen anything like what happened to him behind closed doors on debate night?” Ms. Jackson asked.

“It was a bad debate. People have bad debates,” Harris replied, referring to the Trump-Biden duel in June.

Ms. Jackson then elaborated, saying that Biden’s poor performance in the debate was the reason Harris is now the Democratic Party’s nominee.

“Well, you’d have to ask him if that’s the only reason he resigned,” Harris said.

Ms. Jackson asked again about Biden.

“I am running for President of the United States. Joe Biden is not – and my presidency will be about bringing a new generation of leaders to America,” Harris said.

She then vouched for the president’s political successes and leadership.

“I speak not only with sincerity, but also with a real, first-hand account of watching him do this work. I have no inhibitions about saying that,” she said.