Many of her sit-downs have been with friendly media outlets, including MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, who had endorsed her, to the Call Your Daddy podcast last weekend.

But with less than a month until Election Day, Harris is amid a media blitz, hoping to upend the dynamic of her race against former President Donald Trump to be back in her favor.

Here are six takeaways from Harris’s interview with 60 Minutes on CBS:

Harris defended her policy flip-flops, including on the border

Harris provided a stronger answer than the one she gave CNN during her maiden interview as the Democratic nominee in August regarding why her policy positions have changed so much during her public service.

“I have been vice president [of the] United States and I have been traveling our country and I have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground,” she said. “What the American people do want is that we have leaders who can build consensus, where we can figure out compromise and understand it’s not a bad thing, as long as you don’t compromise your values to find common sense solutions, and that has been my approach.”

But 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whittaker pressed Harris on why the posture of the Biden administration concerning the border has similarly changed during the past four years. This month alone the administration has extended its moratorium on certain asylum-seeker applications and announced it would not extend temporary status granted to immigrants for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

“Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did?” he asked. “What I was asking was, was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place?”

“I think the policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem,” she said.

“OK, but the numbers did quadruple,” Whittaker pushed.

“And the numbers today because of what we have done, we have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half,” she said. “We have cut the flow of fentanyl by half, but we need Congress to be able to act to actually fix the problem.”

Harris’s ‘purse’ pistol is a Glock

Harris offered more information about her gun after repeatedly referring to her pistol on the campaign trail. Aides have previously described her firearm as being able to “fit in a small purse.”

“I have a Glock, and I’ve had it for quite some time,” Harris said. “My background is in law enforcement.”

“Have you ever fired it?” Whittaker asked.

“Yes. Of course I have. At a shooting range,” she said.

Harris would not meet with Putin to end the war in Ukraine

If elected, Harris would decline a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss peace in Ukraine without representatives from the war-torn nation.

“Not bilaterally without Ukraine, no,” she said. “Ukraine must have a say in the future of Ukraine.”

Whittaker asked Harris whether she supports expanding NATO to include the former Soviet Union country, as favored by the alliance, which has said that Ukraine’s “future is in NATO.”

“Those are all issues that we will deal with if and when it arrives at that point,” she said. “Right now, we are supporting Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against Russia‘s unprovoked aggression. Donald Trump, if he were president, Putin would be sitting in Kyiv right now. He talks about, ‘Oh, he can end it on day one.’ You know what that is? It’s about surrender.”

Harris tries to straddle both sides of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7

With the interview airing on the first anniversary of Hamas‘s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, Harris stood by Biden’s Middle East policies despite Democratic disagreement over how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prosecuting the war in Gaza and now Lebanon.

“The work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles, which include the need for humanitarian aid, the need for this war to end, the need for a deal to be done which would release the hostages and create a ceasefire,” she said. “We’re not going to stop in terms of putting that pressure on Israel and in the region, including Arab leaders.”

Whittaker contended Netanyahu “is not listening” to Biden and questioned whether the prime minister was a “real close ally” of the United States.

“I think, with all due respect, the better question is: Do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people? And the answer to that question is yes,” Harris said.

Harris pressed on how she’ll pay for her hand-out campaign promises

In another prereleased clip, Harris was pressed on the practicality of her policy proposals, particularly her plans related to a more generous child tax credit and for tax breaks to first-time homebuyers and new small business owners.

“One of the things is I’m gonna make sure that the richest among us who can afford it pay their fair share in taxes,” she said. “It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations.”

“But we’re dealing with the real world here,” Whittaker responded. “How are you gonna get this through Congress?”

“When you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I’m talking about ’cause their constituents know exactly what I’m talking about,” she said. “Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses.”

Walz argues his false claims are not as bad as Trump’s ‘pathological’ lies

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was also interviewed for the program. During his short segment, Walz defended his multiple misstatements about his military record and claims that he was in China during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. He had called himself a “knucklehead” when asked about the latter during last week’s debate with Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).

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“Is that kind of misrepresentation, isn’t that more than just being a knucklehead? Whitaker asked.

“I think folks know who I am,” Walz said. “I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong by you rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump.”