And yet, when she was served up an easy gimme question at the last town hall debate, she shied away and waffled about bipartisanship.

CAROL NACKENOFF, POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR AT SWARTHMORE COLLEGE: Good evening… My question is this: if you could accomplish only one major policy goal that required congressional action, what would it be, and why?

HARRIS: Well, there's not just one. I have to be honest with you, Carol. There's a lot of work that needs to happen.

But let's -- let's -- I think that maybe part of this point that -- I how I think about it is we've got to get past this era of politics and partisan politics slowing down what we need to do in terms of progress in our country. And that means working across the aisle.