Now we turn to the presidential campaign with election day just seven weeks from today.

Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for a high profile interview in Pennsylvania today

while former President Donald Trump is gearing up for a town hall later tonight,

just days after an alleged attempted assassination effort was stopped by the US Secret Service.

Larbron Lopez has more.

The nation's first Black Vice President fielding questions from the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia.

Harris addressed her opponent's efforts to win over more black men this cycle.

I'm working to earn the vote, not assuming I'm going to have it because I am black, but because the policies and the perspectives I have

understands what we must do to recognize the needs of all communities.

It comes six weeks after the organization hosted former President Trump

who sparred with the journalist and questioned Harris's racial identity.

Now she wants to be known as Black. So I don't know is she Indian or is she black?

Today's interview with Harris struck a different tone.

Eugene Daniels of Politico asked the vice president about Springfield, Ohio,

which has seen a spike in violent threats after Trump spread lies about immigrants eating pets there.

When you have these positions, when you have that kind of microphone in front of you, you really ought to understand at a very deep level how much

your words have meaning.

And I think most people in our country, regardless of their race, are starting to see through this nonsense and to say, you know what,

let's turn the page on this, this is exhausting and it's harmful. She also condemned the apparent assassination attempt that unfolded on Sunday

when Secret Service spotted a gunman in the tree line of Trump's own golf course.

Harris said she spoke with the former president by phone

earlier this afternoon.

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