Voters will have been sorely disappointed Tuesday evening if they were hoping ABC News debate moderators would elicit answers from Vice President Kamala Harris about how her policies differ from the failed presidency of President Joe Biden or why she has abandoned so many positions she embraced during her 2020 failed run for the White House.

The moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, did open the evening by asking Harris if she believes people are better off now than they were four years ago, but when Harris completely avoided the question to give a scripted little speech about her planned “opportunity economy,” they did nothing to stop her evasion or haul her back to explain her integral role in the past four years of massive deficits, inflation, lost purchasing power, declining real wages, high interest rates, sky-high mortgages, and unaffordable housing. She skated away from all blame on the economy, and the moderators waved her a fond farewell.