Vice President Kamala Harris said helping address economic woes and bolstering the middle class would be her day one priority, in her critical first interview since capturing the Democratic presidential nomination.“I think that people are ready for a new way forward, in a way that generations of Americans have been fueled by hope and by optimism,” Harris told CNN, adding that she believed voters were ready “to turn the page” on former President Donald Trump, her Republican rival. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Whether Harris, the sitting vice president, can embody that change was a central question of the interview, which took on an outsized importance with just over two months until Election Day.