Kamala Harris likes to boast that under the Biden administration, hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs have been created. But while the Democratic presidential nominee is correct, there are asterisks. In California, for example, the number of manufacturing jobs is down this year and is expected to grow slowly in the near future.

Kamala Harris said she could not think of anything she would have done differently from Joe Biden on Tuesday, as she struggled to differentiate herself from the president and his policies during a blitz of interviews ahead of the November election.

The comment drew swift criticism from Republicans who have been eager to highlight Harris’s central role in the administration of an unpopular president.