It was supposed to be everything short of a free ad - a panel of women not containing their excitement to welcome Kamala Harris, ready to introduce her to their committed daytime audience of exactly the type of women the vice president's campaign always hoped were going to be critical to her base.
It was a moment that encapsulated one of the biggest challenges facing her campaign - which, in the end, proved insurmountable. "What, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?" co-host of ABC's "The View" Sunny Hostin asked Harris, looking to give her a set for her to spike over the net. "There is not a thing that comes to mind," she said.
Even Harris realized she had a problem, trying to adjust a moment later by saying she would put a Republican in her Cabinet.
Aides didn't wait until Harris was off the set to start trying to clean it up.