Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for a roughly 45-minute interview with the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday afternoon in Philadelphia, where she claimed she is working hard to earn the support of black men and not just assume they will vote for her because of her heritage.

The vice president faces a panel of the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday. In July, Trump told NABJ that Harris “happened to turn Black.”

Kamala Harris has acknowledged that she must do more to win over Black male voters, amid fears that a once reliable cohort of Democratic voters is turning to Donald Trump. Harris said she did not assume that Black men would vote for her “because I am Black” but was “working to earn [their] vote” ahead of the November presidential election.