I'm sure they're thinking about that. I wonder what's holding them back?

I suspect two things:

1) She's rusty. Again, one of the negatives to the unprecedented late-in-campaign switch of the nominee. The VP isn't normally doing big half-hour interviews on the newsmagazine shows (not really part of their job), so she's hugely out of practice. It doesn't mean she's terrible at them, despite how conservative media portrays her performance - it just means that the campaign probably thinks that she does better in other fora, and so that's what they've done with her.

2) They thought they didn't need to. Up until very recently, Harris had a slight lead in most polls. That's an amazing turn around, and probably as good as the Democrats could possibly expect given voter attitudes about the state of the economy. So, "Don't talk your way out of a win" was probably high on their minds.

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