You may not like the answer, it may not be a great answer but she did answer it. Then she wrapped it up with a jab at Trump with a " My opponent, on the other hand, his plan is to do what he has done before, which is to provide a tax cut for billionaires and big corporations, which will result in $5 trillion to America's deficit. My opponent has a plan that I call the Trump sales tax, which would be a 20% tax on everyday goods that you rely on to get through the month. Economists have said that Trump's sales tax would actually result for middle-class families in about $4,000 more a year because of his policies and his ideas about what should be the backs of middle-class people paying for tax cuts for billionaires."
Now he has to respond to that. Instead of answer the question- is your life better, he's defending his tariff plan. She pushed him into defending his tariffs plan, which is a sales tax. (countries don't pay the tariff, consumers do). She's controlled his answer.