Former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod said Vice President Kamala Harris turned in a “mixed” performance at a CNN town hall Wednesday evening, at times offering up an evasive “word salad” as she avoided answering questions from moderator Anderson Cooper.

“The things that would concern me is when she doesn’t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to Word Salad City,” Axelrod told a CNN panel after the event. “She did that on a couple of answers. One was on Israel, Anderson asked a direct question: ‘Would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?’ And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking.”