At a cam­paign ral­ly in April, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden told a Wis­con­sin crowd about his lat­est “life-chang­ing” plan for stu­dent loan can­cel­la­tion, promis­ing fi­nan­cial re­lief for more than 30 mil­lion Amer­i­cans.

But Ka­mala Har­ris has steered clear of the is­sue at her po­lit­i­cal events since re­plac­ing Biden as the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee for pres­i­dent. The vice pres­i­dent’s plat­form men­tions it just twice, and with no spe­cif­ic plan. As she courts mod­er­ate vot­ers, Har­ris has fo­cused on poli­cies tar­get­ing Amer­i­cans with­out a col­lege de­gree.

“For far too long, our na­tion has en­cour­aged on­ly one path to suc­cess: a four-year col­lege de­gree,” Har­ris said in Sep­tem­ber in Wilkes-Barre, Penn­syl­va­nia. “Our na­tion needs to rec­og­nize the val­ue of oth­er paths.”

In the span of just a few years, stu­dent loan can­cel­la­tion has gone from a pil­lar of the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty to a po­lit­i­cal li­a­bil­i­ty. Once seen as a sure-fire way to en­er­gize young vot­ers, the is­sue has now be­come a blud­geon wield­ed by Re­pub­li­cans who say it heaps ad­van­tage on elites and comes at the ex­pense of those who re­paid their loans or did not at­tend col­lege.

The is­sue came up just once in the Sep­tem­ber pres­i­den­tial de­bate, when Re­pub­li­can Don­ald Trump ham­mered Har­ris and Biden for fail­ing to de­liv­er their promise of wide­spread can­cel­la­tion. The for­mer pres­i­dent called it a “to­tal cat­a­stro­phe” that “taunt­ed young peo­ple.”

“They didn’t even come close to get­ting stu­dent loans,” Trump said.