Senator Kamala Harris was in the middle of giving advice to a crowd of Miles College students and faculty when she connected eyes with a friend from college and burst into laughter.

“We started freshman year together at Howard [University,]” Harris said smiling. “This goes to say, make friends who will encourage and stand by you.”

The senator’s trip to the historically black college in Fairfield, Alabama, wasn’t entirely to see old friends, but rather on behalf of Alabama’s senator, Doug Jones. And she had nothing but positive remarks about Jones.

On @DougJones: Harris said she loves working with Senator Jones. "We need his Alabama perspective," she said. "Please send him back, Alabama." — Lily Jackson (@lilygjack) March 8, 2020

“[Jones] and I are always cuttin’ up and sending each other notes," Harris said. "We were cuttin’ up in the impeachment hearings. Some of those words would not be spoken in church.”

In addition to praising Jones’ work for the state, Harris spent time discussing maternal well-being and health; the death penalty and her fears for the upcoming election. When asked whether she would be the first black woman chosen to serve as Vice President, she said, “Old boy gotta’ get elected first. Let’s get that done first and then we’ll talk,” referring to former Vice President Joe Biden.

Last week, Harris announced her endorsement of Biden, and said, “she would ‘do everything in [her] power’” to get him elected, according to reporting from AP. Jones has been outspoken about his support for Biden for some time now.

Here are a few quotes from Harris’ talk at Miles College:

On the election cycle: Harris said her biggest fear approaching this next spell is the American public feeling that their voices and votes do not matter in the local and national races and the census.

“I fear that we cannot take anything for granted in this election cycle."

On the death penalty: On Thursday, Alabama executed Nathaniel Woods. One of the main points proponents of the death penalty make, she said, is that it serves as deterrent. Harris said in all her years working a prosecutor - she was formerly as district attorney for San Francisco and Attorney General of California - she never met someone who thought, “I wonder if pulling this trigger will give me life without parole or the death penalty.”

“It’s not a deterrent,” she said. “It’s a flawed system.”

“We should not have the state in the business of killing people. We are seeing over time that people are starting to change their minds about it.”