Harris pivots to the economy to combat light-on-substance complaint
By
Christian Datoc
August 13, 2024 1:42 pm
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Vice President Kamala Harris is taking her first major step to rebut GOP criticisms that she is running a light-on-substance campaign for president with a policy-oriented speech on Friday focused on cutting costs for voters.
Harris’s initial weeks of campaigning reinvigorated Democratic voters who were apathetic about the prospect of another term under President Joe Biden. She has enjoyed a cash surge and packed rallies in battleground states across the country.
But her campaign rollout has also come with a dose of criticism. She has distanced herself from some of the more controversial positions she held during her 2020 run for president, including Medicare for All, but she has not laid out a concrete agenda for how she would govern in office.
Harris has given hints she would largely carry forward the agenda Biden laid out for his first term in the White House, including a bipartisan immigration deal he promised to sign despite it failing in the Senate.
But a Friday campaign stop in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she will lay out in detail how to “lower costs for middle-class families and take on corporate price-gouging,” will be among her first serious attempts to counter that critique.
Harris herself told reporters over the weekend that her platform will “be focused on the economy and what we need to do to bring down costs and also strengthen the economy overall.”
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