CNN's Dana Bash joked that they could play a “drinking game” with Vice President Kamala Harris every time she makes the same old talking points about the economy.
“Listening to Kamala Harris talk about what she's going to do, every time she says 'small business,' I want to start a drinking game,” Bash said during a CNN panel on Wednesday.
Bash played footage of Harris speaking about her economic plan to the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Harris reiterated, Her suggestion Expands the tax credit for new small business owners from $5,000 to $50,000.
“She also says she was a middle-class child, and that's the opening line of her answer,” Semaphore reporter David Weigel told Bash, citing it as another example of her repeated claims.
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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHCI) leadership conference in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin) (AP Photo/Jacqueline Martin)
Weigel suggested Harris was resorting to rhetoric because she “doesn't have the answers” to voters' most pressing concerns about prices.
“If you look at the local media interviews, they've been a little more open since the debate, but the first question is often, 'What are you going to do to bring prices down?' That's a very hard question for the incumbent party to answer. And it has very Trumpian overtones,” he continued. “Trump says he's going to do mass deportations, which would reduce demand. Trump says he's going to explore more energy, which would reduce energy costs.”
“Democrats can point to the fact that inflation was actually bad two years ago. It's not like it is now,” Weigel said. “What people want to hear is how to bring prices down. So everything she says is realistic and can withstand fact-checking to answer some very tough questions.”
“There's no plan to get grocery costs down to 2019 levels. We had a pandemic. We had money supply inflation. You can't push a button to make that go away. But Trump has the answers to those questions, whereas I don't think Harris has the answers because she has different incentives and a different relationship to what can be backed up in a policy document. So she imagines a future where there are bigger — more companies — and things start to get better,” he continued.
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A new poll ahead of Tuesday's ABC News presidential debate finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Trump by 8 percentage points among Virginia voters. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
In her first solo television interview since becoming the Democratic candidate, Harris gave a lengthy talk about her “middle class” upbringing when asked what “specific” plans she had to lower prices for Americans.
She ended her response by mentioning her plan to expand tax credits for new small business owners.
Harris suggested. Raising the corporate tax rate This will increase from the current 21% to 28%.
Her campaign He reportedly told Mark Goldwein: The vice chairman of the Committee for a Responsible Budget said he supports all of President Biden's proposed tax increases on high-income earners for fiscal year 2025.
In a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' 47th annual leadership conference on Wednesday, Washington DC, Harris offered few specific details about the policies she would implement as president.
From left, U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff stand on the Truman Balcony at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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At one point, Harris said she would provide families with the resources they need so parents can “raise their children well,” but she did not say what resources would be provided or how.
“I want to help the local children Children in the area, Ensuring that children grow up with the resources they need to realize their God-given potential should be a right we all deserve,” the Vice President said.
Harris also appeared to play down her policy proposal to institute a federal price-fixing program for businesses, telling the audience that “very few” businesses would actually “inflate prices” for consumers during an emergency.
Fox News' Steven Soreice and Alec Schemel contributed to this report.
