On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” The Washington Post MSNBC executive editor and host Jonathan Capehart said 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris’ rebuttal to the “price gouging” proposal is “pretty compelling” and that Harris needs to provide details about that plan and “other parts of her economic platform.”
“It made sense for her to focus on just one part of the economy in her first policy speech, because while she said at the beginning of the speech that there were a lot of other things she was going to announce later, she wanted to focus on this very narrow issue, which is, what is the American people doing? [are] Their biggest concern is the cost of living, the price of medicine, rent, grocery prices and everything that relates to that.”
He then added, “Katherine Rampell makes a very good point. I think her column is pretty persuasive. So it’s incumbent on the vice president and his team to flesh this out a little bit more. But while we’re talking about economic ignorance, can I talk about Donald Trump and the proposal for tariffs on all imports that he talked about at a press conference, I think it was last night? We haven’t talked enough about what a tariff on all imports would mean for the American consumer, meaning higher prices. But the former president doesn’t talk about that. So whether we’re talking about the vice president’s price gouging plan and whether she can do it, or the former president’s plan for a tariff on all imports, let’s have this lively conversation because the vice president still has to flesh out other parts of his economic agenda.”
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