A recent ad from the Trump campaign skewered Vice President Kamala Harris for her lack of substantive policy positions, labeling her a “copy and paste” candidate who is reusing President Joe Biden’s platform. Conservatives have criticized Harris for seemingly focusing on attacking Trump more than offering solutions to the various problems that the nation faces.
A press release from the Trump campaign claimed, “Kamala Harris said she’s ‘very proud’ of Bidenomics. Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking votes in the Senate for trillions of dollars in spending, which created the worst inflation crisis in a generation. Now, Kamala Harris *literally* copy and pasted failed Joe Biden’s economic agenda from his website for her own website.”
Karoline Leavitt, Trump Campaign National Press Secretary, added, “Kamala Harris’ economic policies are the same failed policies from the Harris-Walz agenda, they are just under a different website header. A vote for Kamala is a vote for another four years of historic inflation, sky high prices, and economic failure. There is only one candidate in this race that made America wealthy and strong, and that candidate is President Donald J. Trump.”
The ad titled, “copy and paste,” showed a series of clips featuring Vice President Harris and President Biden repeating the exact same rhetoric verbatim. “Kamala’s economic plan is Biden’s economic plan. She is failed, weak, and dangerously liberal,” the ad concludes. The video features a clip of Trump from the recent debate, stating, “She doesn’t have a plan. She copied Biden’s plan.” The former president then added, “And it’s like four sentences like ‘Run, Spot, Run.’ Four sentences that are just, ‘Oh, we’ll try and lower taxes.’ She doesn’t have a plan.”
The American Tribune recently reported on another moment from the debate last week related to the economy, where Harris refused to acknowledge whether Americans are better off today than they were during Trump’s presidency. The vice president avoided the question entirely and delivered a long-winded response about vague policy goals.
ABC News host David Muir asked, “Vice President Harris, you and President Trump [Biden] were elected four years ago, and your opponent on the stage here tonight often asks his supporters, are you better off than you were four years ago when it comes to the economy? Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?”
Kamala immediately replied, “So I was raised as a middle class kid, and I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America. I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people, and that is why I imagine and have actually a plan to build what I call an opportunity economy.”
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After talking about several policy goals, she then pivoted to attacking Trump, furhter deviating from the original question. “My opponent, on the other hand, his plan is to do what he has done before, which is to provide a tax cut for billionaires and big corporations, which will result in $5 trillion to America’s deficit. My opponent has a plan that I call the Trump sales tax, which would be a 20% tax on everyday goods that you rely on to get through the month. Economists have said that that Trump sales tax would actually result for middle class families and about $4,000 more a year because of his policies and his ideas about what should be the backs of middle class people paying for tax cuts for billionaires President Trump,” she said.
