Pollster Frank Luntz called inflation a âdangerousâ issue for Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday due to voters blaming President Joe Biden for prices.
Harris is set to deliver a speech Friday which will address how her campaign plans to tackle ways to lower costs, Reuters reported. Luntz said on âCNN News Centralâ that Harris needs to draw âcontrastâ from Biden and âshow that her policiesâ wonât hurt the economy.
âThe key is affordability. Itâs not inflation. Inflationâs what you and I say, affordability is where the average American feels and in the story before setting this up you communicated that itâs things that people care about â housing and health care, which is very expensive. Food and fuel, which is day-to-day items. The public believes no matter what inflation is right now, theyâre looking at it over the last four years and thatâs a dangerous situation for Harris. She wants to get ahead of it. So itâs smart for her to be doing it. In fact, she doesnât really have a choice,â Luntz said.
âNow that sheâs the candidate, sheâs going to have to draw contrast because the public does not believe that Joe Biden was effective on inflation, and they do give Trump credit in his administration for numbers that we havenât seen since he was president. One last thing about inflation, everyone feels it, doesnât matter whether you are working paycheck to paycheck or whether youâre middle-class,â Luntz continued. âDoesnât matter whether youâre from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona â the south â Georgia, North Carolina, because itâs so universal and it impacts everyone from whether theyâre 18-years-old or 80-years-old. This is the key issue because everyone feels it, and Harris has a way to go to show that her policies arenât going to make a tough situation even worse.â
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A recent poll conducted by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan shows Harris is now slightly leading former President Donald Trump by one point on who Americansâ trust to handle the economy, despite nearly half of the participants still believing the Biden administration âhurt the economy.â However, 38% of voters said the economy would be âworse offâ if Harris were to win, with 42% of voters still believing the economy would be âbetter offâ under another Trump administration.
Harris has received backlash since becoming her partyâs new presumptive presidential nominee due to her flip-flopping on issues such as defunding the police, Medicare and fracking. Harris recently backed no taxing on tips, which Trumpclaimed was copying his stance to cut taxes for service workers due to it being a promise he had pushed earlier if he is re-elected.
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