Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harrisâ has an instinct to back far-left policies despite trying to paint herself as a moderate.
Harris said she would not take pollstersâ advice and follow her own instincts regarding the most effective way to campaign, CNN reported. McEnany questioned on Fox Newsâ âAmericaâs Newsroomâ on whether Harrisâ attempts to rebrand herself as a moderate candidate will be effective ahead of the 2024 election.
âWeâve seen little inklings of what her instincts are. Passing over Josh Shapiro, economic plan of price controls, which has been widely panned as a poor idea,â McEnany said. âHer instincts are gut progressive, but sheâs trying to shield that with a moderate venire, will it work?â
An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found Trump leading Harris on five key electoral issues, while Harris leads 49% to 45% nationally. The former president leads Harris 46% to 36% on immigration, 46% to 37% on the economy, 45% to 36% on inflation, 38% to 33% on the Israel-Hamas war and 42% to 39% on crime.
Harrisâ promised to enact a federal ban on corporate âprice-gougingâ on food and groceries at a Friday rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. McEnany said Harris and her supporters will make non-detailed campaign promises during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week since the public did not respond kindly to her âprice-gougingâ plan.
âIâm reminded of Mario Cuomo where he said you campaign in poetry and you govern in prose. Well prepare to overdose on poetry this week. That didnât go well, so you are going to see poetry, broad strokes, paintings of lowering costs without much detail or footnote as to how to do that. Itâs going to be grandiose, but itâs going to be broad. And this is where the debate is so important for Trump to nail down on specifics,â McEnany said.
The vice president reportedly plans on distancing herself from Bidenâs economic agenda in order to convince voters she can mitigate inflation, Axios reported on Wednesday.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Harris had involvement in Bidenâs economic policies, which she argued helped the American people during a Wednesday press briefing.
âWhat I will tell you is Bidenomics has been something that both the president and the vice president has worked on,â Jean-Pierre said. âYou guys have called it âBidenomics,â we talk about how the president is trying to put forward an economic policy building from the bottom-up, middle-out that does not leave behind the middle class and make sure it has equity at the center of it.â
Inflation rose from 1.4% when Biden took office in January 2021 to a peak of 9% in June 2022, making it a politically devastating issue for Bidenâs presidency. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures the price of everyday goods, fell below 3% in July for the first time in two years.
Trump accused Harris of copying his plan to eliminate taxes on tips earned by service workers, which he announced two months earlier than the vice president. Harris campaign spokesperson Adrienne Elrod told CNN on Tuesday that the âno tax on tipsâ idea is part of her âown agendaâ that is separate from Bidenâs.
The Harris campaign has released campaign advertisements to brand her as a tough-on-the-border candidate, with one campaign ad claiming she will increase the number of Border Patrol agents. The vice president was appointed in March 2021 to address âroot causesâ of the migrant crisis in Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries, and reportedly never met retired Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott.
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