Democratic nominee to draw contrast with Trump on tax and tariffs when she lays out details on Friday, aides say
Kamala Harris will announce plans to tackle high grocery costs by targeting corporations in the food and grocery industry, as she previews her economic agenda ahead of the November election.
She will also tackle prescription drug and housing costs, drawing a contrast with Trump on tariffs and taxes, according to a Harris campaign statement.
Harris is expected to lay out some details of her economic plan in a speech in North Carolina on Friday.
“Same values, different vision,” said one aide, describing how Harris’s economic agenda will compare with that of Joe Biden, who stepped aside as the Democratic presidential candidate last month.
Women had only just been allowed to vote, and it would be another 40 years until the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
And none of this is meant to discount the current struggles people are experiencing. The millennia of struggle we’ve sought freedom from hierarchy continues. We deserve to be truly free in the way those labor unions, women, and formerly formally enslaved people demanded over the overseers of our society. I say all this to make it abundantly clear I’m aware of the systemic issues at play this election, and to also make it clear that my endorsement of Kamala Harris is mainly begrudgingly based on that of the candidates she’s the most least worst. We need to keep this energy going in state and local elections. We need to keep this energy going when there isn’t an election at all. We need to realize those labor unions, women, and formally enslaved people fought for those rights with tools of war. They won our weekends and minimum wage and child labor laws with blood. We don’t repay them by saying things used to be better. We repay them by maintaining pressure