In her second interview on Friday since entering the race, Vice President Kamala Harris cast doubt on her record within the Biden-Harris administration by asserting that the administration’s policies are not suitable for the “twenty-first century.”
Harris is confronted with a dilemma: she cannot advocate for solutions to issues such as crime, inflation, and border security without contradicting the policies of the Biden-Harris administration, yet she must also promote these policies to support her own record and candidacy.
During a conversation with Brian Taff from Philadelphia’s Action News 6 ABC, which the Harris campaign had assured would take place following criticism of her performance in Tuesday’s debate, Harris indicated that she possesses a new “approach” with “innovative ideas” tailored for the “current moment.”
“I wonder if there are one or two spots, policy areas or approaches where you would say I’m a different person [than Joe Biden]?” asked Taff.
“My approach is about new ideas, new policies that are directed at the current moment. And also, to be very honest with you, my focus is very much in what we need to do over the next ten twenty years to catch up to the twenty first century,” Harris replied.
“I’m obviously not Joe Biden, and you know, I offer a new generation of leadership,” she said. Kamala then went on to provide examples that the Biden-Harris administration failed to achieve:
“And so, for example, thinking about developing and creating an opportunity economy where it’s about investing in areas that really need a lot of work, and maybe focusing on again, the aspirations and the dreams, but also just recognizing that at this moment in time, some of the stuff we could take for granted years ago, we can’t take for granted anymore. For example, another plan that I have that is a new approach is to expand the child tax credit to $6,000 for young families for the first year of their child’s life, because that is obviously a very critical stage of development of a child, and a lot of young parents need the help to buy a car seat or a crib or clothes for their kids.”
Taff inquired of Harris regarding her approach to reducing prices and enhancing affordability for individuals, to which Kamala replied with the same tired response of growing up as a ‘middle class kid.’
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Kamala during the debate on the economy: "I grew up a middle class kid…"
Kamala three days later on the economy: "I grew up a middle class kid…"
She has no plan for America; all she can do is repeat the same rehearsed talking points. pic.twitter.com/ImvrMOvB8k
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 13, 2024
When questioned regarding her interpretation of former President Donald Trump’s appeal and how she would communicate this to his supporters, Harris provided a convoluted response that failed to address the question directly.
“I, based on experience and and a lived experience, know in my heart, I know in my soul, I know that the vast majority of us as Americans have so much more in common than what separates us,” she rambled. “And I also believe that I am accurate in knowing that most Americans want a leader who brings us together as Americans, and not someone who professes to be a leader who is trying to have us point our fingers at each other.”
“Let’s bring everybody together,” she said.
Harris lastly said she wants to ban guns. “I feel very strongly that it is consistent with the second amendment and your right to own a gun to say that we need an assault weapons ban,” she said. “They’re literally tools of war.”
“We’re not taking anybody’s guns away,” she added in the same breath.
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Vice-President Kamala Harris sat down for her second tv interview since she jumped in the race as the presidential candidate.
The interview was with Brian Taff of Philadelphia’s Action News 6 ABC.
Here is the entire interview. pic.twitter.com/d9nR2iFTUz
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 13, 2024
