Lost 200,000 factory jobs
Kamala Harris calls Trump the biggest failure
26.09.2024, 03:30 a.m.
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The Democratic presidential candidate is sharpening her economic profile. In the first one-on-one interview of her election campaign, Harris attacks Trump’s industrial policy as the biggest debacle of all time. She calls his relaxed approach to tariffs “not very serious.”
The presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in the USA, Kamala Harris, has accused her Republican opponent Donald Trump of incompetence and favoritism towards the upper class in economic matters. If it were up to Trump, “our economy works best when it works for those who own the big skyscrapers,” said Harris at a campaign event in Pittsburgh, in the US state of Pennsylvania.
During Trump’s time as US president, nearly 200,000 factory jobs were moved overseas, said Harris. This makes her competitor “one of the biggest failures of all time” when it comes to manufacturing. Harris portrayed herself as a supporter of the middle class and vowed to show “a new way forward”, to stimulate investment in manufacturing and to cut taxes for families and small and medium-sized businesses.
“You don’t throw around the idea of tariffs”
In an interview with the left-leaning news channel MSNBC, Harris criticized Trump’s plans to impose high tariffs on imports into the US. “You don’t just throw around the idea of general tariffs,” argued the Democrat. “He’s just not very serious,” she added, referring to Trump. It was Harris’ first solo interview as a presidential candidate. In August, she gave an interview with her vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.
Harris was nominated as the Democratic Party’s candidate after US President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy in July following massive doubts about his physical and mental fitness. The Vice President and former President Trump are neck and neck in polls for the White House and are trying to reach undecided voters six weeks before the election – especially in so-called swing states. The outcome of the presidential election on November 5 will be decided in these states due to the peculiarities of the US electoral system.