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‘All she has is bulls**t’: Trump camp isn’t sweating Kamala’s economic policy rollout

August 17, 2024 | | Print Article

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign tore into Vice President Kamala Harris’ Friday campaign speech, labeling much of it “bulls–t.”

Harris appeared in Raleigh, N.C. this Friday to tout a communist agenda that calls for imposing price controls on food manufacturers and inflicting further taxes on the American people.

Listen to a sliver of the speech below:

Responding afterward on Truth Social, Trump warned the American people of the obvious consequences of Harris’ policy proposals.

“If you think things are expensive now, they will get 100 times WORSE if Kamala gets four years as President,” he wrote. “Under her plan, Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price Controls.”

“She will abolish private health care, and make California’s ridiculous tax policies the law of the land, meaning EVERY American will be taxed up to 80% of their income! If you want more CASH and less TAX, VOTE TRUMP!!!” he added.

Look:

Over on X meanwhile, Trump’s campaign responded to Harris’ speech live as she spoke through Friday afternoon.

At one point, the campaign noted that Harris had just said the American Dream is “out of reach for far too many Americans.”

The campaign responded by pointing out that it’s like this precisely because of her and President Joe Biden’s policies.

“All she has is bulls–t,” the campaign added.

Look:

Speaking with the press during a call held right before Harris’ N.C. speech, Trump campaign officials offered similar criticisms, as reported by The Hill.

“Her policies rival some of the most socialist and authoritarian models from world history,” senior Trump campaign adviser Brian Hughes said. “Instead of unleashing American energy and reducing the burden on our people, she would impose price controls that are something out of Venezuela or Cuba.”

Kevin Hassett, an economist who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers while Trump was in office, concurred.

“This policy is completely preposterous,” he said. “The thing is, though, is that it also reveals that if they’re willing to have the government take over the pricing of things it reveals that all of the rollback we saw in the last two weeks of the very extreme far-left policies that she supported in the past, that that rollback was just inaccurate.”

Harris has, as previously reported, tried to walk back her previous policy prescriptions.

Stephen Moore, who advises Trump on economic policy, for his part focused on Harris’ promise of $25,000 in down-payment assistance for first-time homebuyers.

“The idea of giving people more money to make their down payment is putting a Band-Aid on a cancer patient,” he said. “The big problem is people can’t afford their mortgage payments because they’re so much higher than they were when Trump was president.”

And the reason they’re so much higher is because of Biden/Harris policies.

“Since Mr. Biden became president, the median home price has jumped over 27%, and interest rates have risen from 2.8% to 7.2%,” the Heritage Foundation notes. “The drop in supply is keeping upward pressure on home prices, while the continued growth of government, a la Bidenomics, is pushing interest rates skyward.”

“Those two factors have caused the monthly mortgage payment on a median-priced home to more than double, from $979 to $2,075. That’s costing a family more than $13,000 extra per year for the same house. This has forced many Americans to rent instead, and the increased demand for apartments has driven rents to record highs.”

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