Kamala Harris unveiled an economic blueprint Friday heavy on popular measures to cut costs for Americans, as she fleshed out her election platform ahead of the Democratic National Convention.
The speech in North Carolina – a vital battleground state – was the first time Harris, who jumped into the race against Donald Trump less than a month ago, laid out a vision for combating the inflation that soured voters on her boss President Biden.
Promising to champion an “opportunity economy,” she said, “building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency.”
And she acknowledged that while “by any measure, our economy is the strongest in the world…, many Americans don’t yet feel that progress in their daily lives.”
Harris also called on Congress to pass a first federal ban on so-called “price-gouging” by food companies that unfairly increase prices.
The vice president, vying to become the first woman president, hopes the headline-grabbing proposals will distance her from Biden’s unpopular management of price surges that hit ordinary Americans in the wake of the Covid pandemic.
