Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz launched the main points of their coverage program on their marketing campaign web site Sunday, forward of Tuesday’s scheduled debate between Harris and Donald Trump.
Now we have detailed the stark variations between Harris’ marketing campaign web site selling a optimistic approach ahead for America and Trump’s web site promoting aggrievement and worry (and surplus crimson MAGA hats). These coverage pages supply up one other instance of the variations between the 2 campaigns.
Titled “A New Method Ahead,” Harris’ web page promotes her marketing campaign’s designs for constructing “a chance economic system and decrease prices for households.” It consists of 10 factors, every with drop downs that element the coverage concepts Harris plans on pushing as president.
Trump’s 20 all-caps bullet factors embrace numerous exclamation marks and skim like a fascist billboard. To be able to see the “particulars” of this platform, you might be bounced to a different web page crammed with related sentiments that reads extra just like the manifesto of an indignant, disgruntled drunk individual that features little or no in the way in which of specifics.
Below “lower taxes for center class households,” the Harris-Walz web site goes by way of the plans to increase the Earned Earnings and Youngster Tax Credit. She additionally makes a pledge to not elevate any taxes on households making lower than $400,000, making up revenues by rolling again Trump and the GOP’s tax cuts for the wealthy.
Trump’s promise is to make his tax cuts for the wealthy “everlasting.” The remainder of the platform appears to be an growth on the tone of the bullet-point manifesto. One of many bigger sections of coverage is titled: “SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION.” It consists of this Joseph McCarthy-era hysteria below “Strict Vetting”:
Republicans will use current Federal Legislation to maintain overseas Christian-hating Communists, Marxists, and Socialists out of America. Those that be part of our Nation should love our Nation. We’ll use excessive vetting to make sure that jihadists and jihadist sympathizers should not admitted.
Whereas Harris’ coverage web page consists of her plans to assist develop small companies and decrease drug well being care prices, Trump’s web page features a entire part promising to beautify Washington, D.C., and to verify to “manage a Nationwide Celebration to mark the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the US of America.”
In the long run, the 2 campaigns’ coverage pages replicate the final tenor of what they’re operating on: Harris-Walz are speaking about the best way to greatest transfer ahead to afford extra individuals an opportunity on the American dream, whereas Trump-Vance are principally desirous about weaving a narrative of an apocalyptic America that may solely be saved by the wealthiest of males.
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