'Lunatic behavior'
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to roll out her economic plan Friday during a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina. Early indications are it will have a progressive populist thrust, including attacks on corporate "price gouging," which conservative critics say is a smokescreen to deflect from the Biden-Harris administration's handling of inflation.
Michael Tyler, the Harris-Walz campaign communications director, said on CNN's "Newsroom" Wednesday that Americans "can expect her to talk about the ways in which she wants to move this economy forward and lower costs for middle-class families," noting Harris "understands that for too many families, prices remain too high." Additionally, this week, the campaign insisted tackling inflation will be a "day one" priority.
However, conservatives are criticizing Harris for her "day one" claim about going after inflation, insisting she has had four years to do something about it.
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"Day one in office was 3½ years ago. What have you been doing in the meantime to tackle inflation?" E.J. Antoni said. "You've been creating it."
Similar remarks were echoed by former President Trump Wednesday during his own stop in North Carolina.
"I gave Harris and Biden an economic miracle, and they quickly turned it into an economic nightmare," the former president said.
In advance of Harris' first formal policy speech of her presidential campaign Friday, her team announced Harris plans to call for first-of-its-kind federal controls on food and grocery "price gouging" by corporations. The proposal would give authority to the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to impose harsh penalties on companies for setting excessively high prices…….
Critics blast Harris' grasp of inflation, attack on business ahead of policy speech: 'Lunatic behavior'
Vice President Harris will unveil her economic plan Friday, striking out against corporate "price gouging," a tack conservative detractors say ignores the real causes of inflation.
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