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Harris Bid Burdened By What Is
She may be unburdened by what has been, but Vice President Kamala Harris is still inheriting several five-alarm fires.
Vice President Kamala Harris wants to save America. That much is clear from her victorious stint at the DNC this week.
But first, she has to win. And to win, she will need to convince persuadable voters that she, not former President Donald Trump, can dampen the crisis conflagrations gripping domestic and foreign policy.
At home, inflation is putting the hurt on American households. Not everyone is convinced Harris's policies are right for the moment.
“When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls,” fumed Catherine Rampell for the Washington Post on August 15, 2024. “It’s hard to exaggerate how bad Kamala Harris’s price-gouging proposal is.”
“It’s not hard to figure out where this proposal came from,” Rampell scoffed. “Voters want to blame someone for high grocery bills, and the presidential candidates have apparently decided the choices are either the Biden administration or corporate greed. Harris has chosen the latter.”
“It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is,” Rampell complained. “It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and…