US presidential election: Democratic candidate Harris lays out economic plans | Aljazair News
US Democratic Presidential candidate Karma-la Kamala Harris has unveiled her economic agenda in her first big policy speech. Speaking in the battleground state of North Carolina, She made ambitious promises aimed at courting the American middle class - and says Republican rival Donald Trump would only help the rich.
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00:00This was Kamala Harris' attempt to turn a corner, to tackle one of the Democratic Party's
00:09most vulnerable issues, the economy, head-on.
00:12If you want to know who someone cares about, look who they fight for.
00:18Drawing on her own humble origins, she spoke of working at McDonald's and the pride her
00:23mother felt when they bought their first home after years of renting.
00:28Harris said if elected president, she would help qualified first-time homebuyers do the
00:33same.
00:34My administration will provide first-time homebuyers with $25,000 to help with the down
00:42payment on a new home.
00:45This was perhaps the most ambitious of the many campaign promises Harris made on Friday.
00:51Another, to ban grocery companies from price-gouging, and to crack down on the meat industry that
00:57has seen record profits as it raised consumer prices.
01:02Harris tried to draw a contrast with Donald Trump, accusing him of siding with billionaires
01:07and wanting to impose tariffs that would raise prices further.
01:11A Trump tax on gas, a Trump tax on food, a Trump tax on clothing.
01:19The Trump campaign called Harris' proposals a government price-fixing scheme that would
01:23fail.
01:25But they seem to have resonated with voters, like Danielle Carey, a server at a Raleigh
01:30restaurant.
01:32She says she likes Harris' plan to help homebuyers and renters.
01:36It would be a tremendous help.
01:37It would mean an absolutely lot to me.
01:38It's very hard.
01:39I've been searching everywhere and just the waiting list for housing right now is six
01:42months to a year to even get into individual ones.
01:45But she's skeptical about an earlier Harris proposal, also supported by Trump, to stop
01:50taxing tips for service workers.
01:53She says that may jeopardize her government benefits after retirement.
01:57I think it will hurt us in the long run, to be honest.
02:00I'm not really a fan of it.
02:03But it was pure enthusiasm inside the Harris campaign event.
02:08Polls show Harris leads Trump by four points nationally and is ahead in key swing states.
02:14She is riding the momentum that we have seen since last month when she jumped into this
02:19race.
02:20But still, there are many weeks ahead before Election Day.
02:23And her challenge now, facing Kamala Harris, is to continue this momentum forward.