{"id":31737,"date":"2024-09-03T04:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31737"},"modified":"2024-09-03T04:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:25:22","slug":"harris-campaign-hits-trump-over-economy-in-new-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31737","title":{"rendered":"Harris campaign hits Trump over economy in new ad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new ad from Vice President Harris\u2019s campaign works to draw a stark contrast with former President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>on the economy as part of a massive post-Labor Day advertising blitz<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all know costs are too high. But while corporations are gouging families, Trump is focused on giving them tax cuts. But Kamala Harris\u2002<\/u><\/a>is focused on you,\u201d says the ad, launched Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 30-second spot, titled \u201cFocused<\/u><\/a>,\u201d is the campaign\u2019s fourth economic ad since the Democratic National Convention late last month. It\u2019s part of the campaign\u2019s \u201caggressive efforts\u201d to reach voters and sound alarms about Project 2025, a 900-page hard-right policy blueprint for the next GOP administration, on the other side of the aisle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis election, the choice comes down to a simple question: Which candidate is focused on the American people?\u201d Harris-Walz national spokesperson Charles Kretchmer Lutvak said in a release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris \u201cknows costs are still too high for Americans and has a plan to bring them down,\u201d Lutvak said, while Trump \u201ceither doesn\u2019t get it or doesn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new ad is part of the Harris-Walz campaign\u2019s staggering $370 million digital and TV ad reservations, set to run from Labor Day to Election Day, building on the campaign\u2019s $90 million media blitz<\/u><\/a> for the last few weeks of August. The ads are aimed at battleground voters<\/u><\/a> and will highlight Harris\u2019s personal story and contrast her agenda with Trump\u2019s policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Reuters\/Ipsos poll released last week<\/u><\/a> found Harris gaining ground on Trump on the economy. While 43 percent of registered voters backed the former president\u2019s plan for employment and the economy, Harris was just a few points behind, at 40 percent. A July iteration of the survey had Trump up 11 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris unveiled her economic agenda\u2002last month, including<\/u><\/a> proposals to cut taxes, boost housing construction and place a federal ban on grocery price gouging. Trump\u2019s proposals include<\/u><\/a> extending provisions to his 2017 tax law, doing away with taxes on Social Security benefits and reducing the corporate income tax rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the campaign trail Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D), have been working to appeal to middle-class voters<\/u><\/a>, touting Harris\u2019s upbringing as the daughter of a working mom, and highlighting her work at McDonald\u2019s while she got her college degree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her highly anticipated first sit-down interview since launching her 2024 campaign, Harris said her day-one priority<\/u><\/a> would be strengthening the middle class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo what we can to support and strengthen the middle class,\u201d Harris said about what she\u2019d do on the first day of a potential presidential term. \u201cWhen I look at the aspirations, the goals, the ambitions of the American people, I think people are looking for a new way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pressed by CNN\u2019s Dana Bash\u2002<\/u><\/a>on why Harris, as vice president, hasn\u2019t been able to take those steps already, Harris cited the Covid-19 pandemic as a hurdle to the Biden administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFirst of all, we had to recover as an economy. And we have done that,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new ad from Vice President Harris\u2019s campaign works to draw a stark contrast with former President Trump\u2002on the economy as part of a massive post-Labor Day advertising blitz. \u201cWe all know costs are too high. But while corporations are gouging families, Trump is focused on giving them tax cuts. But Kamala Harris\u2002is focused on you,\u201d says the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24949,1637,30319,2302,1230],"class_list":["post-31737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ad-campaign","tag-campaign","tag-economic-issues","tag-harris","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31739,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737\/revisions\/31739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}