As of August 6, more than two weeks into the presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to unveil her policy.
Harris, who won President Joe Biden's endorsement on July 21, went undefeated in the virtual voting at the Democratic National Convention and became the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Harris has begun her campaign and chosen her running mate, but the vice president has yet to announce her policies. Campaign website. (Related article: Where is Kamala Harris? The vice president is nearly a month into her 2024 campaign.)
The official “Harris for President” campaign website allows visitors to learn how to “Take Action,” visit the Merchandise Store, and “Meet VP Kamala Harris.” The “Meet VP Kamala Harris” tab provides a biography of the 59-year-old Harris, promotes the work of the Biden-Harris Administration, and details her time as a U.S. Senator and Attorney General of California. Under Biden, Harris led messaging on abortion access and oversaw the migration crisis at the southern border.
“She is now running for President of the United States to protect our freedoms, achieve justice and continue to expand opportunity so all Americans can thrive, not just survive,” the website reads.
Fans hold up signs that read “Hot People for Harris” as Megan Thee Stallion performs during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the Georgia Convention Center in Atlanta, Georgia on July 30, 2024. (Photo by Julia Beverly/Getty Images)
Trump campaign Website Trump has published the Republican National Committee's platform as his own on its website, titled “Agenda 47.” In both the form of a 20-point pledge and a larger 16-page document, the former president pledges to “close the border and stop immigrants” and to “end inflation and make America affordable again.” Trump's platform largely mirrors the priorities and values ​​of the previous administration.
“America needs determined Republican leadership at every level of government to address the fundamental threats to our survival: a disastrously open border, a weakened economy, crippling limits on American energy production, a weakened military and attacks on our justice system,” the Republican platform is promoted on Trump's website. read.
Harris has shifted positions on some issues and has yet to define herself as a candidate. Within 10 days of the start of the campaign, her campaign has backtracked on some of her previous policy positions. Harris, who was seeking the White House in 2020 but is now vice president, Ban Fracking, Federal Mandates Gun buyback And that abolition Private health insurance. But since launching her 2024 campaign, Harris' campaign has maintained that the vice president supports a ban on assault weapons, rather than a mandatory federal buyback. according to The vice president's campaign also shifted her anti-fracking stance, saying she no longer wants a single-payer health care system, according to The New York Times. (RELATED: It didn't take long for the Harris campaign to backtrack on its left-leaning positions)
I'm Kamala Harris and I'm running for President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/6qAM32btjj
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 25, 2024
In 2020, Harris praised the idea of ​​defunding police shortly before Biden selected her as his running mate. When CNN host Pamela Brown asked Harris' national campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu if the vice president still held that view, a campaign staffer said she didn't think so.
“My point is, what you just said was taken out of context,” Landrieu said. “Her position has always been that you can be tough and smart on crime, and you need to defund the police, but you also need funding and rehabilitation to make the criminal justice system safer. You can do both.”
Donald Trump personally handpicked three Supreme Court justices who will overturn the protections of Roe v. Wade.
They did just that, just as he intended, and now he wants to pass a nationwide abortion ban.
I won't let that happen.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 4, 2024
According to a Daily Caller source, part of the Trump campaign's strategy is to take Harris off script and press her about her change of attitude. Harris has avoided the press since launching her campaign. The vice president has not held a press conference or given an interview in the first 15 days of her campaign.
“Vice President Harris has proudly represented the United States on the world stage, meeting with more than 150 world leaders and strengthening vital alliances that counter tyranny abroad, and is equally committed to stopping dictators and authoritarians at home,” Harris' website states. “She has led the movement to protect fundamental freedoms, including abortion rights and the right to vote.”
