“Shark Tank” co-star Kevin O'Leary said Vice President Kamala Harris needs to distance herself from President Joe Biden in order for her economic policies to be accepted by the American people.
Harris is stage O'Leary met with President Joe Biden in Maryland on Thursday to tout the administration's efforts to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. O'Leary said on Fox News' “The Story with Martha MacCallum” that Harris needs to distance herself from Biden on the economy because polls show Biden's economic policies are unpopular.
“What I was really looking at was, would she focus somewhere,” O'Leary said. “If the strategy was to hit big business, to hit energy, to hit pharmaceuticals, [US Aggregate Bond]If she criticizes everything, she will be on the left again and will not win the election. So my prediction, and we will know more after the convention next week, is that she has to push Biden out. I understand the legacy issue and all that, but she has to distance herself from Bidennomics, which is radioactive waste for the voters. So unless she brings a positive outlook and moves to the center, she will just lose.”
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Axios reported that Harris plans to distance herself from Biden's “Bidenomics” economic policy, which polls have said has been a weakness during Biden's presidency. Report She is set to unveil her first major economic plan at a rally on Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina, and will reportedly propose a federal ban on “price gouging” by food and grocery companies. (Related: Kamala Harris addresses Joe's Achilles heel, but opens up an even bigger one for herself)
Inflation has been a devastating political issue for Biden. When he took office in January 2021, inflation was at 1.4%. peak It fell 9% in June 2022. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures the prices of everyday items, fell below 3% in July for the first time in two years.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that Vice President Harris was involved in passing the president's economic agenda and denied that she was trying to distance herself.
“What I'm saying is that Bidenomics is something that both the president and the vice president have been working on,” Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “You're calling it 'Bidenomics,' but you're talking about the president pushing for bottom-up, middle-out economic policies, not leaving the middle class behind and making sure that equity is at the center of it.”
Biden told Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy on Thursday that Harris doesn't intend to create a divide between her economic policies and Biden's.
The New York Times/Siena vote A Saturday poll showed Republican candidate Donald Trump leading Harris on economic policy, 53% to 44%, in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. vote A Financial Times poll released on August 12th found that Harris led Trump by one point on the economy, 42% to 41%, even though nearly half of respondents expressed dissatisfaction with Biden's economic policies.
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