With two months to go before the US presidential election, the candidates are outlining their vision for the world’s biggest economy.
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris says she plans to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy while the Republican hopeful Donald Trump says he’ll slash what he says is unnecessary federal spending.
The economy and inflation are top priorities for voters as many are struggling to make ends meet.
So how will the state of the economy play into the election in November?
Presenter: James Bays
Guests
Eric Ham – political analyst
Robert Scott – independent economist
Dimitris Valatsas – chief economist and founding partner at Aurora Macro Strategies
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Vice President Kamala Harris defeated former President Donald Trump in their debate because she “looked presidential,” according to ex-Trump administration official Anthony Scaramucci.
Harris and Trump faced off for the first and possibly only time in Philadelphia on Tuesday, with both candidates declaring victory soon after. Polls and pundits largely suggested that the vice president outperformed Trump.
Scaramucci, who served a brief stint as Trump’s White House communications director in 2017, said during a CNN appearance on Thursday that he thought Harris could have presented “more fundamentals” on the economy during the debate.
The former Trump official, who is backing Harris in this year’s election, went on to say that the vice president won the debate based on her demeanor, arguing that she looked like she belonged in the White House.
Scaramucci shared that former Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a former Trump ally who helped him prepare for his 2020 debates with President Joe Biden, expressed similar sentiments in a text message following the debate.
Vice President Kamala Harris is pictured during her debate with former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia on September 10, while ex-Trump official Anthony Scaramucci is shown in the inset. Scaramucci on Thursday said that Harris…
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“Where she won that debate is she looked presidential,” Scaramucci said. “She showed up, she was classy, she was comported properly.”
“Chris Christie sent me a text and said, ‘She deserves to be there. She looks like she deserves to be there,'” he added. “And that’s the win for her.”
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement to Newsweek that “nobody is going to listen to someone who barely lasted more time than an expired ham sandwich as White House communications director” in response to Scaramucci’s remarks.
Newsweek reached out for comment to the Harris campaign via email on Thursday night.
Scaramucci also predicted that Trump would eventually agree to participate in another debate with Harris, despite the former president saying in a Truth Social post Thursday that there would be “no” additional debates because he believes that he “clearly won” the first contest.
“It’s 100 percent that he’s gonna debate,” Scaramucci said. “He’s gonna say he’s not gonna debate. He knows he lost the debate … He would have never shown up in the [post-debate press] spin room if he had won that debate.”
“He knows he’s debating her again,” he continued. “But he has to have a buildup, he thinks it’s a negotiating chip. He’s trying to show his macho flex.”
Trump has repeatedly cited favorable but unscientific and easily manipulated polling from social media and conservative media outlets as evidence that he defeated Harris on Tuesday.
Scientific polls have suggested the opposite, with surveys conducted by CNN/SSRS, YouGov and Reuters/Ipsos all finding that a majority of Americans thought Harris was the debate winner.
Any potential impact that the debate may have on the election outcome remains to be seen. An average of recent polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight suggests that the race remains neck-and-neck, with Harris leading Trump nationally by 2.8 percent as of Thursday.
The smears against Haitian immigrants, which Biden called “simply wrong,” inspired a slate of bomb threats in Ohio
Published September 13, 2024 7:19PM (EDT)
President of United States Joe Biden at the Ukraine Compact during the final day of the NATO Summit in Washington DC, United States on July 11, 2024. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Outside the White House on Friday, in remarks before a brunch celebrating Black excellene, Biden defended the Haitian-American community — including White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — and denounced the incendiary comments comments from Trump.
“I want to take a moment to say something. So many Americans, like Karine [Jean-Pierre], as you point out, is a proud Haitian American, a community that’s under attack in our country right now. It’s simply wrong,” Biden said. “This has to stop, what he’s doing. It has to stop.”
Trump has repeatedly accused Haitian immigrants in the town of Springfield, Ohio of eating local pets. The white nationalist rumor spread quickly after being boosted by Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and Sen. Ted Cruz.
The attacks against Haitian immigrants from Trump and running mate JD Vance have motivated bomb threats at schools in Springfield. On Friday, Trump refused to back down from the bigoted rhetoric, instead promising to deport Haitian immigrants, despite their legal status.
“We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio. Large deportations. We’re gonna get these people out,” Trump said.
The Harris campaign has also denounced the bigoted remarks, with vice presidential nominee Tim Walz shutting down chants of “we don’t eat cats” in Michigan on Thursday, saying “it would be funnier, too, if it wasn’t so dangerous.”
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