Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first major policy speech
about a concern that is top of mind for many
voters, the economy.
She is promising what she calls an opportunity economy with
programs to help Americans lower cost and build wealth and
to protect them from corporate greed.
With more on the specifics of the bright vice president's
To Do List, we turn to AB CS Selena Wang,
who's traveling with the vice president in North Carolina tonight.
Tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris in her first major policy
speech, casting herself as a champion of the middle class.
Building up the middle class will be a defining goal
of my presidency.
Harris acknowledging that even as inflation slows, middle class families
are still feeling the pinch.
The vice president says she's been there.
Later in college, I worked at McDonald's to earn spending
money.
Well, some of the people I worked with were raising
families on that paycheck.
They worked second or even third jobs to pay rent
and buy food.
That only gets harder when the cost of living goes
up.
Harris zeroing in on pocketbook issues, proposing a ban on
corporate price gouging on food and groceries up to $25,000
in down payment support for first time homeowners, a tax
credit of up to $6000 for families with a newborn
and capping the cost of insulin at $35 and out
of pocket expenses for prescription drugs.
At 2000 tonight, many questions remain about how Harris would
get her plan through Congress and how it would be
paid for.
But in North Carolina, the vice president focused on drawing
a contrast with Donald Trump.
He plans to give billionaires massive tax cuts year after
year.
You know, I think that if you want to know
who someone cares about, look who they fight for.
And she attacked Trump's proposal for tariffs on all imports.
It will mean higher prices on just about every one
of your daily needs.
A Trump tax on gas, a Trump tax on food,
a Trump tax on clothing, a Trump tax on over
the counter medication.
Tonight, the Trump campaign firing back, bashing Harris's economic plan
as extremely damaging and a massive expansion of government control.
Selena Wang joins us now from Morrisville, NC Selena, the
vice president, of course, chose North Carolina to roll out
her plan, a key battleground state she's certainly hoping to
capture in November.
That's right, Lindsey, this is a state that Donald Trump
won twice.
But Harris is gaining ground here in the polls, and
she's hoping to make a dent.
This weekend.
She's barnstorming battleground Pennsylvania with Tim Walls, trying to keep
up the momentum all the way through the Democratic National
Convention.
Lindsey, Lena, thank you so much.