Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Harris Succeeding in Trump's Strongest Area: The Economy

Vice President Kamala Harris is becoming more preferred than Donald Trump on matters involving the economy, according to polls. On Monday, a Harris Poll survey of 2,122 adults, conducted for The Guardian, showed that Americans largely prefer Harris' economic proposals to Trump's when presented with each candidate's policies in a blind test.

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An Echelon Insights survey of 1,005 registered voters, released September 25, also suggested Harris was more trusted than Trump to do a better job on the key issues related to the economy and voters' finances.

The economy is considered the most important issue for voters in any election. Previous polling indicated that Trump was considered the better presidential candidate for the economy, first over President Joe Biden, and then Harris.

Harris has pushed her own economic platform since she became the Democratic presidential candidate. This includes the vice president's "opportunity economy" strategy to help lower the cost of everyday goods, and extending the child tax credit to $6,000 for families for the first year of their child's life.

The Biden-Harris administration has seen the country be hit with decades-high levels of inflation as well as record-breaking gas prices. Gas prices have since fallen, and inflation dropped to a three-year low of 2.5 percent in August. The U.S. unemployment rate is also lower than the long-term average.

The Harris Poll/The Guardian survey gave respondents a list of 12 economic proposals - six from Harris and six from Trump - and asked them to select which ones they agreed with. Those taking part in the survey were not told whose campaign each policy belonged to.

The results showed that four of the five most popular economic policies were Harris'.

The most popular was Harris' proposed federal ban on price gouging of food items (44 percent).

It's always interesting to note how those who don't OD on politics every single day - like we do - see the campaigns and hear their messages. Turns out that the most popular economic policy from either campaign is the one most derided by beltway right wingers as either "communist" or "socialist". The general public doesn't quite see it that way, and perhaps they understand the many existent state laws already on the books and in use - in both red and blue states - that makes it illegal to price gouge consumers in times of emergencies and sees a federal law as something equally logical and sensible.

Hopefully, Harris and Walz will keep articulating their economic pitch and point to its likeability in blind taste tests to further erode any notion that Trump's economic ideas aren't exactly like his healthcare plan to replace the ACA - basically non-existent and unrelated to what the average American wants nor needs.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-02 07:18 AM

Not if the Longshoreman union has anything to say about it.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2024-10-02 10:58 AM

The Guardian, now there is an 'biased organization' - LOL!

#3 | Posted by MSgt at 2024-10-02 05:03 PM

The problem with this is that they didn't list her policy as "I was born into a middle class family..."

Do people think she is going to actually enact what she claims?

To be fair... I don't think Trump will do what he states either.

My real point is that even given this poll, I don't know that come time to vote that

#4 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-10-03 11:16 AM

people will be thinking of the candidates and the economy in this way.

#5 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-10-03 11:16 AM

my post got cut off #3 and #4 go together smh

#6 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-10-03 11:17 AM

sigh... 4 and 5.

#7 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-10-03 12:32 PM

Can anyone tell us what here economic plan actually is?

#8 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-10-03 01:22 PM

No worries Fishpoo.

Trumpy has a "concept of a plan".

That's all we need!

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-10-03 01:24 PM

Can anyone tell us what here economic plan actually is?

Yeah idjit, here's all 82 pages of it: kamalaharris.com

#10 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-03 01:33 PM

And Fishlips, would you please post a link to Trump's economic plans for us-here unwashed heathens?

#11 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-03 01:34 PM

Personally, I'd like to see his plan for health insurance.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-10-03 03:05 PM

Does that mean electricity, insurance and food is coming down?

#13 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-10-03 03:50 PM

All the pdf files and budgets in the world are meaningless until costs actually come down.

#14 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-10-03 03:54 PM

Does that mean electricity, insurance and food is coming down?

#13 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

No. And Trumpy has no plans to ever bring them down. In fact his "concept of a plan" for tariffs will increase your costs by thousands of dollars a year and will basically be an 80 billion tax increase for middle class Americans.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-10-03 04:09 PM

The Guardian.... LMAO

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-03 04:10 PM

" I'd like to see his plan for health insurance."

Just look at pre-Obamacare, when insurance companies could pick-and-choose their clientele, only this time, on mega-steroids due to the data onslaught.

Too many Google searches about expensive medical procedures? Off to the high-risk pool for you!!!

FTW: The year before O'Care, I was paying about $500/mo. My wife's best friend and her husband, stuck in a high-risk pool after she beat breast cancer, were paying $5,000/mo.

That's where we're headed.

#17 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-10-03 04:37 PM

Trump never had a strong economy.

He was handed a strong economy from Obama, embezzled $2 trillion in tax cuts, and left the nation sinking when he handed it over to Biden.

The only people who believe Trump was a good president are the same people who believe in things like alternative facts and conspiracy theories from QAnon.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-10-03 04:42 PM

The biggest preexisting condition will be COVID, as long-term effects aren't fully known, but since it is a disease that attacks the circulatory system, increased heart related incidents and strokes are expected by many medical experts. So if you've had COVID you WILL be paying more if the GQP and Dotard destroy the ACA this time.

#19 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-10-03 05:58 PM

when presented with each candidate's policies in a blind test.
The operative word here is blind. Had the respondents known whose policy positions they were, Harris would not have come out the favorite says a lot about people not voting their economic self interest.

#20 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2024-10-04 09:37 AM

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