“Donald Trump is fighting for billionaires and big corporations. I will fight to return money to middle-class and working-class families,” the 59-year-old Democratic candidate promised during a trip to North Carolina (southeast).
His team previously unveiled a program focused on purchasing power and described as “communist” by his Republican rival.
Kamala Harris proposed some concrete measures: building three million new homes to deal with the “shortage”, first-time homebuyer assistance and a new birth tax credit that could reach up to $6,000 in the first year of a child's life.
It also plans to combat real estate speculation and discourage price inflation in the food sector, while capping the price of insulin and addressing the debt Americans incur for the treatment.
The Democrat was careful not to repeat the mistakes of Joe Biden, from whom he took the torch.
“Devastating”
The Democratic president has spent his term promoting his major investment plans and the good American economy, but he has never been able to articulate a convincing message in the face of inflation that has hit the world's largest economy.
Kamala Harris, on the other hand, insisted on household sentiments about the cost of living: “Too many people feel that even if they work as hard as they can, they can't make it. »
The vice president, minding her image, talked about her mother's efforts to buy a house and told how she worked at McDonald's when she was a student to earn pocket money.
All to distinguish himself from the 78-year-old billionaire he will face at the polls on November 5 and whose economic projects he destroyed.
Recalling that Donald Trump wanted to drastically increase tariffs, Kamala Harris considered this to be tantamount to “imposing a national tax on consumption”, which would be “devastating”.
“That means higher prices for all your daily needs. A + Trump + tax on gas, a + Trump + tax on food, a “Trump tax'' on clothing…, she listed, asserting that her rival's plan would cost $3,900 a year for the average family .
Plagiarism
“Comrade Harris is all about Communism! “, counterattacked former President Donald Trump on Friday.
The term obviously has a particularly strong pejorative connotation in the United States.
According to a University of Michigan poll released Friday, 41 percent of consumers think the vice president is a better candidate for the economy, while 38 percent think Donald Trump is the right choice on the economy.
A setback for the Republican, former businessman, who had always largely dominated Joe Biden in this type of opinion poll.
The Democrat drew the ire of Donald Trump by recently proposing to eliminate taxes on tips in the hotel and restaurant industries and other service activities. The Republican accused her of “plagiarizing” one of his ideas.
His running mate JD Vance made a similar rebuke to Kamala Harris, accusing her of copying his proposal to increase the family tax credit. He proposes a tax increase of $5,000 a year per child for American families.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan fiscal policy center, estimated that Harris' package would cost between $1.7 trillion and $2 trillion.