There’s Nothing New About Kamala’s ‘New Way Forward’ — Except Stuff She Stole From Trump
Fifty days after Joe Biden quit his re-election campaign – and one day before she debates Donald Trump — Kamala Harris finally posted an “Issues” page on her website, detailing her plans if she wins the election in November. Now we know why she waited so long.
She calls this “A New Way Forward.” But it’s actually just the Biden plan with a few added wrinkles — which either have been widely panned or were stolen from Donald Trump.
The day after Biden made his announcement, Harris had her own campaign website set up. And it included an “Issues” page, which was a copy of what Biden had put up on his campaign website. You can still find this page on the Wayback Machine. (To the left is a screenshot of that page. The Harris campaign deleted it after a few days, and it remained blank until Monday.)
Her new Issues page is a bit more fleshed out than Biden’s, but looking through the proposals, you see that she is offering nothing new at all. It’s just stuff copied over from the Biden plan, with a few added details. Examples:
- Harris says she’ll “cut taxes for middle-class families” and make “the wealthiest Americans and the largest corporations pay their fair share.” Biden-Harris said they “are fighting to give tax cuts to the middle class while making the ultra-wealthy and big corporations finally pay their fair share.”
- She promises that “no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in taxes.” Biden-Harris promised that “Under their plan, nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in federal taxes.”
- She says she “will make affordable health care a right, not a privilege by expanding and strengthening the Affordable Care Act.” Biden-Harris said they “believe health care is a right, not a privilege” and are “fighting to expand affordable care.”
- She pledges to “never allow a national abortion ban to become law. And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, she will sign it.” Biden-Harris pledged “ to restore the protections of Roe—and they will never allow a national abortion ban to become law.”
- Harris says she will “provide first-time homebuyers with up to $25,000 to help with their down payments,” and “has put forward a comprehensive plan to build 3 million more rental units and homes” and would “sign legislation to outlaw new forms of price fixing by corporate landlords.” This is a slightly amped-up version of what Biden-Harris announced in July, when they called on Congress to pass “the Biden-Harris Housing Plan, which would build 2 million homes, and provide $10,000 in mortgage relief to unlock homeownership for millions of Americans.” That plan would also threaten corporate landlords with losing tax breaks unless they agreed to “cap rent increases on existing units at 5%.
- Harris says “fundamental freedoms are at stake in this election.” Biden-Harris said “our democracy and our freedoms are at stake in this election.”
Various other proposals – raising the national minimum wage, more gun control laws, “tackling the climate crisis,” and so on – are all things Biden-Harris have been pushing for four years. The one big idea she released so far — price controls on grocery stores — was so thoroughly discredited that she hardly mentions it.
The only truly “new” stuff from Harris are her proposals to end taxes on tips, expand the tax deduction for business startups, and build the border wall. All of which she stole from Trump because she knows they poll well, and none of which she’d ever get done if elected.
Biden was notorious for his plagiarism. Looks like Harris learned from the master.
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