What will surprise you is that if readers buy what the mainstream media is saying, voters not only understand VP Kamala Harris’s economic policies, they prefer them.
“Kamala Harris’s economic policies proved more popular than Donald Trump’s plans in a blind test of her proposals,” the Guardian reported from an exclusive bling test poll.
It also notes, “Although Harris has received criticism for his ‘soft policies,’ a majority of all voters in the poll suggested he understood those policies well. More than 60% of voters said they understood Harris’ policies on the economy.”
People from both sides of the aisle remain pessimistic about the economy, so the most popular proposal is a federal ban on food and grocery prices, Kamala Harris. plan. Nearly half (44%) of all those polled agree that it will strengthen the economy.
The most important issue for those surveyed was the cost of living, and Harris’s pricing proposal addresses that issue. “A majority of those polled (66%) indicated that the cost of living is one of the biggest economic problems today.”
Harris wants a federal ban on price gouging as wholesale prices rise by 25% starting in 2020. The Guardian notes that some economists have criticized this plan.
However, 37 countries actually have a ban on price gouging, and they do not operate like a “Soviet-style” price setting. Erin Witte, director of consumer protection at the Consumer Federation of America told NBC the difference is that “price laws, by contrast, target corporate actions rather than mandate concrete price levels: ‘Laws that govern prices require agencies that implement them. several factors and decide whether to act is invalid.’”
Harris’s plan, in other words, is about holding companies accountable for price gouging. This is an example of what the government should be doing — to regulate big business so that it does not harm people while it profits.
This poll shows that when voters are only shown real policies, they prefer Kamala Harris four times out of five. The only policy Trump likes is not paying Social Security taxes. This plan looks good on the surface, but again the media is not demanding about Trump for some reason.
For example, Rep. John Larson (D-Conn), the ranking member of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, called CNBC’s Trump plan a “fatal mistake†because it failed to compensate for lost revenue.
Larson said Trump’s plan would eliminate the Social Security trust fund.
From the Guardian:
Guardian Poll Economic Policy
One of the biggest takeaways from this poll is that when properly presented with the economic policies of the candidate, voters chose Harris’. But for some reason voters continue to think Republicans are better on the economy, despite more than a decade of evidence.
For the media who have lamented that Harris is “short on policy” when not sticking it to Donald Trump, who is still working on a “concept plan” for the replacement of Obamacare, even though he is in the White House and destroyed Obamacare. and trying to cancel without a real replacement plan, this is a stunning rebuke.
Speaking of economic policies important to voters, this morning, the Biden-Harris administration announced cost savings for 54 prescription drugs through the Medicare Rebate Program – thanks to President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which not a single Republican voted for.
Many media outlets are missing and flailing under the Vice President’s presidential candidacy. He was not allowed to maintain the voter’s impression of him in a way that only he could. His track record has not been good in recent history, because when given that power, he has been misled and failed to focus on the real issues that matter to voters. (The media is not a monolith and many journalists do important work; this criticism is directed at the public narrative established by the beltway media and the gossip of the political news media that replaces the issue with snark, which may be why Harris did more interviews with local reporters.)
Harris spokesman Ian Sams called this poll “reality check for the Beltway class” and he is not wrong, except that they will not be checked by reality.
In recent years, too much of the media’s obsession with the chaos and drama of Donald Trump and the results of clicks and ratings seem to be incentivizing horse race-type coverage of the candidacy of a convicted and convicted rapist, whose one term in office was a mess. , a dangerous nightmare from which the nation has yet to recover.
This poll shows that if the media were really interested in educating voters about policy, voters would know who has policies they like and who they don’t.
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