The Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday called Kamala Harris's economic plans a copy of President Joe Biden's policies. Continuing his remarks in the debate against Harris, the former US president said that Harris has no plan of her own and it is merely of “four sentences”.
"She doesn't have a plan. She copied Biden's plan, and it's like four sentences... four sentences that are just, 'Oh, we'll try and lower taxes.' She doesn't have a plan," he said during the prime-time showdown on ABC.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris locked horns over a range of issues, including abortion policies, immigration, US inflation, the Israel-Hamas war, the Russia-Ukraine war, the state of the US economy post-pandemic, etc.
At one moment, Donald Trump even called the US Vice President a Marxist and called her policies destructive to the US economy. Retaliating to Donald Trump's claim that Kamala Harris's election plan is a copy of Joe Biden's, the Democratic US presidential candidate said, “Clearly, I am not Joe Biden, and certainly not Donald Trump, and what I do offer is a new generation of leadership for our country.”
The 90-minute debate played out inside Philadelphia's National Constitutional Center. In accordance with rules negotiated by both campaigns, there was no live audience and the candidates' microphones were muted when it was not their turn to speak.
The debate opened with an unexpectedly wonky exchange on the economy, Harris took on Trump for his plan to put in place sweeping tariffs and for the trade deficit he ran as president; Trump slammed Harris for inflation that he incorrectly said was the worst in the country's history.
The exchange ended up with some of Trump's traditional bombast. He said Harris was a “Marxist” even though she had just cited positive reviews of her economic plans from Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. But it was particularly notable for Harris' effort to turn the tables on Trump.
