Harris Campaign adds policy platform to website after GOP insults — draws contrast with Trump’s ‘Project 2025 Agenda’

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign website was updated Sunday night with a section outlining her policy positions, after the Republican Party criticized the Democratic presidential nominee for not clearly laying out her platform.

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Harris’ campaign has come under fire from Republicans in recent weeks for offering few concrete policy proposals. Late last month, the vice president sat down with CNN alongside running mate Tim Walz to discuss some of her policy proposals and shifting positions on a number of issues. In the interview, Harris discussed her plans to build a so-called “opportunity economy” and help the middle class. This includes expanding the child tax credit, a proposed $25,000 aid package for first-time homebuyers, a cap on out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs and a tax increase on wealthy Americans and large corporations. Harris also noted that her positions on fracking have shifted, and that she no longer supports a ban on the process of extracting fossil fuels — a shift from her stance during the 2020 Democratic primaries. Her campaign’s policy page makes no mention of fracking, saying only that she plans to build on her work to address the climate crisis and lower household energy costs, among other things.

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Freedom, an overarching theme for Harris during the Democratic National Convention, is echoed in the vice president’s policy platform, including promises to “restore reproductive freedom” and “protect civil rights.” The campaign attacks Trump on these issues, calling him a “threat to our fundamental rights and freedoms,” adding, “He brags that he is ‘proudly’ responsible for hand-picking Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe , unleashing Trump-approved abortion bans in states across the country, endangering women’s lives, and threatening doctors and other health care providers with jail time.”

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Last month, the Republican National Committee launched a website, kamala2024policies.com, to ridicule the vice president for failing to outline a policy platform on her own campaign website. The RNC-funded website attacks the vice president as “weak, failed, and dangerously liberal” and her plans as “radical.” The page accuses Harris of being weak on violent crime, raising taxes on the middle class, opening the border, and giving Social Security and Medicare to undocumented immigrants.

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