In what will come as a surprise if readers buy what the mainstream media has been telling them, voters not only understand Vice President Kamala Harris' economic policies, they prefer them.
“Kamala Harris's economic policies are far more popular than Donald Trump's plans in a blind test of their proposals,” reports The Guardian from their exclusive bling test survey.
It is also noteworthy. “Although Harris has been criticized for being 'light on politics,' a majority of all voters in the poll suggested they have a good understanding of his policies.” More than 60% of voters said they understood Harris' policies on the economy.”
People on both sides of the aisle remain pessimistic about the economy, so the most popular suggestion was a federal ban on food and grocery price increases, which is Kamala Harris. plan “Almost half of all respondents (44%) agreed that it will strengthen the economy.”
The top issue for respondents was cost of living, and Harris' price hike proposal is meant to address that. “A majority (66%) of respondents said the cost of living is currently one of their biggest economic concerns.”
Harris wants a federal ban on price gouging because grocery prices have risen 25% since 2020. The Guardian notes that some economists have criticized the plan.
However, 37 states actually already have bans on price gouging, and they are not operating in a “Soviet-style” pricing format. Erin Witte, director of consumer protection at the Consumer Federation of America, told NBC that the difference is that “price gouging laws, by contrast, target corporate behavior, not specific pricing levels; several factors and determine whether the conduct was unlawful.”
In other words, Harris' plan is about holding corporations accountable for price gouging. This is an example of what the government should do to regulate big business so it doesn't hurt people too much while making a profit.
This poll shows that when voters are simply shown real politics, they prefer Kamala Harris four out of five. The only Trump policy they like is not taxing Social Security. This plan sounds good on the surface, but again, the media isn't asking Trump how you don't know why
For example, John Larson (D-Conn), a member of the House Social Security Subcommittee, called the Trump plan a “fatal mistake” on CNBC because it fails to compensate for lost income.
Larson says Trump's plan would result in cuts to the Social Security trust fund.
From the Guardian.
Guardian poll on economic policy
One of the biggest takeaways from this poll is that when the candidates' economic policies are actually presented, voters prefer Harris. Yet for some reason, voters continue to think Republicans are better on the economy, despite more than a decade of evidence to the contrary.
For a news outlet that bemoaned Harris' “lack of policy” without attributing it to Donald Trump still working on a “concept plan” to replace Obamacare, even though he was actually in the White House and undermining Obamacare. and trying to repeal it without any real replacement plan is a stunning rebuke.
Speaking of economic policy important to voters, this morning the Biden-Harris administration announced 54 prescription drug cost savings through the Medicare Rebate Program, thanks to President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, which no Republican voted for.
Much of the media has been lost and weakened under the vice president's candidacy. They have not been allowed to defend voters' impressions of him in the way they claim only they can. Their experience has not been great in recent history, because when given that power, they have abused it 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 overarching narratives supported by the media and political news media gossip, which replaces the issues with trappings, which is why Harris gave more interviews. local reporters)
Harris spokesman Ian Sams called the poll a “reality check for the Beltway class,” and he's not wrong, except that they won't be fact-checked.
In recent years, the media's overwhelming obsession with the chaos and drama of Donald Trump, and the resulting clicks and ratings, seem to be driving horse-race coverage of the candidacy of a convicted felon and convicted rapist whose one term in office was chaotic. , a dangerous nightmare from which the nation has not yet recovered.
This poll shows that if the media were actually interested in educating voters about politics, voters would know who had policies they liked and who didn't.
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