194: WaPo’s Catherine Rampell on how the Economy is Helping Harris (A Little)

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🗓️ 27 October 2024

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The economy is always one of the most important issues in any election. So how does Kamala Harris's vision for America's economy stack up against Donald Trump's? Catherine Rampell from the Washington Post joins us to discuss. Trump's economic plan seems to revolve around tariffs, an issue that he seems to have a hard time understanding. Not only that, his threat to deport millions of undocumented workers will undoubtedly drive up the cost of goods around the country. It's clear that Trump cannot be trusted on this issue. Plus, Catherine tells us the story of Flint, Michigan and a program that is aimed to give money to families of newborn babies. It's a plan so successful and so popular that Kamala Harris has adopted a version of it for her campaign platform. Can it work on the national level?

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change because the great
0:08.7	Catherine Rampel, Washington Post columnist on matters of economic, returns for her third
0:15.7	visit to the podcast, and she discusses a number of matters that make me feel a little bit more optimistic
0:21.7	about the election that will soon be upon us.
0:26.4	First of all, we discuss her recent column about how Americans are beginning to feel better
0:31.5	about our economy because the economy is, in fact, doing quite well these days.
0:36.7	Folks pay increasing faster than inflation,
0:39.5	which is coming down toward the 2% range, which we normally expect in this country, and
0:44.7	interest rates coming down as well. And then, of course, we have so many top officials of
0:50.1	Donald Trump's first administration publicly coming forward in confiding what a fascist goon,
0:57.8	their former boss is.
0:59.1	Mark Millie, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Trump's term, told Bob Woodward
1:05.0	that Trump is, quote, fascist to the core.
1:08.9	Fascist to the core. Fascist to the core.
1:11.1	John Kelly, who was Trump's chief of staff longer than any other, said recently.
1:15.9	The former president is in the far right area.
1:23.4	He's certainly an authoritarian, um,
1:27.8	admires people who are dictators.
1:31.3	Uh, he has said that.
1:33.1	Um, so he certainly falls into the,
1:35.3	into the general definition of,
1:37.7	of, uh, fascist for sure.
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