I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howell.

It's Thursday August 15th and this is your Morning Wire Afternoon Update.

A Kamala Harris campaign after party in Manhattan turned into chaos last night as

anti-Israel protests spilled into a Harlem restaurant hosting the event. the protesters broke through barricades on the street and even set off smoke bombs leading to significant

disorder.

The NYPD responded swiftly, making multiple arrests.

Vice President Harris is facing backlash after announcing plans for the first federal ban on corporate price gouging in the food and grocery industries.

DailyWire senior editor Cabot Phillips has more.

The Harris campaign said the controversial plan would

quote set clear rules of the road to make clear that big corporations can't unfairly

exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries.

However, critics have likened the plan to Soviet-style price controls,

which led to shortages, and argue it ignores the true causes of inflation.

Economists on both sides of the aisle have warned the plan ignores the true causes of inflation.

Economists on both sides of the aisle have warned the plan could lead to scarcity

and higher food costs.

Morningwire spoke to former investment banker and best-selling author Carol Roth,

who argued the plan is part of Kamala Harris's effort to

distance herself from rising costs under the Biden Harris administration.

She's trying to say no, it's not us, it's not the government running two trillion dollar deficits. It's not the spending that we're doing.

It really is companies being greeting.

And when you have an industry like the food service industry, particularly grocery stores, they operate on a 1 to 3 percent profit margin and somehow she's blaming them for inflation which is silly.

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