Harris Rolls Out Her "Opportunity Economy" Plan ( feat. Kara Swisher)
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
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Summary
Vice President Kamala Harris laid out what she called her “pragmatic” approach to growing the economy during a speech in Pittsburgh Wednesday. While Harris has been closing the gap with former President Donald Trump, when it comes to which candidate voters trust more to handle the economy, most polls show he still has the edge on one of the top issues in the race. But it’s not like Trump has particularly good ideas for voters who want the economy to work better for them. Among his more hare-brained plans is to appoint Elon Musk to find ways to cut government spending. Long-time tech journalist Kara Swisher explains how Trump and Musk became so close.
And in headlines: The House and Senate passed a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown…for now, a new report from a bipartisan Senate committee detailed multiple Secret Service failures around the first assassination attempt against Trump, and a Missouri man was put to death despite state prosecutors' attempts to appeal his sentence.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, September 26. I'm Jane Coastin, and this is what a day, the show where we're celebrating the court-ordered liquidation of Alex Jones's conspiracy theory network info wars. |
| 0:17.0 | Wait, does this mean we could buy info wars? |
| 0:21.0 | Because if so, I have some very creative ideas. |
| 0:27.0 | On today's show, Elon Musk's rise in GOP politics. Plus, Congress does the least and prevents |
| 0:37.6 | the government from shutting down for three months. But first, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Pittsburgh on Wednesday |
| 0:45.0 | to give a major economic address to voters. Pennsylvania is arguably the |
| 0:50.0 | most important swing state in the upcoming election. |
| 0:52.9 | Anne Harris's message played dissentress voters who will likely decide which way the state goes. |
| 0:57.7 | She called herself a capitalist and repeatedly emphasized that her plan was rooted in her |
| 1:01.7 | middle class upbringing. |
| 1:03.0 | I have pledged that building a strong middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency. |
| 1:10.0 | And the reason is not about politics and it's not about ideology. |
| 1:22.0 | From my perspective it's just common sense. |
| 1:26.0 | It's just common sense. |
| 1:28.0 | It's just common sense. |
| 1:30.0 | It's actually what works. But while Harris has been closing the gap with former |
| 1:36.2 | President Donald Trump on the economy, most polls still show that voters trust |
| 1:40.2 | him more on the subject. And that's a problem for Democrats, |
| 1:43.3 | because it's a top issue this election cycle. |
| 1:45.9 | And you know the saying. |
| 1:47.4 | It's the economy, stupid. |
| 1:49.4 | But it's not like Trump has particularly good ideas for voters who want the economy to work better for them. |
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