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How Trump and Harris Compare on Economic Policy

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

Politics, News Commentary, News

4 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

How do the proposed economic policies of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump differ—and where is there overlap? Adam Posen, the president of the nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics, joins FP Live to discuss the two campaigns’ agendas. Suggested reading: Adam Posen on Industrial Policy: America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up Ravi Agrawal’s Interview With U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai (FP Live March 2023) Edward Alden on Robert Lighthizer: The Man Who Would Help Trump Upend the Global Economy Jared Cohen: Don’t Bet Against the Dollar Keith Johnson: Trump’s Plan to Weaken the Dollar Makes No Sense FP Staff: The Kamala Harris Doctrine Peterson Institute for International Economics: Election 2024: Assessing Presidential Economic Platforms Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the show. Ever since Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee

0:46.2

in the 2024 presidential election, everyone has been scrambling to get a clearest sense

0:52.2

of her policies, not just how they differ from

0:55.5

Donald Trump's, but also if there's any daylight between her and President Joe Biden, her current

1:01.1

boss. The word vibes has come up a lot in this election cycle, and Harris clearly has good

1:08.7

vibes. Her 11th hour candidacy has supercharged this campaign.

1:14.2

And the vibes are extremely excellent.

1:16.8

And that is showing up in the polls as well.

1:19.0

According to a new survey conducted by the Financial Times

1:22.0

and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business,

1:25.3

more Americans trust Harris to handle the U.S. economy than Trump.

1:29.9

It's not by much, just a percentage point difference, but it marks the first time since the

1:35.4

survey began about a year ago that the Democratic nominee was ahead of Trump.

1:41.1

Now, vibes are not unimportant, but the Harris campaign realizes they need to add more detail,

1:48.4

and we are expecting them to do just that in the coming days, particularly on inflation,

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