Swamp Notes: Harris and Trump pitch their economic visions
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 28 September 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Voters consistently tell pollsters that economic issues are their top electoral concern. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have spent the past few weeks honing their economic messages — and they couldn’t be more different. The FT’s US managing editor, Peter Spiegel, and Washington bureau chief, James Politi, join to explore how each candidates’ plan would impact the country.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Trumponomics: the radical plan that would reshape America’s economy
Kamala Harris sets out pro-business economic philosophy in swing-state speech
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:08.0 | at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | UK. |
| 0:12.0 | Every American political strategist knows if there's one thing voters care about above all else, it's the economy. |
| 0:20.0 | And this week, with less than 40 days until election day, |
| 0:23.6 | the candidates crisscrossed the country to talk about it. |
| 0:26.6 | My vision for the economy, I call it an opportunity economy. |
| 0:29.7 | On November 5th, we will save our economy. |
| 0:37.0 | This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the F.T. News Briefing, where we talk about all of the things happening in the |
| 0:43.6 | 2024 US presidential election. I'm Sonia Hudson and this week we're asking |
| 0:49.3 | what could Harris and Trump's economic plans mean for the country? |
| 0:53.4 | Here with me to discuss is James Pallidi. |
| 0:56.6 | He's the F.T.'s Washington Bureau Chief. |
| 0:58.8 | Hi James. |
| 0:59.7 | Hi, Sonia. |
| 1:00.6 | And we've also got Peter Spiegel, the F.T's U.S. Managing editor. |
| 1:03.8 | Hi Peter. |
| 1:04.8 | Thanks for having me, Sonia. |
| 1:06.1 | Glad to have you. |
| 1:07.0 | So I want to start with Kamala Harris and her economic plans. |
| 1:11.3 | She gave a big speech and released an economic policy document this |
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