Dana Bash: ‘When You Listen to Kamala Harris, You Could Almost Start a Drinking Game’

BASH: “When you listen to Kamala Harris on what she will do, you can almost start a drinking game every time she says small businesses. Let me give you an example.”
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Harris: “Part of my plan under my economic opportunity plan going forward is that right now, startup entrepreneurs, small businesses only get a tax deduction of $5,000. Nobody can start a small business with $5,000. So I’m expanding that to $50,000. Understanding, again, that when people have the opportunity to have the resources to get started, they’re going to put the good ideas, they’re going to put the hard work into it.”
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BASH: “Describe the politics of that.”
WEIGEL: “When she says that, she also talks about being a middle class kid. That’s also the front of her answers. If you look at the interviews they’ve been doing in local media, and they’ve opened up a bit more since the debate, the first question is often, what are you going to do to lower prices? Which is a very hard question for an incumbent party to answer. And it has implications that are very Trumpian. It is — Trump says he’s going to do mass deportation. That’ll decrease demand. Trump says he’ll explore more energy. That’ll decrease energy costs. Democrats can point to the fact that inflation is actually, it was bad two years ago. It’s not now. What people want to hear is how do you make the prices go down? So everything she says is something realistic that could survive a fact check that answers a very hard question. There is not a plan to say — to say that we’re going to lower the cost of your grocery bill to what it was in 2019. There was a pandemic. There was money — money — money supply inflation. You can’t hit the button that makes that go away. But Trump has an answer that gets them through these questions. And Harris, I think with a different set of incentives and a different relationship to something she can back up in a policy paper, she doesn’t have an answer. So she goes to a larger, well, imagine a future where there are more businesses and this starts to ameliorate.”