Kamala Harris doesn’t like to talk about inflation for good reason.
As costs continue to rise well above the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target in the final year of the Biden-Harris presidency, Americans are already headed to the polls this fall with the economic carnage of the incumbent administration fresh in mind. Monday’s stock market crash offered voters the reminder they didn’t need, with former President Donald Trump quick to label the election-year stress test “Kamala Crash.” Considering the vice president also cast the tie-breaking vote on legislation to drive rising prices, Trump might also call sustained inflation “Kamalaflation,” although apparently they tried.
For Harris, inflation and the border, the nation’s two top issues this election, have made the ticket vulnerable to a blow out at the ballot box unless Democrats can overcome a pending red wave with enough ballot harvesting. The Biden administration’s “Border Czar” certainly can’t run on a decrepit border, and she’s clearly uncomfortable on the economy.
Shortly after capturing her party’s nomination under Biden’s fallout last month, the Associated Press reported that Harris “began to craft her own narrative around the economy by putting an emphasis on ending child poverty, promoting labor unions, reducing the costs of health and child care and protecting ‘dignity’ in retirement.”
But “not once in speeches in Wisconsin, Indiana or Texas did she mention the word ‘inflation’ — the overwhelming economic challenge that has dogged Biden’s administration and forced him in remarks to consistently acknowledge voters’ pain as they cope
