Vice President Kamala Harris has enjoyed an avalanche of media praise since becoming the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee but that goodwill has crashed.
The vice president rolled out a Soviet-style anti-price gouging plan last week that had even some of her most ardent media supporters attacking her.
The Washington Post Editorial Board shredded the Harris plan in an opinion piece published right after the announcement.
“Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech Friday was an opportunity to get specific with voters about how a Harris presidency would manage an economy that many feel is not working well for them,” the board said on Friday. “Unfortunately, instead of delivering a substantial plan, she squandered the moment on populist gimmicks.”
“One way to handle it might be to level with voters, telling them that inflation spiked in 2021 mainly because the pandemic snarled supply chains, and that the Federal Reserve’s policies, which the Biden-Harris administration supported, are working to slow it,” the editorial board said. “The vice president instead opted for a less forthright route: Blaming big business.”
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And CNN economics reporter Elisabeth Buchwald was just as vicious in her assessment.
“Food prices have surged by more than 20% under the Biden-Harris administration, leaving many voters eager to stretch their dollars