CV NEWSFEED // On Monday LOOPcast hosts Tom Pogasic and CatholicVote Vice-President Joshua Mercer were joined by CatholicVote Director of Government Affairs Tom McClusky and discussed Kamala Harris’ policy platform.
“Kamala Harris tests out a new strategy when campaigning, let’s say, specifically in Arizona and Nevada,” began Pogasic. “That strategy is basically flip-flop on the major issues.”
“Everything,” Mercer interjected.
Pogasic referenced Harris’ new claims that she would be the candidate to help fix immigration, even though she has been the vice president for the past four years.
“Everything,” confirmed Pogasic:
But mostly the biggest hammer issue is immigration, right? I mean she came out and said “We’re going to be tough on immigration, the border is bad, I’m going to fix it, and we’re going to shut down all the illegal immigration going on here.” And it seems like it’s a test.
Mercer said Harris has been promising to be “tough” on the border issue and on inflation, but on top of that, “the cherry on top of the ice cream,” is her new position of “no taxes on tips.”
“She announces this in Nevada, where you know you have a massive service industry,” Mercer pointed out, laughing. “Absolute total pandering.”
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“I’m surprised she didn’t have a press conference at Mar-a-Lago,” McClusky quipped.
Pogasic went on to explain how Trump had come up with the policy of no taxes on tips, which Harris has seemingly adopted as her own.
“Not only do they steal our elections, they steal our punchlines, this is crazy,” Mercer joked.
“That was big news, Trump was like ‘We’re not taxing tips,’” Pogasic explained, and Harris “just shamelessly” said the same.
The conversation then pivoted towards exploring Trump’s strategy of winning votes in the service industry.
“Targeted tax cuts are a thing in both parties,” said McClusky. “Everything from tackleboxes to Christmas trees they’ve targeted, but none so blatantly, or brilliantly electionwise as that of going after the workers that normally you wouldn’t think would vote Republican.”
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