Harris Has Detailed Policy Plans. Where Are Trump’s?
The vice president is being held to a different and unmeetable standard, as women often are.
How good is good enough?
Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty Images North AmericaThe first couple of responses Vice President Kamala Harris gave in her stellar debate performance against former President Donald Trump had a clear purpose: to outline specific policy ambitions and dispatch with the criticism that she has no plans. Asked by ABC moderator David Muir if Americans were better off now than they were four years ago, Harris ticked off her policy proposals, including a child tax credit ($6,000) and a small business tax deduction ($50,000). She later mentioned her proposal for assistance for first-time homebuyers ($25,000) as well as her approaches to immigration (the bipartisan bill Trump tanked) and reproductive rights (codifying Roe v. Wade). At times, Harris sounded like Senator Elizabeth Warren with her “I have a plan” refrain. This listing of policies is a kind of “women’s work” that men don’t have to do to the same extent.
Trump, who doesn’t deal in specific numbers or details or the truth, leaned heavily on tariffs, which he apparently thinks will pay for child care.