What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
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Summary
We expect to see the Harris campaign come out with some official policy proposals in the coming weeks and months. But for now, all we've got are clues, little breadcrumbs that she has dropped throughout her career that might lead us to a rough idea of what economic policies she might support.
Today on the show, we're going to visit three key moments from Harris' political career that might give us an idea of how her economic agenda might look. First, the 2019 presidential primary debates, where she laid out her own economic policies. Next, a vote in her Senate years that shows where she might fall on future trade agreements. And finally, a fight with some of the country's biggest banks from her very first year as Attorney General of California.
This episode was hosted by Keith Romer and Nick Fountain. It was produced by Emma Peaslee, edited by Jess Jiang with help from Meg Cramer, and fact checked by Sierra Juarez and Sofia Shchukina. Engineering by Kwesi Lee. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.
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| 0:20.0 | Okay, looks like it's Kamala Harris, presidential candidate. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, like the rest of the country, we are trying to very quickly make sense of what it means now that Kamala Harris is almost |
| 0:33.9 | certainly going to be the Democratic nominee for president, especially what it |
| 0:37.9 | means in economic terms. For the past four years it's been really hard to figure out what Harris's strongly held beliefs were, |
| 0:45.7 | because, well, her publicly facing beliefs, they were her bosses. |
| 0:50.0 | That's the whole point of being vice president. |
| 0:52.3 | You serve at the pleasure of the president. |
| 0:54.6 | Your official policy positions are by and large, replaced by theirs. |
| 0:59.1 | But it's not like Kamala Harris spent her entire career in the Vice Presidential Policy vacuum. |
| 1:05.0 | No, before she was VP, she was a presidential candidate herself. |
| 1:09.0 | Before that, a senator, before that, Attorney General of California, before that, that, Attorney General of California, |
| 1:13.0 | before that an economics major and daughter of an economics professor. |
| 1:18.0 | And in at least some of those phases of her life, |
| 1:21.0 | she took real stances on issues that are wonky enough for |
| 1:24.6 | your favorite neighborhood economic show to want to dig into. |
| 1:28.6 | Hello and welcome to Play-Din Money, I'm Nick Fountain and I'm Keith Romer. We're in this unprecedented moment of political |
| 1:36.9 | uncertainty where the president of the United States dropped out of the |
| 1:40.9 | presidential race three and a half months before an election and now |
| 1:44.6 | we all have to get our heads around this new candidate and try to figure out how much |
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