Keller: Trump, Harris Need To Talk Economy Policies To Voters

By Jon Keller, CBS Boston

August 14, 2024

BOSTON - Both major-party candidates for president are expected to provide some long-awaited detail about their economic policies this week. Vice President Kamala Harris plans a speech focusing on lowering costs for middle-class families and how she will fight corporate price-gouging, according to a campaign spokesperson. And Former President Donald Trump is due to address the economy as well.       And for the first time, there's polling showing Harris has wiped out Trump's longstanding lead in who voters trust to handle the economy.

"When you hear Donald Trump saying the market was gonna crash when Joe Biden was elected, certainly, he was only off by several thousand percent on that," joked Art Hogan, chief market strategist.

In any campaign, there's more rhetoric about the economy than truth. And no matter how hard Biden touted signs of economic growth, inflation-battered consumers have continued to give him failing grades.             

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