Kamala Harris
Eric Boehm | 7.23.2024 12:20 PM
What's an unpopular politician with low charisma and an unflattering record to do when she's suddenly thrust into the spotlight of a presidential campaign?
Promise to make it rain, of course!
Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off her substitute presidential campaign on Monday by promising to pass two policies that were dropped from President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act when members of Congress balked at the price tag: paid family leave and government-funded child care.
"We believe in a future…where every person has access to paid family leave and affordable child care," Harris said in an address to campaign staff in Delaware on Monday, as she officially took the reins of what had been Biden's reelection effort. The rest of Harris' message was standard-issue fare from the Biden agenda—including promises to boost the middle class, protect seniors, and ensure Americans have affordable health care.
But the nods to........