Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear offered a contrast between the agendas of President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris after the vice presidents struggled this week. color the clear differences between him and his master.
Beshear, a Harris stand-in who has been tapped as a possible running mate, explained that Biden’s big investments in manufacturing, infrastructure and green energy will pay dividends in the future, while Harris’ proposals include homebuyer assistance, child tax breaks and head start. like help small businesses will have more immediate impacts.
“President Biden’s plan was to build the economy of the future that’s happening right now — we’re building the two largest battery plants on planet Earth in Kentucky. We built the cleanest, greenest recycled paper plant the world has ever seen. All of those are over. His policies,” she told him. Beshear on ABC’s “This Week” Martha Raddatz on Biden’s efforts.
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“But his is right now. How do we help the American people who are struggling to pay the bills? And that’s the middle-class tax credits, that’s the affordable housing tax credit, that’s the child care tax credit. All the things that he’s working to get through the next six months and the next years. will help us, we will enter this very strong economy that is being built there.”
The comments came after Harris struggled in an interview this week to explain what he would do differently than Biden, a moment Republicans seized amid polls showing voters want change.
Asked on ABC’s “The View” if he would have done anything different than President Biden in the last four years, Harris replied that “there’s nothing that comes to mind” before pointing to a previous pledge to nominate him later. Republican for his cabinet.
Beshear also said he hoped a Harris administration would be able to move the country beyond its current state of fierce partisanship, arguing that the bitter division in the US right now helps explain why the election between him and former President Donald Trump is so close.
“Well, we have a lot of partisanship in America right now, and something that I hope after this election is that the vice president can take us beyond that, remind us that this doesn’t have to be us versus them,” Beshear said. “He can remember that we are all Americans first, and Democrats, Republicans and Independents second, third or fourth.”
Beshear, however, took time to blast Trump the falsehoods he has made Regarding current disaster relief efforts from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the federal government is offering only $750 per person in individual aid.
“In Kentucky, we had the worst tornado disaster in our history and the worst flooding disaster in our history, and I didn’t have to deal with the silences that Donald Trump is giving right now, and his lies can hurt people. means, $750 available lying that it’s all there is, that means that individual may not be able to claim more than $40,000 in individual support,” he said.
“If you really care about the people who are hurting more than yourself, you wouldn’t be politicizing this. You wouldn’t be releasing all this misinformation. As someone who has led natural disasters, it hurts.”
Beshear took aim at Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the GOP vice presidential nominee, again for not explicitly saying that Trump had lost the 2020 race in an interview with Raddatz earlier in the program.
“All you’re asking him to do is accept reality, and we deserve a vice president who believes in democracy and can say, ‘Yes, Donald Trump lost the last election, and now we’re running in this election.'” ” Beshear told Raddatzer.
