‘Striking to Hear’: Fox’s Baier Says Some of Harris’s Populist Economics Are Taken Straight From Trump
Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier weighed in on Kamala Harris rolling out her economic agenda in a long-awaited speech on Friday and noted that Harris seems to be taking some policy tips from Donald Trump.
Anchor Gillian Turner began, “It was a progressive pitch, and what we saw today from the vice president is not just a stark policy contrast with the plans laid out by former President Trump, but a stark vision of a wildly different economic reality and just reality in general. She took care to point out today that she sees the supply chain issues that started plaguing this country during Covid is largely, if not completely, fixed. She said it’s all better now. Two days ago, we heard the former president talk about how he sees them as being worse than ever.”
“Yeah, there’s a disconnect there, too. Also, when she talks about former President Trump’s plans to raise taxes, that’s not what he’s talking about. He’s talking about tariffs on, other countries, and their products coming in here so that the U.S. succeeds. I do need to give the vice president credit and the administration credit, for the negotiation on on pharma and drug prices,” Baier said, adding:
They have had success on big, specific medications and bringing those prices down in negotiations that you heard from President Biden just yesterday. She tapped into that as well. But again, there is this dance of getting away from Bidenomics, creating her own vision and yet accepting some of the positives of that she wants to claim as the strongest economy in the world. So I think we’re going to see a lot of this in Chicago next week.
Baier is then asked to weigh in on whether or not Harris’s proposed ban on “price gouging” at the grocery store will be seen as “price controls” by key groups – like farmers.
“That’s right. And it’s just not something that a lot of people we’re talking about economists here, but really people on the street, it hasn’t worked. President Nixon tried it. I remember Don Rumsfeld, former defense secretary at that time in the Nixon administration that was running price controls and just said it didn’t work,” Baier said, adding:
Other countries have tried it. It didn’t work. So how it’s implemented. Again, to Jason Furman’s point, you got to go through Congress and it’s just might not be realistic. The other thing is striking to hear the vice president talk about cutting red tape and cutting regulations. I mean, that, again, is taking from former President Trump’s speech, and it’s tough to imagine that the person in 2019 who wanted to ban fracking and ban plastic straws is now going to be the champion of cutting red tape and cutting regulations. But maybe that transition is happening. We’ll see.
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