The Bulwark
The vice president will have to play defense as well as offense when she faces off against Donald Trump. Her main job is to reach those undecided voters who need to learn more about her before lending their support. But she also needs to deflect the incoming that Trump will surely provide. A night where she accomplishes these three tasks will be a win.
- Explain her evolution.
- Hit the kitchen-table pain points.
Trumps crackpot ideas for how to “fix” the economy—deporting millions of low-paid migrant workers, slapping monster tariffs on huge swaths of U.S. imports—remain forever in the shadows. But these ideas, if implemented, would jack up prices on consumer goods in America tremendously.Harris should beat Trump about the head and neck with this, and do so at length. And she should spotlight her own policies aimed at reining in prices—ideally leaning less into the silly grocery-store price-gouging lines and more into her promising pledge to juice new housing construction.
- Win on democracy
