Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance attacked Vice President Harris for plagiarizing former President Trump’s policies during an event in Michigan on Tuesday, one of several times the 2024 Republican presidential ticket has criticized its Democratic opponent for seemingly copying them.
“Kamala’s advisers are considering adopting all of Donald Trump‘s policies… I’m hearing that for her debate in a few weeks, she’ll be donning a navy suit, a long red tie and adopting the slogan Make America Great Again,” the Ohio Republican said during his remarks.
The comments came just weeks after a similar criticism from Trump during a rally in North Carolina, when the former president accused Harris of waiting for him to release an economic agenda.
“She’s waiting for me to announce it so she can copy it,” Trump said of Harris’ economic plans.
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Vice President Harris and former President Trump (KeynoteUSA Photos/File)
The comments come as Harris continues to be peppered with questions about the details of her policy positions and her unwillingness to be interviewed by the press.
While Harris has begun to roll out more policy proposals, such as providing $25,000 in down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, some of her ideas along the way have been remarkably similar to Trump’s.
NO TAX ON TIPS
During an August 11 rally in Nevada, Harris announced she would eliminate taxes on tipped wages.
“My promise to everyone here is that when I’m president we will continue to fight for working families, including by raising the minimum wage and eliminating tip taxes for service and hospitality workers,” Harris said during the event in Las Vegas.
But the promise came almost exactly two months after Trump promised the same thing at a June 9 event, also held in Las Vegas.
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“When I get into office, we’re not going to tax tips,” Trump said at the time. “We’re not going to do it, and we’re going to do it right away, first thing in the morning, because it’s been a bone of contention for years and years and years.”
Trump spent much of the following months promoting the proposal, a fact that was not lost on the former president when he heard Harris had announced the same thing two months later.
“This was TRUMP’s idea. She has no ideas, she can only steal from me,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, arguing that she took the job for “political purposes.”
Vice President Harris (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images/File)
INCREASE THE CHILD TAX CREDIT
During an Aug. 11 appearance on KeynoteUSA’s “Face the Nation,” Vance proposed increasing the Child Tax Credit to $5,000 per child from the current $2,000.
“I would love to see a child tax credit of $5,000 per child,” Vance said. “President Trump has long supported a child tax credit, and I think we want to see that apply to all American families.”
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Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential candidate, headlines a Trump campaign event in Michigan on Aug. 14, 2024. (KeynoteUSA/Paul Steinhauser)
Just five days later, on Aug. 17, Harris released an economic plan of her own, part of which called for providing a $6,000 tax credit to parents of newborns and bringing back a pandemic-era boost to the Child Tax Credit, a policy that allowed some taxpayers to qualify for a credit of up to $3,600 instead of the typical $2,000.
FLIP FLOPS?
Harris has also been accused of “flipping” on other policy positions, adopting positions more similar to Trump’s than she had previously held.
One major issue Harris has seemingly changed her position on is fracking, with her campaign announcing last month that the vice president did not support a ban on fracking. Oil extraction technique which enjoys broad support in swing states like Pennsylvania.
But that stance was a 180-degree turn from her comments as a primary candidate during a KeynoteUSA event in 2019, where Harris said “there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”
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“And start with what we can do from day one when it comes to public lands. And this is something I’ve taken on in California. I have experience working on this issue,” Harris said at the time.
Harris also appears to have repudiated her support for “Medicare for All” and semi-automatic rifle buyback programs, two issues she publicly promoted during her failed primary campaign and which the current campaign has said she no longer supports.
Harris has also faced accusations of softening her stance on a wall to protect the southern border, with critics pointing to her support for bipartisan border legislation that would have required unspent funds to be used to continue construction of the barrier.
Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/File)
“Trump’s border wall is required,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Axios as part of a briefing on Harris’ stance. “The bill sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration. This is where it will be built. This is how it should be built, the height, the type, everything during Trump’s construction.”
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But the Axios report noted that Lankford’s office estimated that roughly $650 million would be used for a wall instead of the $18 billion requested by Trump in 2018, while Harris’ campaign argued that the legislation did not include any new money for the construction of a physical barrier and only ensured the use of funds allocated during Trump’s term.
When reached for comment by KeynoteUSA Digital, a Harris campaign spokesperson pointed to the vice president’s history of advocating for an expanded Child Tax Credit, including the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan that expanded the credit to $3,600 for children under age 6 and $3,000 for children between ages 6 and 17.
“Unlike Donald Trump and JD Vance, Vice President Harris supports abortion rights instead of taking them away, cuts taxes on the middle class instead of raising them by nearly $4,000, and unites Americans instead of dividing them,” the spokesperson said. “Most importantly, she opposes Donald Trump and JD Vance’s dangerous Project 2025 agenda.”
Michael Lee is a staff writer for KeynoteUSA. Prior to joining KeynoteUSA, Michael worked for the Washington Examiner, Bongino.com, and Unbiased America. He has covered politics for more than eight years.
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