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Former President Trump took a swing at Vice President Harris’s just lately debuted financial plan, saying the Democratic presidential nominee had gone “full communist.”
“In her speech yesterday, Kamala went full communist. You heard that? She went full communist,” Trump informed supporters throughout a spirited swing-state rally Saturday at Mohegan Solar Area at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania.
Calling her “Comrade Kamala,” the Republican presidential nominee blasted her “socialist value controls.”
“Comrade Kamala introduced that she needs to institute socialist value controls. You noticed that? By no means labored earlier than,” he stated. “That is the [President Nicolás] Maduro plan in Venezuela [of government price controls], the Maduro plan of the outdated Soviet Union.
“They tried it there,” he stated. “And the way did the Soviet Union end up?”
TRUMP ACCUSES HARRIS OF ‘SOVIET STYLE’ POLICIES FOLLOWING PRICE CONTROL PROPOSAL
Former President Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, pumps his fist after talking throughout a marketing campaign rally at Mohegan Solar Area at Casey Plaza Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024, in Wilkes Barre, Pa. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures)
Trump stated Harris’ plan for federal value controls, which her marketing campaign packaged as an answer to “value gouging,” “extreme costs” and “extreme company earnings,” will result in rationing and skyrocketing costs.
TRUMP ACCUSES HARRIS OF ‘SOVIET STYLE’ POLICIES FOLLOWING PRICE CONTROL PROPOSAL
“It’ll trigger rationing, starvation and skyrocketing costs,” Trump stated. “Identical to [the Biden-Harris administration’s] Inflation Discount Act, which is likely one of the nice scams of all time. Inflation has been so unhealthy, it is gone up way more than 50%. They are saying 30%, 40% — many extra persons are being devastated.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris wave to supporters throughout a marketing campaign rally final week in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Pictures)
On Wednesday, Harris introduced that, as president, she would institute a federal price-fixing plan “on meals and groceries” in an try and cease “massive companies” from making the most of customers.
Harris has framed her financial highway map, dubbed “Kamalanomics” by social media pundits, as an “alternative economic system” plan. Her value management plan consists of expanded down fee help for first-time homebuyers and a $6,000 youngster tax credit score for first-time mother and father.
Former President Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally at Mohegan Solar Area in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Saturday. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures)
Trump stated Harris’ financial coverage is not going to work, saying that related value fixing has been tried — unsuccessfully — by different nations all through historical past.
“The issues that she stated yesterday do not work. They’ve by no means labored,” he stated. “They have been utilized by many nations, and in each single occasion, it ruined these nations.”
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He stated Harris is promising “issues she will’t ship.”
“It is a communist system. … She’s promising handy out issues she will’t ship. She’ll by no means get them accepted,” he stated. “Identical to when she and Crooked Joe tried to provide away scholar debt. How did that work out? Not too good.”
Vice President Harris unveiled her financial plan Friday in North Carolina. (Peter Zay/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)
Trump turned his consideration to younger voters who seemed favorably at Biden’s promise to eradicate scholar debt, saying a communist takeover could sound good politically however is “very harmful.”
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“The scholars are saying, ‘I really like him due to scholar debt,’ however he obtained rejected,” Trump stated. “Her plan may be very harmful as a result of it could sound good politically, and that is the issue. … That is Marxist, that is fascist.”
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