A decidedly centrist agenda , in which there are still unclear aspects, so France Press summarizes in an analytical material the pre-election program of the vice president of the USA Kamala Harris, who is a candidate of the Democratic Party for president.
The agency also presents some of its main highlights just hours before Harris' debate with her opponent Donald Trump from the Republican Party.
The Democrat presents herself as a middle-of-the-road candidate and wants to create an opportunity economy. She promises, if elected, tax credits for the birth of children, help to access housing and support for the creation of businesses. Harris is also promising an offensive against the companies' abusive pricing practices, but she has not yet defined what that offensive will look like.
Kamala Harris also picks up on some of Joe Biden's promises about taxing the wealthiest, but her commitments are more moderate and she wants a 28 percent long-term capital gains tax on households earning over one million dollars a year. Biden predicted the tax would be 39.6 percent.
In the field of environment, Kamala Harris has made a U-turn in some positions. It has not yet presented its environmental program in detail. At the Democratic convention in Chicago in August, she only mentioned the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water and live free of the pollution that is fueling the climate crisis. She assured that she would not ban fracking, a method of extracting hydrocarbons criticized by environmentalists. However, Harris has opposed fracking in the past.
According to the site "Axios" Harris has also done a 180-degree turn on the ban on plastic straws. She supported this idea in the past, but no longer looks favorably on it.
The vice president has in the past supported the big energy transition plan presented by Joe Biden and contained in the Reduce Inflation Act.
Migration is one of the most sensitive issues of the election campaign. In this regard, Kamala Harris said that her policy will be firm and added that there must be consequences for people who enter the US territory illegally.
Harris supported the plan for a clear hardening of migration policy presented by Biden, which specifically envisages investment in physical barriers on the border with Mexico. That is, this is the famous wall that Trump wanted and that Harris has strongly criticized in the past. The bill, which envisaged limiting the right to asylum in the US, never saw the light of day due to a lack of consensus in Congress.
On the subject of the right to abortion, however, Harris's position is beyond doubt. She spearheaded the Democratic mobilization after the US Supreme Court, which was shaped by Republican Trump during his time as president, ended the constitutional guarantee of abortion rights. After this decision, many southern American states banned or severely restricted abortion. Democrats are calling to restore the provisions of the guarantee struck down by the Supreme Court. They want these provisions to be written into a federal law that would apply to all states.
Harris also promised that if elected president, she would stand firm with Ukraine and NATO allies who do not have friendly relations with dictators.
In an interview with CNN on August 29, Harris reiterated his support for Israel's right to defend itself and responded with a "no" when asked whether, if elected president, she would cut off arms supplies to that country while the war in Gaza continues. In the same interview, however, Harris stated that too many innocent Palestinians had been killed.