Harris’s record is ‘leaving working families behind’: Byron Donalds

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) dismissed decreasing inflation potentially helping Vice President Kamala Harris’s chances in the 2024 election, arguing she was involved with inflation rising to begin with.

Annual inflation fell to 2.9% in July, making it the lowest inflation has been since March 2021. Donalds, however, did not think this could help Harris in the presidential election, stating that she was the tiebreaking vote on both the American Rescue Plan in 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S. Senate.

“All that did was create massive government spending, which created massive inflation on the backs of the American people,” Donalds said on CNN. “Overall, prices are up well over 20%, especially when you start getting into food and other areas like that. So Kamala Harris’s record has been one of leaving working families behind. When Donald Trump was president, we didn‘t have a massive inflation. Our economy was growing massively at the same time working families were getting ahead, middle-income families getting ahead, everybody was thriving.”

Donalds contended that Harris was “sitting there shotgun” alongside President Joe Biden in their oversight of the United States economy for years now. As such, he claimed the candidate who can bring about economic change is “without question” former President Donald Trump.

When asked if Trump’s age could be a detriment to winning support from voters, Donalds argued that Harris is “nowhere to be seen” from the public. This prompted a disagreement between him and the CNN interviewer, who asked he was trying to indicate that her age could become an issue when she decides to lay out her policies to the press.

“No, it’s not about her age; it’s about her ability and her competency to lead our country going forward,” Donalds said. “What‘s going to be her economic agenda? Is that going to be different from Joe Biden? I don‘t think so because Susan Rice is on the record now saying that Kamala Harris was integral in the Joe Biden Kamala Harris agenda.”

A recent poll conducted by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan showed voters trust Harris over Trump by 1 percentage point to handle the economy. Trump was previously leading Biden by 6 percentage points on this issue,

The poll’s results are within its margin of error at plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, with the data surveying 1,001 registered voters from Aug. 1-5.