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Kamala Harris carries the torch, and the burden, of Bidenomics

She aims to build on the president’s social-care agenda while escaping blame for inflation

Vice President Kamala Harris embraces President Joe Biden after a speech in Raleigh, N.C., March 26th 2024
Photograph: AP
|Washington, DC

Pinpointing differences in the economic views of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden is no easy task: the two have promoted the same ideas and touted the same accomplishments for the past three and a half years. But give this to Ms Harris: she seems capable of wrapping their wide set of policies, from semiconductor subsidies to student-debt cancellation, in more attractive packaging than her boss did. Mr Biden called it his “build back better” agenda, a mouthful that never caught on. In recent speeches on economics the backdrop behind Ms Harris has displayed a more elegant phrase: “freedom to thrive”.

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