Josh Shapiro Repeatedly Dodges NBC’s Kristen Welker on Laying Out ‘Policy Difference’ Between Harris and Biden: ‘Can You Name One?’
Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro dodged NBC’s Kristen Welker regarding how Vice President Kamala Harris would differ on policy from President Joe Biden on Sunday morning.
Shapiro instead said that Harris would offer voters a different vision than former President Donald Trump on key issues.
The governor joined Welker on Sunday’s Meet the Press where the host asked him to watch a clip of Harris telling NBC’s Peter Alexander she could not think of a policy position she would break from Biden on. Welker asked Shapiro multiple times to strike a contrast between Biden and Harris in the following exchange:
WELKER: Governor, given how unpopular polls show how unpopular President Biden is, has Vice President Harris done enough to distance herself from President Biden?
SHAPIRO: Kamala Harris wants to cut taxes for small businesses, and Donald Trump and his economic policies would raise costs for middle-class families. I think Kamala Harris has a strong and confident approach to foreign policy to try and calm tensions overseas. Donald Trump just wants to throw a grenade in everything and create more chaos and more – more suffering across the globe. I think you have a clear contrast on freedom between those two candidates. Kamala Harris wants to restore a road. Donald Trump brags about how he’s ripped away the freedom from millions of women across this country. So listen, I think you have a clear contrast between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and voters are going to the polls, literally right now, all across America, focusing on that choice. Not a choice between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
WELKER: I understand what you’re saying, governor, but polls do show that more Americans feel as though President Biden’s policies have hurt them rather than helped them. So can you name one key policy difference between Vice President Harris and President Biden? How would her administration look different?
SHAPIRO: You know, I’ve been really encouraged by the amount of energy that Vice President Harris has put into focusing on how she will cut taxes for small businesses. The focus on child care care and extension. I’ve seen that work to ease the burden on families and i think the focus on those kinds of things are particularly important and those are the kinds of things that Kamala Harris has brought specifically to this race.
WELKER: Those aren’t necessarily differences, though. They’re an expansion or a tweak to some extent to what’s been done. Can you name one policy difference?
SHAPIRO: Listen. Again, the contrast I am focused on, Kristen, is between her and Donald Trump, and on that, I think it is clearly different. I don’t want to go back to Donald Trump when he was in charge of this country. Remember the record. I know there are still people that have brain fog and they don’t remember what it was like. Under Donald Trump, you had more chaos, and you had less jobs, and you had a whole lot less freedom. I don’t think we want to go back to a time of chaos. I want a stable, strong leader, and that’s Kamala Harris.
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