Kamala Harris expected to blame Democrats and Republicans for failed economic policy at state party dinner

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to call for the “revival of the American dream” and blame Democrats as well as Republicans for failed economic policies in a speech Saturday night, according to excerpts shared with NBC News.“Democrats never bought into trickle-down [economics].

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to call for the “revival of the American dream” and blame Democrats as well as Republicans for failed economic policies in a speech Saturday night, according to excerpts shared with NBC News.

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“Democrats never bought into trickle-down [economics]. That was Ronald Reagan’s doing. But plenty of Democrats did buy into the flawed assumptions behind it,“ Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024, plans to say at the Arkansas Democratic Party’s annual Fisher Shackelford Dinner.

Democrats, Harris will argue, believed “that, if we just trusted the wisdom of the market, working people would eventually get taken care of. That growth at the top would take care of everyone else. And so even when people did everything right — worked hard days and into the night, the economic system essentially stopped delivering for them.”