By Jeff Mason
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris informed supporters in Nevada on Saturday she supported eliminating taxes on ideas, taking an identical place to her rival Donald Trump in an effort to win over service staff, an vital constituency within the state.
Harris and her Democratic operating mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, wrapped up a multi-day tour of battleground states on Saturday with their cease in Nevada, a western state that might play a pivotal function within the Nov. 5 presidential election.
“It is my promise to everyone here when I am president we will continue to fight for working families, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,” Harris mentioned.
Harris mentioned she would work to drive down shopper costs, vowing to “take on big corporations that engage in illegal price-gouging” – company landlords that unfairly elevate rents on working households – and large pharmaceutical firms to decrease drug costs.
Trump informed a rally in Las Vegas in June that he would search to finish taxation of revenue from ideas.
Harris, who formally grew to become the Democratic Social gathering’s presidential nominee this week, has been campaigning with Walz in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona, all states that historically swing between supporting Republicans and Democrats in presidential elections.
To develop into president, a candidate needn’t win the nationwide common vote however should win 270 electoral votes. Every state has a lot of electoral votes primarily based on its inhabitants, making the swing states particularly vital.
She is going to journey to San Francisco in her house state of California on Sunday, the place she is because of attend a fundraiser with former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Almost 700 individuals are anticipated on the occasion, which is anticipated to boost greater than $12 million, a marketing campaign official mentioned.
Harris and Walz, whose choice she introduced in Pennsylvania – one other swing state – on Tuesday, are in search of to take care of and construct on the momentum that she has generated since President Joe Biden stepped apart because the occasion’s standard-bearer final month.
Harris was main Trump, the Republican former president, by 4 proportion factors every in separate polls carried out in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, one other swing state, by the New York Instances and Siena School, a marked distinction from polls taken earlier than Biden give up the presidential race.
The Trump marketing campaign launched a memo from its chief pollster, Tony Fabrizio, pushing again in opposition to the outcomes. “Once again, we see a series of public surveys released with the clear intent and purpose of depressing support for President Trump,” Fabrizio mentioned.
Nationally, Harris was forward of Trump by 5 proportion factors, 42% to 37%, in an Ipsos ballot printed on Thursday, wider her lead from a July 22-23 Reuters/Ipsos survey, which discovered her up 37% to 34%.
Harris has raised a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} and held rallies with 1000’s of supporters since changing into the Democratic candidate, repeatedly eclipsing the smaller occasions that Biden held and drawing ire from Trump, to whom crowd dimension has all the time been an vital barometer of political energy.
The Harris marketing campaign mentioned greater than 12,000 individuals have been within the area in Las Vegas on Saturday and police had turned away roughly 4,000 extra as a result of individuals in line have been changing into in poor health as temperatures reached within the Nevada warmth, the place temperatures reached 109 levels Fahrenheit (40 levels Celsius) on Saturday.
Harris has spent the week drawing contrasts with Trump. On Saturday, earlier than leaving Arizona, she mentioned she disagreed strongly with the previous president concerning the Federal Reserve.
She mentioned she wouldn’t intervene with the unbiased Fed if elected president, in sharp distinction to Trump, who on Thursday mentioned presidents ought to have a say over selections made by the central financial institution.
