Kamala Can’t Stop Plagiarizing Trump On The Campaign Trail

Vice President Kamala Harris has taken a number of former President Donald Trump’s policy positions on the campaign trail in an apparent effort to distract from her far-left record.

Though Harris’ campaign website does not include any policy positions, the presumptive Democratic nominee has begun echoing her opponent in speeches and ads.

On Saturday, Harris told a crowd in Las Vegas that if elected she would abolish a tax on tips for service and hospitality workers, a policy Trump first proposed in June. Harris even used the tagline “no tax on tips,” which Trump has been repeating for months. Harris was in Las Vegas to receive the endorsement of the Nevada Culinary Union, which had previously endorsed Trump’s “no tax on tips” proposal.

More than a year before Harris ripped off Trump’s policy, the Biden-Harris administration launched a new initiative through the IRS and Treasury Department to more rigorously enforce taxes on tips.

It’s not the only position Harris has taken directly from Trump. Harris cast herself as a border hawk at a Glendale, Arizona rally last week, around the time her campaign launched an advertisement claiming Harris endorses policies on immigration and border security Trump first championed in 2016.

“Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents,” the ad says. “Kamala Harris supports spending more money to stop human traffickers.”

Trump ran on hiring more Border Patrol agents in 2016 and took action as president to halt human trafficking on the southern border. His Department of Homeland Security created the Center for Countering Human Trafficking. The Trump administration released the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking in October 2020, and approved over $35 million in funding for the Department of Justice to provide safe housing for victims of human trafficking.

Harris’ record offers a stark contrast from her new border hawk rhetoric. Harris has suggested abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and as the Biden administration’s “border czar,” she oversaw 10 million border crossings, including an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrant “got-aways.” The Biden-Harris administration also ended DNA testing at the border, which law enforcement previously used to prevent unaccompanied minor immigrants from being sex trafficked.

Harris is also parroting Trump on inflation, one of voters’ top concerns.

“Prices are still too high — you know it and I know it,” Harris  said at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia before adding, “On day one, I will take on price-gouging and bring down costs.”

“When I am president it will be a day one priority to fight to bring down prices,” Harris pledged at a rally in Wisconsin.

The comments came after months of Trump made inflation a key issue of his campaign. One of the items in Trump’s Agenda 47 platform is “End inflation and make America affordable again.” Trump pledged to end the “inflation nightmare” during his speech at the Republican National Convention.