Trump says Kamala Harris hasn't announced any policies yet because she wants to 'copy' him as he uses Tic Tacs to lay out his plans for inflation By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor Published: 00:05, 15 August 2024 | Updated: 00:27, 15 August 2024 e-mail View comments Former President Donald Trump ridiculed Kamala Harris for seeking to 'copy' his campaign ideas, in a speech billed as an economy event where he brandished a box of tic tacs.
Trump is still whinging that Harris lifted one of his campaign talking points by declaring in Las Vegas that she will end taxes on tips for waiters and other tipped workers. In campaign that features Trump vowing to deport millions of undocumented migrants and Harris issuing vague promises about the future, Trump said he is holding back his own detailed proposals for fear they'll get copied. 'Kamala Harris won’t end the economic crisis.
She will only make it worse. And why hasn’t she done it? She talks about it. She’s doing a plan.
You know she’s going to announce it this week. Maybe she’s waiting for me to announce it so she can copy it,' he joked. Harris and President Joe Biden have repeatedly tried to connect Trump to the policy proposals of Project 2025, a group that employed a bevy of his former advisors.
But the Trump camp has bristled at suggestions that their policies are his own. Trump also used the speech to hammer Harris on inflation , although his blast came on a day when the Consumer Price Index has annual inf.