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the vice president added Kamala Harris will have one of the most important challenges of her political career. She will debate on ABC with the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump. But, contrary to what is assumed, her challenge will not be with him but with Joe Biden, as Carlos Lozada wrote in The New York TimesAs an experienced prosecutor, she will not have to fall into the attacks of her opponent, subjecting him to an interrogation from which it will not be easy for her to escape. In short, the main issue she will have to untie will be to distance herself from a policy that she has applauded and that has yielded good results, known as Bidenomics.
The fact is that opposition to Biden has spread the tale that Bidenomics It is a failure for the US economy. Republicans do not recognize that the main axes of this policy have been successful: reduction of inflation between 2022 and 2024 from 9 to 3 percent; incentives for salary increases in a large part of the country; tax and social security benefits, expansion of the health program and reduction in the cost of medicines; the most substantial infrastructure plan in 50 years that benefits the population and the productivity of the private sector; significant decrease in unemployment from more than 10 percent in 2020 to less than 4 percent.
The other problem for her will be to clarify the role she has played in the Biden administration in immigration policy. The president has had a hard time dealing with the effects of a phenomenon that affects a good part of the US. Following the tone of his Democratic predecessors, he has insisted that if a comprehensive, fair policy is not designed in accordance with the human principles derived from the Constitution, it will be impossible to solve this problem. Regardless of the fact that the causes must be studied and attacked at a global level, Harris pointed to one of the solutions when she met with the leaders of Central American countries to find a joint solution based on economic cooperation. In her debate with Trump, she must remind him that he prohibited Republican senators from signing a bipartisan agreement that aimed to solve the problem.
Kamala Harris will face a problem Sisyphus
. He will have to retrace part of his path with Biden, without denying that he was partly responsible for that journey, which, it must be stressed, was successful. His mission will be to explain and convince why it was the right thing to do and why the task must be completed.
