Marco Bello, Jeenah Moon via Reuters
It sounds oxymoronic, but Kamala Harris plans to sell herself as a pragmatic capitalist to business leaders in Pittsburgh on Wednesday in a speech designed to crush Donald Trump on the economy and rob him of undecided middle-class voters.
The Democratic presidential candidate will tout her middle-class roots as an asset in managing the economy when she appears before the Economic Club of Pittsburgh, according to a senior campaign official. And she’ll present herself as a pragmatist whose economic philosophy will not be “bound by ideology,” the official said.
And in the birthplace of steelmaking and labor unions, Harris plans to slam Trump as a shill for billionaires and a villain of everyday workers and entrepreneurs. “For Donald Trump, our economy works best if it works for those who own the big skyscrapers. Not those who build them. Not those who wire them. Not those who mop the floors,” Harris plans to say in a preview shared by her campaign.
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