Biden And Harris Both Cite The Economy As A Success — But Voters Believe Harris More
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The same economic statistics, essentially the same economic message — the only difference is that Vice President Kamala Harris is having considerably better success selling them to Americans as she runs for president than did her boss and the sitting president, Joe Biden. “Packaged differently and different messenger,” said Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, who has campaigned on behalf of both Biden and Harris in the past several months. “And she just sounds more relatable on the struggles of families.” Sarah Longwell, a Republican political consultant and Trump critic who has been conducting focus groups of Trump and Biden voters for years, said part of the difference is that Harris is simply better at campaigning. So she doesn’t own the bad stuff in the way Biden does.” Biden, Harris and anyone else defending the state of the economy today, for that matter, have good facts on their side. “We’ve gone from economic crisis to the strongest economy in the world, literally,” he said from an auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across an alley from the West Wing.