Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, ought to change her name to Swiper — the little fox who steals everything on Dora the Explorer — because she continues to rip off former President Donald Trump’s policy positions and claim them as her own. You’d think this is an awful idea because it essentially validates many of Trump’s positions as good ideas. Why would you want the copycat instead of the person who actually crafted the policy to be in charge of the country?
This time, the policy that Harris “swiped” has to do with steel. Ironic, isn’t it? She is “stealing” a policy to do with “steel.” You get it. You’re all smart folk.
According to the Daily Wire, Harris revealed she would be keeping U.S. steel beneath domestic ownership while making a campaign stop in the city of Pittsburgh on Monday.
“U.S. Steel is an historic American company, and it is vital for our nation to maintain strong American steel companies,” Harris explained during the event. “U.S. Steel should remain American-owned and American-operated.”
Back in January, former President Donald Trump said he would block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, if he were elected president again. Nippon has put forward a $15 billion proposal to acquire the American company.
“I would block it instantaneously. Absolutely,” Trump stated emphatically. “We saved the steel industry. Now, US Steel is being bought by Japan. So terrible.”
Earlier this year, President Joe Biden also expressed his opposition to the sale.
“U.S. Steel has been an iconic American steel company for more than a century, and it is vital for it to remain an American steel company that is domestically owned and operated,” Biden went on to say in March.
This is at least the third time Harris has copied a policy first put forward by her opponent this election cycle. The Democratic nominee blindsided Democrats last month when she adopted Trump’s viral “no tax on tips” proposal, announcing that she supported getting rid of taxes on service workers’ tips.
“It is my promise to everyone here when I am president, we will continue our fighting for working families of America including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,” the Democratic nominee stated during a rally in Las Vegas.
The former president unveiled his “no tax on tips” policy a few weeks earlier after a rally of his own in Sin City, which has a very large service and hospitality industry thanks to all of the tourist attractions located in the area. Fans of Trump have been pushing the policy by ingeniously scribbling “no tax on tips” on receipts when visiting restaurants and other establishments. Even Trump himself wrote the message on a receipt when he tipped $500 during a visit to a popular cheesesteak restaurant in the city of Philadelphia.
As soon as Trump’s presidential campaign found out that Harris started touting the policy, they accused her of stealing it. Clearly, that’s what she did. And the fact she’s done it multiply times proves that.
“Kamala Harris, whose ‘Honeymoon’ period is ENDING, and is starting to get hammered in the Polls, just copied my NO TAXES ON TIPS Policy,” Trump published in a post on Truth Social. “The difference is, she won’t do it, she just wants it for Political Purposes! This was a TRUMP idea – She has no ideas, she can only steal from me. Remember, Kamala has proposed the LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY – It won’t happen. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
The Harris campaign announced Friday that she supports a $6,000 child tax credit. That announcement came just days after Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Trump’s running mate, said he would support doubling the child tax credit to $5,000. “I’d love to see a child tax credit that’s $5,000 per child,” Vance said in an interview with CBS.
Before you know it, the only thing Harris will have on her policy page is a link that takes you to over to Trump’s.