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CNN host Bash says you could “start a drinking game” every time Harris uses the same arguments.

CNN host Bash says you could “start a drinking game” every time Harris uses the same arguments.

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CNN's Dana Bash joked that you could play “a drinking game” every time Vice President Kamala Harris keeps coming back to her same old themes about the economy.

“If you listen to Kamala Harris and talk about what she's going to do, every time she says 'small businesses,' you could almost start a drinking game,” Bash told a CNN panel on Wednesday.

Bash played a clip of Harris speaking about her economic plan to the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Philadelphia on Tuesday. In it, Harris reiterated her proposal to increase the tax credit for new small business owners from $5,000 to $50,000.

“She also talks about being a middle-class child. That's the beginning of her answers too,” Semafor reporter David Weigel told Bash, as another example of her repetitive talking points.

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Kamala Harris

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) leadership conference in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Weigel said Harris was relying on her rhetoric because she had “no answer” to voters' most pressing concerns about prices.

“If you look at the interviews they've been doing in the local media, and since the debate they've become a little more candid, the first question is often, 'What are you going to do to bring prices down?' That's a very difficult question for an incumbent party to answer. And it has implications that are very Trumpian,” he continued. “They are: Trump says he's going to do mass deportations, that will reduce demand. Trump says he's going to research more energy, that will reduce energy costs.”

“Democrats can point to the fact that inflation is actually — two years ago it was bad. Now it's not,” Weigel said. “People want to hear how to bring prices down. So everything she says is realistic and could pass a fact check that answers a very difficult question.”

“There's no plan that says we're going to bring the cost of your grocery bill down to 2019 levels. There was a pandemic. There was monetary inflation. You can't just push a button and make all of that go away. But Trump has an answer that helps them answer those questions. And Harris, I think, with a different set of incentives and a different relationship to something that she can back up in a policy paper, doesn't have an answer. So she's moving on to a bigger issue, so imagine a future where there are more businesses and things start to get better,” he continued.

Hillary Clinton says it is a ‘double standard’ to ask Harris about her policies

Trump and Harris divided side by side

Vice President Kamala Harris is eight percentage points ahead of former President Trump among likely voters in Virginia, according to a new ABC News poll ahead of Tuesday's presidential debate. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images.)

In her first solo television interview since being nominated as the Democratic candidate, Harris answered at length when asked what “concrete” plans she had to lower prices for Americans, and spoke about her “middle-class” upbringing.

She concluded her answer by explaining her plan to expand the tax credit for new small business owners.

Harris has proposed Increase in the corporate tax rate from currently 21% to 28%.

Your campaign too He reportedly told Marc Goldwein, Vice Chairman of the Committee for a Responsible Budget that it supports all of President Biden's proposed tax increases on top earners for fiscal year 2025.

During a speech on Wednesday at the 47th annual Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Leadership Conference in In Washington, DC, Harris offered few concrete details about the policies she wants to implement as president.

Biden and Harris watch the Independence Day fireworks

U.S. President Joe Biden (from left), Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on the Truman Balcony of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, July 4, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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At one point, Harris talked about providing families with the resources they need to “raise their children well,” but she did not say what those resources would be or how they would be provided.

“I grew up knowing that the children of the community the children of the community, and we should all have a vested interest in ensuring that children can grow up with the resources they need to reach their God-given potential,” the vice president said.

Harris also appeared to undermine her own proposal to introduce a federal corporate price-fixing plan by telling the crowd that, in fact, “very few” companies “drive up prices for consumers” during emergencies.

Fox News' Stephen Sorace and Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.

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