Harris campaign scoffs after Trump 'huffed and puffed' at Bedminster speech

Following former President Donald Trump's news conference at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign responded with a blistering statement mocking his attacks on Biden administration policies and proposals to reduce cost of living for American families.

Inflation has remained a hot-button issue for the 2024 presidential campaign, even though prices have now broadly stabilized after the post-COVID economic shocks.

“At his country club, Donald Trump, huffed and puffed his opposition to lowering food costs for middle and working class Americans and prescription drug costs for seniors before pivoting back to his usual lies and delusions," stated campaign spokesman James Singer. “No surprise, Trump doesn’t want to defend his agenda that would raise costs for families by $3,900 a year, cut Social Security, and eliminate the Affordable Care Act – all so he can give his rich donors tax breaks."

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“The American people cannot trust a word Donald Trump says, but they can trust Vice President Kamala Harris, who has spent her life taking on fraudsters, cheaters, and criminals like Donald Trump to make our country safer and lower costs for the middle class,” Singer continued.

The email blast also noted that one of Trump's signature policy proposals for a second term is an across-the-board tariff on all imported goods to replace the income tax — which economists have warned would both turbocharge inflation and add thousands of dollars to middle class households' overall tax bills.

Trump's press conference, which follows one at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month and, like his event this week in North Carolina, focused on economic issues, was dismissed by some commenters on social media as a "snorefest" where "his heart's not really in it."