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Position: Harris should be elected
This position addresses the topic 2024 United States presidential election.
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While character is enormously important — in this election, pre-eminently so — policies matter. Many Americans remain deeply concerned about their prospects and their children’s in an unstable and unforgiving world. For them, Ms. Harris is clearly the better choice. She has committed to using the power of her office to help Americans better afford the things they need, to make it easier to own a home, to support small businesses and to help workers. Mr. Trump’s economic priorities are more tax cuts, which would benefit mostly the wealthy, and more tariffs, which will make prices even more unmanageable for the poor and middle class. | 
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From The Only Patriotic Choice for President, by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, September 24, 2024) (view)
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Harris proposes to make the child tax credit permanent, pass the PRO Act (making it easier for labor unions to organize), build 3 million units of affordable housing, expand Social Security, and tackle price-gouging and healthcare costs—all significant extensions of the Biden administration’s notably progressive economic achievements. And although some of her wealthy backers haven’t been shy in pressing her to fire Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, Harris has, so far at least, stood firm behind Khan and the anti-monopoly agenda she has pursued at the FTC. |
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From The Nation Endorses Kamala Harris, by The Nation editorial board (The Nation, September 23, 2024) (view)
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Harris, 59, brings a long career of advocating for the public from the local level to the international stage. She chose a compassionate, pragmatic leader in picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate and has amassed a broad base of support that crosses party lines and ideological stances. And she shows the presidential leadership and devotion to American ideals necessary to lead the country into its next chapter. Oregonians should elect Harris as America’s next president and put Trump in the rearview mirror for good. |
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From Vote for Kamala Harris for president, by The Oregonian editorial board (The Oregonian, September 22, 2024) (view)
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Harris deserves America’s trust and support based on her own merits, many of which have shined in recent weeks since she was thrust into the Democratic nomination. Harris is experienced, tough, level-headed and works hard to study and get things right. |
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From Kamala Harris earns America's trust, by Wisconsin State Journal editorial board (Wisconsin State Journal, September 15, 2024) (view)
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This editorial board supports Harris as the leader better able to tackle the major issues ahead: income inequality and wealth disparities, rising health and other costs, assaults on abortion rights and personal freedoms, global instability, and the growing threat of climate catastrophe. Focusing her campaign on helping the middle class, Harris wants to offer builders incentives for more housing. She supports legislation to stop landlords from colluding by using software to set rents. She proposes financial help for first-time homebuyers. |
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From The Seattle Times editorial board recommends: Kamala Harris for U.S. president, by The Seattle Times editorial board (The Seattle Times, September 1, 2024) (view)
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Trump supporters tend to cite the volume of legal, political and social controversies surrounding him as evidence that "the system" is out to get him and declare its leaders will do anything to keep him out of office. Another way to look at those controversies, however, is to recognize that they are based in verifiable fact, supported by reams of evidence and represent a profound statement on his unfitness for office. That is and has been our position. And, now as he brandishes a Supreme Court ruling on immunity that gives him all but unchecked power, he presents the prospect of even greater instability and division for a democracy in deep need of the opposite. |
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From Harris-Walz for leadership emphasizing optimism, determination, by Daily Herald editorial board (Daily Herald, October 6, 2024) (view)
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Harris' values are rooted firmly in our nation's tradition and the American experience. She is someone who chooses to lift people up, not denigrate them. Someone who seeks commonalities, not division. Someone who looks at our nation as a community of strivers trying to make their country and themselves better, not as a battleground where citizens consider each other an enemy who must be defeated. Someone who doesn’t see people with whom she disagrees as evil, but simply as people with a different point of view. |
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Ms. Harris’s economic proposals would be measurably more productive and prudent than Mr. Trump’s. Various analyses by well-respected experts have said as much: Moody’s Analytics found that Ms. Harris’ proposals would add more than a million new jobs and boost disposable incomes. Mr. Trump’s plans would set the stage for a recession as early as next year, cost more than 3 million jobs, and reduce middle class incomes by at least $2,000. |
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From For president, Kamala Harris, by Times Union editorial board (Times Union, October 25, 2024) (view)
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His former chief of staff says Trump has “nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions and our constitution.” His former Defense Secretary calls him “a threat to democracy as we know it.” His former Attorney General says he “shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.” His former chairman of the Joint Chiefs calls Trump “fascist to the core.” They speak with the zeal of panicked prophets and carry the same message: The United States and its people are better than what Trump represents, and we must reject his menacing plot to turn the world’s longest-running democracy into his vanity autocracy |
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From The Star-Ledger Endorsement: Harris over Trump, by a mile, by The Star-Ledger editorial board (The Star-Ledger, October 20, 2024) (view)
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Harris’ work in the U.S. Senate reinforced her credentials as a champion for middle-class and working families. She supported legislation that aimed to lower health care costs, protect Social Security and Medicare, and expand affordable housing — issues that resonate with older Americans who have spent their lives contributing to society and now seek dignity in their twilight years. Harris’ push for measures to combat climate change, from reducing greenhouse gas emissions to investing in clean energy, aims to address not only immediate health concerns but also an understanding of the long-term effects that current policies will have on future generations. |
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From The Sun endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to lead the nation, by Las Vegas Sun editorial board (Las Vegas Sun, October 20, 2024) (view)
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Harris understands the urgency, calling climate change an “existential threat,” but also looking to market forces to help mitigate it. As vice president, Harris helped craft through the Inflation Reduction Act and other measures what The Washington Post describes as “the largest government investment into climate and clean energy initiatives, and grants to states to help [them] recover from extreme weather events.” Trump, by contrast, “told The Washington Post’s editorial board in 2016 that he is ‘not a great believer in man-made climate change,’” The Post reported, adding that Trump has at times called global warming a “hoax.” |
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From We endorse Kamala Harris for president, by The Plain Dealer editorial board (The Plain Dealer, October 18, 2024) (view)
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Harris is well-versed on public policy, will honor the office with dignity and has demonstrated she can govern with intelligence, strength and compassion. Her ebullience, optimism and invocation of “we” is a sunny and inclusive reprieve from Trump’s divisive rhetoric. Her Indian and Jamaican heritage and rhetoric celebrates our diversity while reminding voters of what Americans share. This is in keeping with American presidential tradition. Think of the optimistic rhetoric of former presidents Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy. |
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From Kamala Harris is the superior choice to Donald Trump, by San Antonio Express-News editorial board (San Antonio Express-News, October 18, 2024) (view)
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On immigration, Harris has again been saddled with blame for Biden’s slow response to the flood of migrants across the US-Mexico border that created significant costs for Massachusetts, New York City, and many other locales. But she has been right to call for a more humane legislative solution that would both strengthen border security and create a pathway to citizenship for migrants. Trump’s policy is purely punitive: He says he would use the military to deport millions of migrants, whether or not they are employed and contributing to their communities. Thousands of American businesses — farms, food services, and construction firms in particular — could face major worker shortages if he does what he pledges to do. |
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From The Boston Globe editorial board endorses Kamala Harris, by The Boston Globe editorial board (The Boston Globe, October 18, 2024) (view)
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Trump is unapologetic about his mendacity. Yet, he has somehow gone through his entire 78 years without facing significant material consequences for his actions. He has been convicted of 34 felonies in New York but hasn’t served a day behind bars. He owes a victim of his sexual abuse $83.3 million in damages but hasn’t paid her a cent. As president, he fomented the Jan. 6 coup attempt to keep himself in power — yet remains on the ballot in every state, including Georgia, where he is charged with separate acts of conspiring to overturn local election results in his favor. |
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From Endorsement: Kamala Harris for president to put an end to Trump’s long con, by San Francisco Chronicle editorial board (San Francisco Chronicle, November 3, 2024) (view)
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Mr. Trump spent his career building things and employing people. He ran for the White House in 2016 not to enrich himself — he was already a billionaire — but to give back to his country. He has been attacked like no other chief executive for one simple reason: He refuses to do the bidding of the machine. |
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From Donald Trump for president, by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, September 27, 2024) (view)
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His opponents focus on how Trump’s administration was marked by a relentless soap opera of high drama and chaos — much of which they fueled. And yes, many find him offensive — and we say fair enough: He can be ridiculously hyperbolic. But before COVID wreaked havoc across the globe, Trump’s first-term results were paychecks that grew markedly faster than inflation, the lowest unemployment in 50 years, a secure border and peace overseas. |
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From The Post endorses Donald Trump for president — the clear choice for a better future, by New York Post editorial board (New York Post, October 25, 2024) (view)
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Mr. Trump’s instincts on the economy — tariffs aside — reflect the importance of fostering the conditions in which Americans can prosper and improve their fortunes through their own individual initiative. He has a track record of working to secure the border. His position on abortion — that he would veto a federal ban and that the matter should be left up to the states — is more mainstream than Ms. Harris’ belief that the procedure should be legal till the moment of birth. We believe Mr. Trump is also better prepared to handle the myriad foreign policy challenges that will confront the next president. |
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From Las Vegas Review-Journal endorses Donald Trump for president, by Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board (Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 13, 2024) (view)
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