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What Business Wants to Learn About Harris
Heading into the Democratic National Convention, many of the vice president’s policies have yet to be explained. Corporate leaders hope that will change.
The Democratic National Convention kicks off with the party hoping to keep up the momentum gained since Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Biden as the party’s presidential candidate.Credit…Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
The race to define Harris is on
The center of the national conversation this week turns to Chicago, as the Democratic National Convention is set to kick off on Monday.
The gathering’s unofficial theme is unity — despite expectations that tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters will gather outside the event — with President Biden set to deliver tonight’s big speech as a political swan song of sorts.
But what many in business want from the four-day political extravaganza is more clarity on how Vice President Kamala Harris would govern should she win in November, including how much of Biden’s largely progressive economic agenda she would keep.
Harris is entering the event on a sustained wave of good news. She is leading Donald Trump in national polls. In four key battleground states, she is ahead by at least four points, according to the latest Times/Siena College poll.
More positive news for Harris could come tomorrow, when the vice president’s and Trump’s campaigns are set to announce their fund-raising numbers for July.
The race is on to define Harris for voters. Her campaign announced an enormous $370 million ad blitz after Labor Day, focused on battleground states. “We have to make sure that voters know her,” Quentin Fulks, her principal deputy campaign manager, told The Times.
