By Jeff Mason
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris advised supporters in Nevada on Saturday she supported eliminating taxes on suggestions, taking an analogous place to her rival Donald Trump in an effort to win over service employees, an necessary constituency within the state.
Harris and her Democratic working mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, wrapped up a multi-day tour of battleground states on Saturday with their cease in Nevada, a western state that would play a pivotal function within the Nov. 5 presidential election.
“It is my promise to everyone here when I am president we will continue to fight for working families, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,” Harris mentioned.
Harris mentioned she would work to drive down client costs, vowing to “take on big corporations that engage in illegal price-gouging” and company landlords that unfairly increase rents on working households, in addition to going after large pharmaceutical firms to drive drug costs decrease.
Trump, who advised a rally in Las Vegas in June that he would search to finish taxation of earnings from suggestions, accused Harris of stealing his coverage proposal.
“Kamala Harris, whose ‘Honeymoon’ period is ENDING… just copied my NO TAXES ON TIPS Policy,” Trump mentioned on his Reality Social app. “The difference is, she won’t do it, she just wants it for Political Purposes!”
Harris, who formally grew to become the Democratic Occasion’s presidential nominee this week, has been campaigning with Walz in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Arizona, all states that historically swing between supporting Republicans and Democrats in presidential elections.
To change into president, a candidate needn’t win the nationwide well-liked vote however should win 270 electoral votes. Every state has a lot of electoral votes based mostly on its inhabitants, making the swing states particularly necessary.
She is going to journey to San Francisco in her residence state of California on Sunday, the place she is because of attend a fundraiser with former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Practically 700 persons are anticipated on the occasion, which is anticipated to boost greater than $12 million, a marketing campaign official mentioned.
Harris and Walz, whose choice she introduced in Pennsylvania – one other swing state – on Tuesday, are searching for to keep up and construct on the momentum that she has generated since President Joe Biden stepped apart because the social gathering’s standard-bearer final month.
Harris was main Trump, the Republican former president, by 4 share factors every in separate polls performed in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, one other swing state, by the New York Instances and Siena Faculty, a marked distinction from polls taken earlier than Biden give up the presidential race.
The Trump marketing campaign launched a memo from its chief pollster, Tony Fabrizio, pushing again in opposition to the outcomes. “Once again, we see a series of public surveys released with the clear intent and purpose of depressing support for President Trump,” Fabrizio mentioned.
Nationally, Harris was forward of Trump by 5 share factors, 42% to 37%, in an Ipsos ballot printed on Thursday, wider her lead from a July 22-23 Reuters/Ipsos survey, which discovered her up 37% to 34%.
Harris has raised a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} and held rallies with 1000’s of supporters since changing into the Democratic candidate, recurrently eclipsing the smaller occasions that Biden held and drawing ire from Trump, to whom crowd dimension has all the time been an necessary barometer of political energy.
The Harris marketing campaign mentioned greater than 12,000 folks had been within the enviornment in Las Vegas on Saturday and police had turned away roughly 4,000 extra as a result of folks in line had been changing into unwell as temperatures reached within the Nevada warmth, the place temperatures reached 109 levels Fahrenheit (40 levels Celsius) on Saturday.
Harris has spent the week drawing contrasts with Trump. On Saturday, earlier than leaving Arizona, she mentioned she disagreed strongly with the previous president in regards to the Federal Reserve.
She mentioned she wouldn’t intervene with the unbiased Fed if elected president, in sharp distinction to Trump, who on Thursday mentioned presidents ought to have a say over choices made by the central financial institution.