Trump surrogates in a Monday press conference slammed the “pure socialism” of Kamala Harris’ economic policies — and predicted a polling slump after the convention wraps.
Trump campaign adviser Brian Hughes was joined by Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) at the Trump Hotel Chicago amid the Democratic National Convention to call out Harris’ shoddy math on the cost of the newly released economic proposals.
“We’re not hearing a lot from Kamala Harris about these policies,” Hughes said. “And I think there’s a good reason when she does stop and take a question like she did yesterday and was asked how she’ll pay for the proposals that she’s advocating for, she told you it was a mistake to ask how things will be paid for.”
“Her idea of having basic price controls — it’s never worked anywhere,” Scott added. “This is pure socialism.”
“I want a free market; I want a bottom-up economy; I want capitalism — that’s what Trump stands for,” he also said. “What Harris stands for is what [Nicolas] Maduro and [Hugo] Chavez brought to Venezuela.”
“Venezuelans voted themselves into poverty, and that’s what this election is about,” Johnson agreed.
Toward the tail end of the presser, Hughes predicted that Harris had reached a “plateau” in public polling support that would peter out after the DNC’s “four-day infomercial” of a convention.
