Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear struggled to explain to ABC’s Martha Raddatz Sunday how Vice President Kamala Harris can show voters she is different from President Joe Biden on the issues.
Harris struggled with that question herself last week during an interview with The View, which Raddatz noted on Sunday’s edition of This Week.
Raddatz noted Harris’s difficulty with differentiating herself from the policies of the Biden administration and pressed Beshear to offer an answer on the topic. He struggled to do so during the following exchange:
RADDATZ: Vice President Harris’s campaign motto is a new way forward. Our ABC/Ipsos poll, however, found that while 74 percent of Americans want Harris to diverge from President Biden if elected, 65 percent think she’ll continue the administration’s policies. Why isn’t her idea of being a change candidate resonating?
BESHEAR: Well, I think it’s starting to resonate and it’s going to resonate even more. What we need are for more folks to look at her policies. Again, the middle-class tax break would help right now. Expanding the child tax credit would help right now. She’s the first presidential candidate in my lifetime talking about affordable housing, both on the supply and on the affordability side. All of her plans are about helping people right now. Donald Trump? His plans are Project 2025, tearing away the Affordable Care Act, which will eliminate health care coverage from tens of millions of people. You know, it couldn’t be clearer whose policies will help the American people, but we’ve got to communicate that over and over and over.
RADDATZ: What do you think the biggest difference will be? Do you think she will be different than Joe Biden? What do you think the difference is? She struggled on The View to say anything about anything different that she would be different.
BESHEAR: Well, of course, she’ll be different because we are all different individuals, but just look –.
RADDATZ: Policy-wise, policy-wise.
BESHEAR: Right, but President Biden’s plans were about building a future economy. That is happening right now. We’re building the two biggest battery plants on planet Earth in Kentucky. We built the cleanest – greenest recycle paper mill the world’s ever seen. Those are all through his policies, but hers are about right now. How do we help the American people that are struggling to pay the bills?
Harris was asked by The View last week what she would have done differently throughout the last four years had she been president and not Biden.
“There is not a thing that comes to mind,” she said.
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