Media begin to turn on Harris over economic policy ‘gimmicks’

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The media have taken heat for hesitating to hold Vice President Kamala Harris’s feet to the fire after replacing President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket, but not all left-leaning outlets are buying her much-anticipated economic plan to fight inflation.

After going weeks with no policy agendas on her campaign website, Harris unveiled her plan to fight inflation, which takes aim at business owners who increase prices in a market where the cost of buying and producing goods has never been higher.

“Harris’s plan to stop price gouging could create more problems than it solves,” one CNN headline reads. The Washington Post published an op-ed titled, “The times demand serious economic ideas. Harris supplies gimmicks.” The latter piece pushed back on Harris’s claims that price gouging is causing inflation.

An economist told ABC that price increases at grocery stores do not…

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