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Vice President Kamala Harris’ supporters want her to keep in line with President Biden on some policy points but not others, several of them said Thursday.
Fox News Digital spoke with Democrats who turned out at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland for Biden and Harris’ first joint appearance since she became the party’s presidential nominee.
Their speech came hours after an Axios report said Harris wants to create “distance” between her own campaign and Biden on the economy, which he had struggled with in terms of approval ratings for much of his term.
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“I would say there are some things that, you know, that were going well, and there are some things that are needing to change,” said Harris supporter Brian Galbraith.
However, he pointed out that the poor economic and inflationary outlook that plagued the first half of Biden’s term was a global phenomenon after the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than something directly caused by his policies.
“While we have been impacted significantly by the recent inflation, we need to take a look around and realize that everywhere has been. So, no matter who, Democrat or Republican, I think we still would have been facing these issues,” he said.
Another voter named Constance suggested she was happy with Biden’s economic policy but wanted to see Harris lean more into voter access issues.
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“I want to see her try to follow some of his, but I also want to see her come into her own, like kind of a combination,” Constance said. “I want to continue to…
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