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look at both of those visits by the vice president and former president in various battleground states, talking about matters of the economy. the headline this morning for the washington times, both candidates wrangle over the pro-business mantle. that is how they frame it, adding that ms. harris spoke at the economic club of pittsburgh where she assured republicans and business owners she was in their corner. she pledged to cut red tape and use government power to spur the private sector. mr. trump reminded folks that ms. harris had years to address america's economic and immigration woes. you can see both of those speeches by the candidates on our website at c-span.org. our free video app at c-span now. if you want to call us and tell us what you think about which candidate would do better on matters of the economy it is (202) 748-8000 if you say it is the vice president. (202) 748-8001 if you say it is

the former president. if you think it is neither it is (202) 748-8002. and (202) 748-8003 if you are not sure. the vice president, in pittsburgh yesterday. one of the things she talked about, those policy goals to help america build wealth. here is a portion from yesterday. vice pres. harris: i call my vision the opportunity economy. and it is about making sure everyone can find a job and more. and more. because, frankly, having a job, i believe, in our ambition and aspiration, should be baseline. and we should aspire and have the ambition and plan to do more. i want americans and families to be able to not just get by.

but be able to get ahead. [applause] to thrive. be able to thrive. i don't want you to have to worry about making your monthly rent if your car breaks down. i want you to be able to save up for your child's education. to take a nice vacation from time to time. i want you to be able to buy christmas presents for your loved ones without feeling anxious when you are looking at your bank statement. i want you to be able to build some wealth. not just for yourself, but also for your children and your grandchildren. intergenerational wealth. host: just a portion from the vice president yesterday. that was in pittsburgh. in north carolina it was former president trump addressing matters of the economy as well. particularly when it comes to tariff policy and manufacturing. here is a portion from his

speech yesterday. >> in the world's reserve currency is under siege right now. a lot of people think we will not have the reserve currency. if we lose that that is like the equivalent of losing a war. we will have it if i am elected president. we will have the world's reserve currency in better shape and every country will follow it. and if they don't we will put tariffs on that country and we won't trade with that country and then they will call us and say, we would love to have you continue to be the world's reserve currency. so easy. it is so easy, but you need the right messenger. you need the right messenger. she did not support domestic manufacturing. she killed 24,000 u.s. manufacturing jobs. in the last month alone we lost 24,000 jobs. you know, there is a reason for the interest rate cut from the

fed. a big part of that reason is that our economy is doing really, really badly. kamala goes to work every day in the white house. families are suffering now, so if she has a plan she should stop grandstanding and do it. just do it. you have a few months left. do it. host: a sample from yesterday on both speeches. tell us which candidate you think is better. surely in pennsylvania says former president trump will do that. surely, you are first up. caller: thank you very much. i want you to -- i want to thank you for taking my call. we know what trump can do. he has done it before. he was there for four years and we know how good our country was. and now we see what is going on, and we know how bad it is. when you cannot afford to buy groceries and feed your family you cannot afford to put gas in your car to get to work, and you

see all of these people coming in from everywhere, and they are getting treated better than the american people who live here, work here, pay taxes, this is a crime. and, you know, i want to say one thing in the hope you will allow me to say this. you know, they go on and on and on about how she never said anything about how bad biden was. host: we will stop up there only because we will keep it on matters of the economy. in alabama, a supporter of vice president. go ahead. caller: yes. when i look at the two as far as the economy go i think about the tariffs that donald trump put on china when he was president and -- hello? host: you are on, go ahead. caller: he had to pay the farmers $30 billion so that -- because their grain was rotting

in their silos and they could not trade. that made the corn, wheat, soybeans, everything go up. ms. harris has a plan for small business, first time homeowners, semiconductors, a plan for the future economy. i don't see how it is even a comparison, because trump, his father gave him $400 million. he squandered that. he don't have anything now. his business is gone. he had six foreclosures. i don't know how you trust a guy that handled this economy of america when he cannot handle his own personal economy. host: we have set up another line, by the way. if you think neither candidate will do a better job on the economy. jim, good morning. tell us why. caller: good morning.

the thing that scares the health -- the hell out of me is the proposal to tax unrealized gains. this will cause the economy to implode. all of the gains in private homeownership, businesses, everything will be up for grabs by the tax system. and this is insanity. we cannot do this. this just won't work. host: you expressed a sentiment that neither candidate would do the job. why is that? caller: i did not hear you. say that again. host: you say that neither candidate would do the job well, that is the line you called. tell us why. caller: i don't understand what

the attraction to this unrealized profits tax is. host: ok. that is jim in maryland. the washington post took a look at recent polling, about how people felt about the economy and candidates. although voters still favor the former president, donald trump, on handling the economy, his advantage has dropped dramatically in recent weeks as trump now averages a six percentage point edge on the economy compared with 812-point lead against president joe biden earlier this year. according to an analysis of five polls. a fox news poll this month found that 51% of registered voters favor mr. trump on the economy compared to 46% in favor of ms. harris. that is compared with a 15-point advantage that mr. trump had over mr. biden in march. your thoughts on which of these candidates would do the job on

matters of the economy. in new jersey, a person who says it is former president trump. this is steve. hello. caller: hello. i am on the air? host: you are on. go-ahead. caller: thanks. when i was an undergraduate i got a degree in economics. when i saw harris talks i don't think she understands the basic principle of supply and demand. even if i gave her a lecture. one thing that has been talked recently is about inflation. now, in 2021 biden and harris pushed through, i think it is called the american recovery act. that involved the spending and giving way of $1.9 trillion. 70% of that money was borrowed from the federal reserve, which is -- economics is called monetizing a debt. it is like creating money out of

thin air. that is where inflation came from. now people want to vote for harris, they want to risk another round of inflation? go ahead. host: tell us why you think mr. trump would do a better job on the economy. caller: i think he has a basic understanding of inflation, how it distorts prices. many assets become overvalued and create doubles. probably one that is coming up is probably housing. i live in new jersey and there is a great deal of real estate development and multifamily housing units. i can go from elizabeth to dunellen, new jersey on a train and that is all i see off of the rail when i'm on the train. host: ok. caller: finally i just want to say, you vote for harris, you will not be able to afford to go to the dollar store and buy anything. host: let's hear from anthony in

arizona, who says that the vice president would do a better job on matters of the economy. anthony, go ahead. you are next. caller: thank you, teammate. and thank you, madam vice president, for coming to cochise county fair this friday. i would like to say, pedro, if you got everything you wanted in life without any hard worker sacrifice, would you store it, and how long would you keep it? and the reason i say that is, do not be a servant and elected officials are public servants. and as far as working at mcdonald's, i can let the former president know i worked at mcdonald's, hardee's, and wendy's before i joined the military while i was a college

student. host: anthony, why don't you elaborate why you think it is the vice president who would do a better job on the economy? caller: first of all, who can bank a casino? obviously someone has done it in their past. number two, when you learn how to pull yourself up from the bottom, you might -- you meet people along the way. and if you are going to handle any type of economic, political, financial decision, you rely on others to assist you. if you go at it alone you lose. host: ok. ray is in tennessee. says it is mr. trump who would do better on matters of the economy. go ahead, ray. caller: yes. you got a look at both these people.

i look at ms. harris as a -- how she talked about how she was going to fix everything. she talks in circles. she has no understanding of business, and she just goes on and on about things. look, everybody has to be responsible for themselves. she is talking like the government is going to do everything for everybody. that don't work. if you got a brain and all you can see that is not working. donald trump believes he can bring people together in this country and give them jobs. that is what will give them prosperity. the government is going to give them prosperity. it has got to be themselves. everybody has to get a job.

my granddaughter -- i'm 80 years old. my granddaughter is getting married, and her and her fiance, they pooled their money together, worked hard, she got a degree, she works hard, they are buying them a house for the first time. but they are getting out there and they are doing it. host: that is ray in tennessee. those are the lines if you want to call and tell us which candidate you think will do better on matters of the economy. both of those candidates speaking yesterday. the vice president, (202) 748-8000. the former president, (202) 748-8001. if you say neither candidate, it is (202) 748-8002. and perhaps you are not sure at this time. (202) 748-8003. he was the former president with more criticism of the vice president on her approach to economics. >> no vice president in history has done more damage to the united states economy than kamala harris.

she has no idea what she is talking about on economy or really on anything else. if you watched oprah the other day and he watched those answers, you would not even be thinking of her for president of the united states, because we had four years of that in our country cannot take four more years of that, i can tell you. but twice she cast the deciding vote that caused the worst inflation in maybe 100 years. she abolished our borders and flooded our country with 21 million-plus illegal aliens. they came in from all over. think of it. they came from prisons and jails. they came from mental institutions and insane asylums. they are terrorists. they are criminal street gangs. they are ms 13. we took millions of people like this into our country and we are going to get them out and we are going to get them out fast, that i can tell you.

no country can survive that. no country can survive it. but ask yourself, is anything less expensive than it was four years ago? where are the missing 818,000 jobs? remember, they said 800 -- and they were fake jobs. and they thought they would be caught, but they thought it was going to be after the election, not before the election. they had a leaker -- thank you, mr. leaker -- they had a leaker who leaked the fact that they falsify the numbers. nobody talks about it. press refuses to write it. we don't want to hear kamala's fate promises, even something like she worked very long and hard hours over french fries at mcdonald's. she never worked at mcdonald's. he was a fake story. it was a fake story. the press refuses to write it. this is a very simple one.

she said she worked at mcdonald's and she didn't. on how sophisticated, not complicated. it was a lie. she never worked up mcdonald's over the hot french fries. i think i'm going to mcdonald's in two weeks, actually. and i'm going to work the french fries because i will have work longer and harder at mcdonald's then she did if i do that even for half an hour. host: which candidate would do better on the economy? here is steve in texas who says it is the vice president. hello. caller: yeah, how are you doing? host: you are on. go ahead. caller: listen, i just want to say something. you know, trump is, for some reason these people think that he is such a great businessman. that guy has failed just about everything he has ever done. and he lies constantly. i don't understand how they can't see it, but anyway, like the guy said earlier, he can't

even make a casino work, you know? harris, no, she studied, she learned. she was vice president of four years. i think she knows how the economy works and another thing, on this inflation thing, it is her fault, it is their fault. let me hold a gun to these people's heads and raise these people's prices. it is just one thing that has happened. they have brought the inflation down. i don't know what these people expect. i think it is a no-brainer. vote for harris. thanks. host: gloria, who was on our not sure line. she is in san antonio. hello. caller: good morning. i'm amazed that people cannot see the lies that trump has spewed. still spewing vitriol, hates, and i cannot believe that people don't see this. he has bankrupted everything he has ever touched.

everything that he has done he has lied about it. and vice president does not have that much power. host: gloria, you say you are not sure which candidate would handle the economy better. why is that? caller: i would never, ever vote for trump. i am on the fence about harris. i don't really know that, but i don't really know. but i just feel that trump is not the person to get into power. and he inherited a great economy from biden. he is lying. he did not turn the economy around in two years. and the economy always takes a long time. it takes four to six years to bring it from one administration into the next. he is not responsible for the great economy. he is a liar. host: gloria in san antonio.

some of you on facebook this morning, this is gerald saying we see the vice president has done the last four years. we know how great it was under the former president, so the correct answer is mr. trump. greg said, the candidate who has not declared bankruptcy, has not had to close a fraudulent charity. who is not facing a felony charge for cooking the books on a family business. rosa says one not running the economy at this time. then from jeff warshaw, off facebook, harris, is his choice, saying how did trump bankrupt a casino? if you want to post on our social media site, facebook.com/c-span is how you do that. you can always send us a text too. let's hear from sean, who says it is the former psint he will choose on matters of the economy. he is in maryland. hello. caller: thanks for taking my call. i think it starts and begins

with the borders. we don't know how many the numbers are. you see them, they claim children living in cages. i'm looking in neighborhoods where there is nine families living in one house. i don't know how that is far from different from being a cage. we are talking about nine adults working in a house and then multiple children. that is affecting property taxes. all of a sudden your schools are going to need to be increased. the demand for homes is going to go up. you have all of these multiple families living in a house. what do you think that is going to do when they start raising rents? we can absorb this amount of people. kamala harris and joe biden, this was their plan, to try to bring voters, and it is destroying us. and anybody listening to me, you know what is happening in your communities. i know you have seen it. host: in california, a supporter of the vice president on matters of the economy. hello. caller: hi.

i support harris because she has spelled out so many of her economic policies and goals in a way trump has not. and the fact that ceos and business leaders are endorsing harris tells us a lot. one candidate is lying and what is not. and only one killed over 500,000 people in the pandemic. host: when it comes to the vice president which economic policy do you think she has elaborated better than the former president? caller: even in the clips you showed this morning it showed she was really clear about the details of her policy, whereas trump has, like, ideas about apprenticeships, different kinds of economic things, and trump has just department of veterans' affairs. department of veterans' affairs. committee on veterans' affairs. 'g

went up and manufacturing jobs went down across our country. and across our economy all told most 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during his presidency, starting before the pandemic hit. making trump one of the biggest losers ever on manufacturing. [applause] donald trump also talked a big game on our trade deficit with china. but it is far lower under our watch than any year of his administration. while he constantly got played by china.

i will never hesitate to take swift and strong measures when china undermines the rules of the road at the expense of our workers, our communities, and our companies, whether it is flooding the market with steel, inferior, or at all, unfairly subsidizing shipbuilding, or hurting our small businesses with counterfeits. recall, donald trump actually shipped advanced semiconductor there chips to china, which helps them upgrade their military. understand the impact of these so-called policies that not -- that are not about a plan for strengthening our prosperity or our security.

i will never sell out america to our competitors or adversaries. never. [applause] never. host: again, that was the vice president from yesterday. you can see both of those from her and the former president on our website and our app too. a couple of stories outside the economy. this is from federal news radio. congress passing a stopgap spending bill to avoid it shut down and prevent overseas federal employees from seeing a 22% cut in pay. the house and senate approved a continuing resolution to extend current government funding. that will take place through december 20. meanwhile in new york wabc out of new york and others reporting this morning that the new york city mayor, eric adams, has been indicted in a federal corruption investigation. it has yet to be revealed, but that is making the news rounds today. also in international news the associated press reports that

the u.s., france, and other allies have jointly called for an immediate 21-day cease fire to allow for negotiations in the escalating conflict between israel and hezbollah. those are some of the place -- things taking place outside of matters of the economy. we are asking you which candidate are better on these things, do you think. we will hear from rock in new york. hello. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. listen, first of all, where i come from economically i think capitalism is heading for a crisis. while not sure who can handle it best. i believe eventually we are going to introduce profits and prices controls. but i'm not sure harris would have some ideas, but if she does not get the congress to go with her, the senate and the house, she will have real problems, you know? and trump, forget him, because he lies. forget it. i'm notur