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Kamala Harris Refuses To Answer When Asked If Americans Are Better Off Than Four Years Ago

During the 1980 presidential election, Ronald Reagan helped secure his victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter by asking the American people if they were better off than they were four years earlier.

As Wednesday’s debate between President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, the very first question was to Harris, who could not bring herself to claim that the American people are better off after four years of the Biden-Harris regime than they were under the Trump administration.

According to Breitbart:

Muir asks Harris the first question, which is whether people are better off today than they were four years ago economically. Harris immediately begins dodging and claiming falsely she was raised in the middle class. She does not answer the question about whether people are better off at all.

The opening exchange attracted significant coverage on social media:

For the record, here is how Reagan addressed the topic 44 years ago, per his presidential library:

Next Tuesday is election day. Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls; you’ll stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was 4 years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was 4 years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we’re as strong as we were 4 years ago? And if you answer all of those questions yes, why then, I think your choice is very obvious as to who you’ll vote for. If you don’t agree, if you don’t think that this course that we’ve been on for the last 4 years is what you would like to see us follow for the next 4, then I could suggest another choice that you have.

This country doesn’t have to be in the shape that it is in. We do not have to go on sharing in scarcity, with the country getting worse off, with unemployment growing. We talk about the unemployment lines. If all of the unemployed today were in a single line allowing 2 feet for each one of them, that line would reach from New York City to Los Angeles, California. All of this can be cured, and all of it can be solved.

After four years of the Biden-Harris administration’s runaway spending and decades-high inflation, Reagan’s sentiment seems just as relevant today as it was in 1980. And based on Harris’ response during Wednesday’s debate, she seems to agree.

Here’s a clip from the Reagan-Carter debate:


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