Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign added a new section to its website outlining her policy platform just ahead of Tuesday night’s showdown when she will take the stage to debate the GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump. 

What You Need To Know

  • Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign added a new section to its website outlining her policy platform just ahead of Tuesday night’s showdown when she will take the stage to debate the GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump
  • A New York Times and Siena College poll released over the weekend showed 28% of respondents who are likely to vote in November said they needed to know more about Harris, significantly higher than the 9% who said the same about Trump 
  • The page divide Harris’ policies into four categories: the economy; protecting freedoms, focusing on abortion and civil rights; safety and justice, such as gun violence, crime and immigration; and foreign policy, which also includes a segment on supporting members of the military and veterans
  • Each category includes a blurb contrasting Harris' view with Project 2025, which Democrats have sought to tie to Trump despite the former president trying to distance himself from it

The addition of a concrete outline of where she stands on key issues could be a step toward better defining the vice president – unexpectedly thrust to the top of the ticket after President Joe Biden’s stunning exit from the race in July – as a New York Times and Siena College poll released over the weekend showed 28% of respondents who are likely to vote in November said they needed to know more about her, significantly higher than the 9% who said the same about Trump 

The new page, titled “A New Way Forward,” pledges that Harris would be a president “for all Americans,” focused on protecting fundamental freedoms, strengthening democracy and giving every person the opportunity to get ahead. 

“As a prosecutor, Attorney General, Senator, and now Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris always stood up for the people against predators, scammers, and powerful interests,” the website reads. “She promises to be a president for all Americans, a president who unites us around our highest aspirations, and a president who always fights for the American people.”

The page goes on to divide Harris’ policies into four categories: the economy; protecting freedoms, focusing on abortion and civil rights; safety and justice, such as gun violence, crime and immigration; and foreign policy, which also includes a segment on supporting members of the military and veterans. 

Each of the four sections includes a list of policies that fall under the given topics as well as a blurb seeking to contrast the vice president’s views on the subject with those expressed in Project 2025 – the right-wing platform curated by the conservative Heritage Foundation that Democrats have vigorously tried to tie to Trump. The former president has sought to distance himself from it despite several of his allies and former staffers helping create it. 

Both candidates have faced criticism for a lack of focus on their campaign promises and will hone in on policy ahead of November’s election. 

Trump’s campaign – which, on its own site, has a list of 20 policies backed by the former president but offers little details on them or how he would achieve them and instead links to the Republican party’s more in-depth agenda – criticized the vice president last month specifically for not having a policy page on her website. 

Opponents have also focused on the vice president “flip-flopping,” as she has shifted her views this election on several issues, such as fracking and the border, that she took during her stint running for president in 2020 when she was looking to overtake fellow Democrats to win the party’s nomination. 

In her only sit-down television interview thus far since becoming the Democratic nominee, Harris told CNN last month that her “values have not changed” when pressed about her shifting stances. 

Harris traveled to North Carolina in August to lay out proposals to enact a federal ban on price gouging in the food and grocery industries, provide a $6,000 Child Tax Credit for families with newborn children for the first year of their life, build three million new homes and rental units to take on the housing shortage and more. 

Earlier this month, she stopped in New Hampshire to propose expanding small business tax deductions for startup expenses from $5,000 to $50,000. Harris has also proposed a smaller tax increase on capital gains compared to Biden. 

The new page on her website reiterates the economic proposals she has already laid out and pledges she will fight to cut taxes for more than 100 million working and middle class Americans. 

Among the other policies listed, the page also says the vice president will seek to ensure “no one is above the law,” referencing the Supreme Court decision this summer that found Trump and presidents have immunity from being prosecuted for most acts carried out in their official capacity as commander in chief. The vice president, the section says, will also support term limits for Supreme Court justices and an ethics code for the high court.