Trump vs Harris: Their diametrically opposed positions from climate change to the Ukrainian one – 2024-08-05 14:58:06

The two great gladiators of the presidential election in the United States, the Donald Trump and the Kamala Harris, they have opposing positions on many issues, from dealing with the climate crisis to immigration and foreign policy.

The victory of one or the other will affect the daily life and future of hundreds of millions of people around the world, whether they fully implement their declarations or partially implement them after entering the White House.

Democrats, who officially nominated Biden’s vice president, argue that behind Trump’s populism is a 900-page ultraconservative agenda called “Project 2025,” drawn up by the Heritage Foundation think tank two years ago.

The plan includes strengthening the powers of the president, selective dismissals of thousands of civil servants, disbanding the Ministry of Education, extensive tax breaks for the very rich and large corporations, cuts in public investment in renewable energy sources, bans on pornography and the sale of the pill. next day etc.

Trump has said he knows nothing about the program, that he disagrees with some points and finds others ridiculous. But the authors include former advisers to him while the Heritage Foundation has been charting Republican policy since the Ronald Reagan era.

Climate change

• For Trump climate change just… doesn’t exist. His ecological sensibilities are à la carte: he has declared that he will target offshore wind farms because they “cause huge problems for fish and whales”. Trump had withdrawn the US from the international Paris Climate Agreement (a decision that was overturned by the Biden administration) and now promises to cancel a number of green programs (e.g. for electric cars) and achieve a reduction in prices fuel. Trump wants to lift restrictions on mining, increase US oil production and remove limits on natural gas exports.

• THE Grace promises to continue Biden’s green policies by supporting investments in solar and wind power.

Abortions

• THE Trump has promised not to sign a federal abortion ban, leaving the ball to the states to decide individually — but he’s hiding behind the Supreme Court’s decision as his own appointments bolstered the conservative majority of justices . Abortion bans in Republican-controlled states could cost Trump if half the population, namely women, decide that the most important issue in this election is whether they should be able to decide for themselves about their own bodies.
• THE Kamala Harris she was the first vice president in American history to visit an abortion clinic and is betting on the female vote against Trump.

Immigrant

• It is the Achilles heel of Harris, identified by Trump with a policy that turned the US into a “dumping ground”. Trump is promising to complete “his Wall” on the border with Mexico to close off “murderers and rapists” and mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
• THE Grace he had described this wall as a “vanity medieval project”, but he is politically haunted by a failed tour of Central America as vice president. “Don’t come,” Harris warned illegal immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, but the human river at the border grew. The program to encourage private investment in the above countries in order to curb immigration has not worked.

Ukraine

• THE Trump says he can end the war in a day by forcing Russia into a compromise while warning that American protection comes at a cost. He describes a return to American isolationism that would leave allies militarily and politically exposed. He prefers to talk about “war” rather than “Russian invasion” of Ukraine, promises to bring peace and not wars like Biden, and to counter the threat of China with his fists.
• Advocate of a hard line towards Russia and supporting Ukraine “for as long as necessary”, declares Grace, accusing Trump of embracing Putin and threatening NATO instead of his enemies. Harris gives Europeans an image of continuity.

Middle East

• A great supporter of Israel is considered to be Trump which calls on Netanyahu to “finish the job” in Gaza. Although the Tehran regime is a permanent target of Washington, Trump seems less inclined to rein in his friend Netanyahu than to teach Iran a lesson with a “preemptive” strike, something that two Democratic presidents, Obama and Biden.
• THE Grace anguish over the humanitarian catastrophe and calls for an “immediate ceasefire” in a more strident tone than President Biden. The slight differentiation of the vice president from the president was probably dictated by pre-election expediencies to contain disgruntled voters, but risking support from the Jewish lobby.