NORTH HAMPTON, N.H. — Vice President Kamala Harris rolled out another plank of her economic agenda here Wednesday, pitching small-business relief in a Democratic-leaning state ahead of her critical debate next week against former president Donald Trump.
Harris went on to unveil a proposal to significantly expand tax deductions for small businesses and regulatory relief for those looking to start a company. The trip to Throwback Brewery was an effort to highlight the Biden administration’s record of small-business growth while also laying out plans to bolster the economy by supporting entrepreneurs in the future.
The visit marked one of her first major breaks with Biden on economic policy, with her campaign saying Wednesday that she supported a significantly lower capital gains tax rate for high earners than the current White House proposal.
While New Hampshire, which Democrats have carried in the last five presidential elections, has not been considered among the battleground states up for grabs in November, aides say Harris visited the Granite State in part to show that she is not taking any voters for granted and in part to woo the kind of moderate and Republican voters who dislike Trump.
“Our campaign is reaching voters of all political stripes — including Nikki Haley voters who are turned off by Trump’s extremism,” Harris’s campaign said in a statement, which noted that Haley, the former U.N. ambassador, garnered 43 percent of the state’s vote in her bid against Trump.
