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Harris isn’t talking manufacturing, sparking swing state concern

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Kamala Harris has been part of an administration that’s poured more than $50 billion into Rust Belt industry and infrastructure.

As the Democrats ’ nominee for president, she is hardly mentioning the massive spending as she woos voters in the crucial region.

Instead, Harris and her surrogates are focusing their economic pitch on the “care economy” The pivot is a major pivot from her current boss, President Joe Biden .

Harris aides and key surrogates acknowledge that her economic pitch is more focused on what Democrats want to do in the future.

Many of the care-related policies she is highlighting in her campaign draw from the Biden-era “ Build Back Better ” proposals that were jettisoned in congressional negotiations over the IRA and other bills.