Before the event, the Harris campaign released a list of her recommendations. She pledged to collaborate with Congress to establish regulations
“to make clear that big corporations can’t unfairly exploit consumers” in order to increase their profits, including a “federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries.
” In addition, her campaign indicated that she will push for more authority for state and federal prosecutors to impose “strict new penalties on companies that break the rules.”
Accusing the vice president of being a “communist,” the Trump campaign called her “Comrade Kamala.”
The campaign’s rapid response team stated in an unsigned statement, “It’s hard to overstate how disastrous of an idea it is to let D.C. bureaucrats dictate the price of groceries in cities, suburbs,
