MONDAY 11/4/24

There’s a good chance you have voted already, early and/or by mail, and a better chance you made up your mind long ago. Nevertheless, for your convenience, we’re running Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ platform in the left column and Republican candidate Donald J. Trump’s platform in the right column.

Meanwhile, be sure to read pundit-at-large Stephen Macaulay’s analysis and opinion of the Trump/Harris platform on our Substack page.

Here’s your chance to comment on Macaulay’s comments – or submit your comments on the Harris/Walz platform on the left, and/or the Trump/Vance platform on the right, or both. Email editors@thehustings.news and please indicate whether you lean right or left in the subject line.

The Harris/Walz “New Way Forward” laid out on the campaign’s webpage lays out all the economic policy detail Harris’ critics say they have been missing, while the Trump/Vance platform has a lot to say about the former president’s plans for immigration reform. There should be no confusion among undecides about where each candidate stands on the major issues.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, though co-written by former aides from the Trump administration, is conspicuous by its absence from his platform. Described by PolitiFact as a roadmap for the next conservative president to downsize the federal government and fundamentally change the way it works, Harris’ platform page insists Trump would indeed implement as much of it as possible if elected Tuesday. It would, the Harris page says, consolidate his power and bring the Justice Department and the FBI “under his direct control so he can give himself unchecked legal power and go after his opponents, and rule as a dictator on ‘day one.’”

What Trump actually said is that he would be a dictator only on that one day.

--Compiled and edited by Todd Lassa