In Just 4 Weeks, Harris Has Already Gotten More Specific On Policy Than Trump

But she still has a lot of explaining to do.

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Vice President Kamala Harris has been getting plenty of scrutiny and more than little grief over the lack of specificity in her policy agenda.

It’s not hard to see why, though some context might be nice too.

On the one hand, Harris hasn’t sat for interviews or held formal press conferences, or even posted a detailed agenda on her campaign website. Until late last week, when her campaign published a series of proposals to “lower costs for American families,” she hadn’t introduced or defended any major initiatives.

And while Harris had made clear in her speeches that she is mostly running on the same mainstream liberal agenda that President Joe Biden had embraced in his budget proposals, that commitment leaves plenty of room for ambiguity ― which, truth be told, her campaign has seemed in no rush to clear up. Last week, one anonymous adviser told The Atlantic’s Ron Brownstein that Harris’ team wasn’t especially worried about critics demanding “five-prong policy agenda” items.