Harris campaign targets small business owners in battleground state Arizona
As the election grows nearer, surrogates for the presidential candidates continue to campaign in battleground state Arizona.The most recent voter bloc being targeted is small business owners.On Oct.
8, Minnesota Sen.Amy Klobuchar visited Phoenix and hosted a networking event with small business owners to discuss the Harris-Walz policies in the newly-launched “Small Business for Harris-Walz.”During the event, 50 Arizona small businesses announced their endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov.
Tim Walz.“We are focused on the vision that Vice President Harris has for our small businesses which will transform Arizona and the United States,” said Gabe Hagen, owner of Brick Road Coffee in Phoenix.“Trump’s record speaks for itself.
In his first term, Trump oversaw the loss of more jobs than any president since Herbert Hoover and his tax scam gifted billions to the wealthy and big corporations and created new incentives for companies to ship American jobs overseas.”In Harris-Walz’s campaign document, “A New Way Forward for the Middle Class,” the campaign outlines how they would provide economic support for small businesses, citing Harris’ former record.During her vice presidency, she established the Economic Opportunity Coalition, which spent billions of taxpayer dollars to create opportunity in underserved communities.Additionally, she established a $12 billion fund to provide capital to small businesses.Harris-Walz’s plan for the future is to set a goal of 25 million new business applications, expand the startup expense deduction to $50,000, make it easier for small businesses to file taxes and remove excessive occupational licensing requirements.According to the report, they intend to do this by establishing a small business expansion fund that would enable financial institutions to cover interest costs while small businesses are starting up, allocating a third of federal contract dollars to small businesses and removing the extra l...