Vice President Kamala Harris rolled out a promise to stomp out taxes on tips during a campaign stop in Las Vegas Saturday — prompting former President Donald Trump to rip her for “copying” one if his signature proposals.
Though she spent a significant portion of her talk ripping Trump, the Democratic presidential nominee regurgitated one of his signature ideas at the top of her stump speech at the battleground state.
“It is my promise to everyone here, when I am President, we will continue our fight for working families of America, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,” Harris told the crowd to a roar of applause.
Trump — who has been touting the same idea since before Harris entered the race — immediately called out the former California prosecutor for pandering to the crowd in Nevada, which has one of the highest concentrations of tipped workers in the country.
“Kamala Harris, whose “Honeymoon” period is ENDING, and is starting to get hammered in the Polls, just copied my NO TAXES ON TIPS Policy,” the GOP presidential nominee wrote on Truth Social.
“The difference is, she won’t do it, she just wants it for Political Purposes! This was a TRUMP idea – She has no ideas, she can only steal from me.”
The ex-president first publicly unveiled the proposal during his own campaign stop in Nevada in June — before Harris replaced President Biden on the Democratic ticket.
Trump later said he was inspired to add the policy to his campaign after meeting a waiter in Nevada who lost a hefty portion of her tips to taxes.
Harris seemingly refuted the idea that Trump would follow through on that promise — she accused him of only serving the wealthiest Americans.
“If he is elected, Donald Trump intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations. He intends to cut Social Security and Medicare, and he intends to surrender our fight against the climate crisis,” Harris said.
Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, echoed the same sentiment in his own speech: “[Trump will] rig the economy so the middle class gets nothing and the rich get richer.”
While they loved the no tax on tips idea, even the Harris-Walz crowd admitted the Vice President copied it.
“Sounds like a positive thing. I mean, it’s the same thing Trump said, Isn’t it?” appraiser Tammy Campa, who earlier in her career was a Bussey at Circus Circus, told The Post.
Others in the audience expressed more confidence that the Vice President would deliver on the no tax on tips promise.
“He said it,” local retiree Varel Jackson told The Post. “But, you know, you can’t believe everything that comes out of Trump’s mouth.”
The Harris-Walz campaign estimated that 12,000 people attended the Saturday event, even though the top tier of the arena was closed off to attendees, leaving an estimated 25% of it unable to be filled.
The host stadium, the University of Nevada’s Thomas & Mack Center, can fit up to 19,500.
Campaign spokespeople said they turned away another 4,000 waiting in line to enter because they were becoming ill while enduring the record-breaking 120-degree heat.
The visit marks the last stop of a series of visits for the Democratic ticket to battleground states.
In the past week, Harris and Walz visited Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, followed by Arizona and Nevada Friday — five states that could be essential in a November win. In 2020, President Biden narrowly beat Republican Donald Trump by 2.4 percentage points in Nevada.
The Las Vegas rally came on the heels of an endorsement from the Culinary Union, Nevada’s largest labor union.
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