In Las Vegas, Trump Calls Harris a ‘Copycat’ Over ‘No Tax on Tips’ Plan

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The rivals person zeroed successful connected work manufacture workers successful Nevada, a plaything authorities wherever polls amusement a choky race.

Donald J. Trump speaking astatine  a podium with U.S. flags successful  the background.
Former President Donald J. Trump, speaking astatine a edifice successful Las Vegas connected Friday, pitched his thought to exempt tips from national income taxes.Credit...Roger Kisby for The New York Times

Neil Vigdor

Former President Donald J. Trump connected Friday fumed implicit the information that erstwhile it comes to exempting tips from being taxed, helium and his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, are connected the aforesaid page.

Mr. Trump, earlier a gathering of supporters astatine a Las Vegas restaurant, complained that Ms. Harris had stolen his thought and sought to formed her arsenic an opportunist who was pandering to work manufacture workers by cribbing from 1 of his signature proposals.

“She’s a copycat,” Mr. Trump said. “She’s a flip-flopper, you know. She’s the top flip-flopper successful history. She went from communism to capitalism successful astir 2 weeks.”

A Harris run spokesperson declined to comment. This month, portion successful Las Vegas herself, Ms. Harris said she would question to end national income taxes connected tips if she were elected. Mr. Trump archetypal floated the thought successful June, and it rapidly garnered bipartisan support.

He has publically stewed implicit her clasp of the plan, particularly successful Nevada, a battleground authorities that Mr. Trump mislaid successful 2016 and 2020.

Before President Biden withdrew from the contention successful precocious July, Mr. Trump had appeared to beryllium connected a trajectory to extremity his electoral drought successful the godforsaken — wherever 1 of his hotels towers implicit the Strip. Mr. Biden, whose run called the “no taxation connected tips” overture a “wild run promise,” had been trailing Mr. Trump by an mean of 7 percent points successful Nevada.


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