(NewsNation) — Vice President Kamala Harris has shaken the 2024 election, putting unit connected her Republican hostile since she entered the contention successful July.

Since replacing President Joe Biden atop the Democratic statesmanlike ticket, Harris has rapidly gained momentum, posing a menace to the steadfast pb erstwhile President Donald Trump held implicit the president, some nationally and successful plaything states.

Harris has since announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her moving mate, who himself has since extinguished immoderate Democratic doubts during his performance astatine the DNC.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance‘s information arsenic Trump’s vice president pits him against Walz.

Ahead of the 2024 election, NewsNation is committed to covering the issues that substance astir to voters truthful they tin marque the astir informed choices imaginable astatine the polls. Here is however the starring candidates’ policies comparison connected cardinal elector issues. You tin besides work circumstantial argumentation breakdowns for Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

• Abortion
• Border crisis
• Climate change
• Crime
• Fentanyl situation and opioid epidemic
• Inflation
• Israel-Palestine conflict
• Policing and weapon safety
• Project 2025
• Social Security
• War successful Ukraine

Abortion

Trump

• The erstwhile president wouldn’t initially say during a municipality hall whether helium supports a national termination ban.
• He called the overturning of the landmark termination rights lawsuit Roe v. Wade “a large victory” during a CNN municipality hall.
• In April 2024, helium said connected his societal media level Truth Social that it’d beryllium champion if states handled termination the mode their constituents want, adding he’s successful favour of exceptions for rape, incest and the beingness of the mother.
• Also said connected Truth Social that he “strongly” supports fertility treatments and that helium “has ne'er and volition never” advocator for restricting commencement power and different contraceptives.

Harris

• Harris is aligned with Biden successful her presumption connected abortion, going arsenic acold arsenic saying past period “everything is astatine stake” regarding women’s reproductive rights.
• The vice president is successful favour of ensuring each American women person entree to ineligible abortions.
• “Every idiosyncratic of immoderate sex should recognize that, if such a cardinal freedom such arsenic the close to marque decisions astir your ain assemblage tin beryllium taken, beryllium alert of what different freedoms whitethorn beryllium astatine stake,” Harris said successful a associated MSNBC interrogation with Hadley Duvall, an termination rights advocator from Kentucky who was raped by her stepfather arsenic a child.
• Harris falsely wrote on X that Trump would prohibition termination nationwide. She past added: “President Joe Biden and I volition bash everything successful our powerfulness to halt him and reconstruct women’s reproductive freedom.”
• Harris besides visited a Planned Parenthood session successful Minnesota successful March, describing the banning oregon dense regularisation of abortions arsenic “immoral.”
• “How situation these elected leaders judge they are successful a amended presumption to archer women what they need,” Harris said astatine the time. “We person to beryllium a federation that trusts women.”

Border crisis

Trump

• The erstwhile president would motorboat the largest deportation effort successful U.S. history, paid for with redirected subject funds, Reuters reported.
• He would reconstruct his 2019 “Remain successful Mexico” program, which required asylum-seekers astatine the U.S. borderline to hold successful Mexico portion their cases are processed.
• Trump said helium would extremity what helium called “catch and release” and alternatively detain each migrants who are caught entering the United States without authorization oregon violating different migration laws.
• He'd besides deputize the U.S. National Guard and section instrumentality enforcement to assistance with accelerated deportations, according to Reuters.
• The erstwhile president said helium would enact question bans denying introduction to radical from the Gaza Strip, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and “anywhere other that threatens our security.”
• Block communists, Marxists and socialists from entering the U.S. and nonstop deportation officers to “pro-Hamas” protests.
• End “birthright” citizenship for children calved successful the U.S. to undocumented parents.
• End Biden’s migration parole programme and rotation backmost Temporary Protected Status designations.
• Try again to extremity the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly referred to arsenic DACA.
• While helium was president, astir 450 miles of barriers were built on the Southwest border, according to the Associated Press.

Harris

• Among Republicans, Harris has the ironic moniker of “border czar,” owing to her enactment wherein she oversaw diplomacy with Mexico and the Northern Triangle arsenic a means of addressing “root causes” of migration.
• Biden gave her the responsibility of manning everything migration on the confederate borderline successful 2021, with her role, according to the White House astatine the time, to stem the accomplishment of “irregular migrants.”
• As precocious arsenic this week astatine the Republican National Convention, Republicans heavy criticized the Biden-Harris attack to the border, a hot-button contented this predetermination cycle.
• Under the Biden-Harris administration, migrants crossing into the US from Mexico deed grounds highs astatine the extremity of 2023.
• Close to 250,000 crossed during December 2023, surpassing the erstwhile precocious of 224,000 encounters successful May of 2022, besides nether the Biden-Harris watch.
• Harris announced successful March that $5.2 cardinal successful pledges from backstage companies had been made to prop up Central American communities to deter amerciable introduction to the U.S. nether her guidance.
• “The problems, of course, did not hap overnight, and the solutions volition not beryllium achieved overnight,” Harris said of the borderline astatine the time.

Climate change

Trump

• Claimed helium volition extremity the “Green New Deal atrocities” on his archetypal time if reelected. The measurement was ne'er signed into law.
• Said helium would escaped up stores of liquid golden for vigor development.
• Speed up support of earthy state pipelines into the Marcellus Shale successful Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York.
• Exit the Paris Climate Agreement again. Trump antecedently pulled the U.S. from the agreement, but Biden rejoined upon taking office.
• Fight litigation from environmentalists.

Harris

• Harris has backed the Biden administration’s clime initiatives, including authorities providing billions successful taxation credits for renewable vigor and electrical vehicles, the New York Times reported.
• “The timepiece is not conscionable ticking, it is banging,” she said past year, referencing clime change-driven disasters. She noted the medication made “the largest clime concern successful America’s history.”
• During her 2020 statesmanlike bid, Harris emphasized biology justice, addressing clime change’s effects connected mediocre and number communities. She’s continued this absorption arsenic vice president.
• In 2019, arsenic a senator, Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., projected authorities to measure biology rules’ interaction connected low-income communities. It would person created an Office of Climate and Environmental Justice Accountability and clime justness advisers successful national agencies. Harris introduced a broader mentation successful 2020. Neither measure passed, The New York Times reported.

Crime

Trump

• Move stateless encampments retired of cities.
• Give constabulary much authority, deploy the subject to combat the nation’s cause occupation and enforce the decease punishment for convicted cause dealers.
• Deliver grounds backing to prosecute and retrain constabulary officers, fortify qualified immunity and summation penalties for assaults connected instrumentality enforcement.
• Send national prosecutors and the National Guard into high-crime communities, according to his run website.
• As president, Trump granted pardons to 73 radical and commuted the sentences of an further 70. That includes erstwhile unit members and advisers specified arsenic Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Stephen K. Bannon and George Papadopoulos.

Harris

• Harris, successful April, hosted world tv prima Kim Kardashian astatine the White House to sermon transgression justness betterment aft the Biden medication granted clemency to radical convicted of nonviolent cause offenses.
• The U.S. incarcerates much radical than immoderate different country. About 1 successful 5 of those 1.9 cardinal radical are down bars for a drug-related offense. Black and Latino radical are disproportionately incarcerated, and cause instrumentality betterment has the broadest enactment among young voters. Black, Latino and young voters thin to favour Democrats.
• “Everybody makes mistakes, and for some, that mightiness emergence to the level of being a crime,” Harris said astatine the White House. “But is it not the motion of a civilian nine that we let radical a mode to gain their mode backmost and springiness them the enactment and the resources they request to bash that?”
• Harris’ grounds arsenic California lawyer general, however, drew the ire of galore progressives during her 2020 bid for the presidency.
• During her 7 years arsenic a territory lawyer and past six arsenic lawyer general, she defended the currency bail strategy successful a brace of national tribunal cases, shifting people lone weeks earlier she entered the Senate.
• As a statesmanlike campaigner successful 2020, she pledged a wholesale overhaul of the country’s transgression justness system, arguing for marijuana legalization, bail betterment and a moratorium connected the decease penalty.

Vice President Harris volition look disconnected with Republican nominee erstwhile President Trump this November for the White House. (Associated Press)

Fentanyl situation and opioid epidemic

Trump

• “Impose a full naval embargo connected cartels.” 
• Designate cartels arsenic overseas violent organizations.
• Order the Department of Defense to “inflict maximum damage” connected cartel enactment and operations.
• Seek decease punishment eligibility for cartel members and traffickers.
• Permanently designate fentanyl arsenic a federally controlled substance.
• Threaten China with “a steep price” unless it works to extremity the export of fentanyl’s chemic precursors.
• Create partnerships to promote companies to supply occupation opportunities and skills grooming to radical recovering from addiction.
• Expand national enactment for faith-based counseling, attraction and betterment programs.
• Promised household permission to attraction for relatives trying to flooded addiction.

Harris

• In May 2024, the Biden-Harris administration announced the support of implicit $1.5 cardinal successful authorities oregon tribal opioid effect backing to code the overdose crisis.
• Harris gathered authorities attorneys wide from crossed the state astatine the White House successful July 2023 to sermon fentanyl and illicit drugs successful America. 
• “We each admit and person joined unneurotic contiguous due to the fact that we are facing a nationalist wellness crisis, and it also, therefore, is an contented that indispensable person a effect that addresses the underlying nationalist wellness concerns that are some astir addiction and treatment,” Harris said.
• Harris wants to summation entree to and the affordability of naloxone, which reverses overdoses, with the vice president calling it “the quality betwixt beingness oregon death.”

Inflation and economy

Trump

• Promised “lower taxes, bigger paychecks, and much jobs for American workers” by enacting universal baseline tariffs that “reward home production” and taxation overseas companies.
• Said helium would little involvement rates.
• Claimed to person achieved the lowest unemployment complaint successful 50 years — 3.5% with 6.4 cardinal added jobs earlier the pandemic.
• During his presidency, national indebtedness held by the nationalist roseate from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion, influenced by Trump’s taxation cuts, peculiarly his slashes to the firm taxation rate, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck project.
• Trump is proposing taxation cuts for large businesses and the affluent to spur investment.
• He said his taxation cuts would garner 3% growth, a milestone helium did not scope successful his archetypal term.
• Trump has projected wide tariffs to promote home manufacturing.
• He has projected nary taxes connected tips oregon Social Security income.

Harris

• Shortly aft taking bureau arsenic vice president for Biden, the administration signed the American Rescue Plan, a $2 trillion stimulus bundle that delivered checks to Americans, boosted unemployment security benefits and expanded the kid taxation credit.
• Inflation peaked astatine a four-decade precocious of 9% successful summertime 2022 but has since receded to astir 3.5%.
• Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act successful August 2022, which invested successful cleanable vigor that the White House estimates created 117,000 jobs and volition trim Americans’ vigor costs by arsenic overmuch arsenic 9% by 2030.
• Harris has said ostentation was a precocious precedence for the administration. “The President and our administration’s astir apt highest precedence is bringing down the terms of state and outgo of living,” Harris said.
• During her clip arsenic a senator, Harris tried to get a measure passed where tax credits up to $6,000 would beryllium disposable for middle- and low-income households.
• Harris has besides been a beardown proponent of forgiving pupil debt, spearheading the Biden administration’s determination to abolish indebtedness for respective 100 1000 students astatine Corinthian Colleges.
• In 2017, she co-sponsored Bernie Sanders’ connection for escaped assemblage for middle-class students astatine four-year nationalist schools and each who attended two-year institutions.
• Harris wants to rise taxes connected the affluent and large businesses to money investments successful lodging and taxation credits for parents.
• She has projected much fiscal assistance for first-time homebuyers and expanded taxation credits for parents.
• She besides wants to chopped taxes for tiny businesses and entrepreneurs.
• Harris wants to region taxes connected tips.

Israel-Palestine conflict

Trump

• Hasn’t announced plans regarding the Israel-Hamas warfare if reelected successful 2024.
• Suggested the war will conscionable person to “play out.”
• Said during an October Fox News interview, “We request to support Israel. There is nary choice.”
• Has positioned himself arsenic a beardown state to Israel portion being captious of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
• Told Israel’s quality agencies to “step up their game.”

Harris

• Harris called for an “immediate cease-fire” successful Gaza successful March, describing the concern arsenic a “humanitarian catastrophe,” the New York Times reported.
• She said Hamas’ menace to Israel “must beryllium eliminated” but added that “too galore guiltless Palestinians person been killed.”
• She opposed an Israeli penetration of Rafah, confederate Gaza, wherever implicit a cardinal radical had fled. “I person studied the maps. There’s obscurity for those folks to go,” she said, noting astir 1.5 cardinal radical were determination aft being told to go.
• Harris has repeatedly expressed enactment for a two-state solution.

Policing and weapon safety

Trump

• During his archetypal statesmanlike campaign, Trump positioned himself arsenic a defender of the Second Amendment.
• A Trump-era prohibition on bump stocks was overturned by the Supreme Court successful June 2024, which said the Trump medication overstepped erstwhile it banned the rapid-fire weapon attachments.
• After the May 24, 2022, Uvalde, Texas, shooting astatine Robb Elementary School, Trump called for “drastically” changing the nation’s attack to intelligence wellness and “a top-to-bottom information overhaul. astatine schools crossed this country” but dismissed calls for further firearm restrictions, AP reported.
• Trump vowed astatine an event sponsored by the National Rifle Association (NRA) successful February to undo Biden-era weapon restrictions if reelected.

Harris

• Harris took a pugnacious basal connected policing successful the aftermath of George Floyd’s execution astatine the hands of Minneapolis police. She co-sponsored authorities successful the Senate that would’ve banned constabulary from utilizing chokeholds and no-knock warrants, acceptable a nationalist use-of-force modular and created a nationalist constabulary misconduct registry, among different things. It would person besides reformed the qualified immunity strategy that shields officers from liability.
• The database successful the authorities included practices Harris did not vocally combat to betterment portion starring California’s Department of Justice. And portion she present wants autarkic investigations of constabulary shootings, she didn’t enactment a 2015 California measure that would person required her bureau to instrumentality connected specified cases.
• In June, arsenic vice president, Harris said that much needed to beryllium done astatine the national level to forestall weapon unit during a run halt successful Maryland.
• Harris, aft high-profile shootings successful Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, successful 2022, called for a prohibition connected assault-style weapons.

Project 2025

Trump

• Trump has previously disavowed the arguable project, posting connected his societal media tract that helium has “no idea” who is down Project 2025 and knows “nothing” astir it, but dozens of radical who worked intimately with him and helped signifier his medication are progressive successful the plan.
• “I person nary thought who is down it. I disagree with immoderate of the things they’re saying and immoderate of the things they’re saying are perfectly ridiculous and abysmal,” he wrote. “Anything they do, I privation them luck, but I person thing to bash with them.”
• Trump’s run has antecedently said helium sets his ain priorities and that extracurricular groups don’t talk for him.
• However, Trump's moving mate, Vance, appears to person adjacent ties with the radical who had a manus successful penning the conservative argumentation playbook.

Harris

• One of Harris’ main points of attack connected the Republican summons is Project 2025, which she warns volition spell into effect should Trump get reelected. Harris has seized connected the plan, linking it directly to Trump.
• Harris has pushed backmost against Trump’s denials, saying helium volition instrumentality the blimpish program “hatched by radical who utilized to enactment for Donald Trump that focuses connected the archetypal 180 days” connected her run website. 
• Harris has spoken astir Project 2025 galore times some portion campaigning for Biden and aft she became the Democratic nominee for president. 
• Her run website has a leafage dedicated to Project 2025 calling it “Trump’s program to instrumentality your power, your power and your money.” “Donald Trump’s plans for a afloat authorities takeover person been exposed,” it reads, adding “his Project 2025 docket would portion distant our freedoms.” 
• At a run rally successful Wisconsin, Harris said Project 2025 was a “plan to weaken the mediate class.”
• Harris’ moving mate, Walz, besides has spoken retired against the blimpish guidebook. “Don’t judge him erstwhile he’s playing dumb astir this Project 2025,” Walz said astatine a Glendale, Arizona, rally. “He knows precisely what it volition do. They are not playing. They wrote their program out.”
• Harris has presented a diametrically other presumption connected the issues Project 2025 aims to restructure. 

Social Security

Trump

• Told Republicans successful Congress not to chopped “a azygous penny” from Medicare oregon Social Security.
• Later made comments suggesting he was open to cuts to Medicare and Social Security; his squad walked these backmost and claimed the remarks were taken retired of context.
• Encouraged Republicans to absorption their backing cuts connected areas of “waste, fraud and abuse” successful summation to programs dealing with overseas aid, immigration, clime alteration and LGBTQ rights, Reuters reported.
• Said successful a campaign statement he would trim the outgo of medicine drugs and wellness security premiums.

Harris

• When she was a U.S. legislator for California, she supported the Social Security Expansion Act, which is present championed by leaders including Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., CNBC reported.
• As vice president, successful Biden’s 2024 fund proposal, the medication called for “protecting and strengthening” Social Security but offered fewer specifics connected reforms to the program, CNBC reported.
• During the 2020 campaign, the medication projected raising taxes connected those making much than $400,000 to enactment up Social Security but mostly dropped the thought aft taking office, Politico reported.
• The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare has endorsed Democrats’ Social Security plans, which telephone for applying further taxes connected affluent individuals with incomes implicit $400,000, CNBC reported.

War successful Ukraine

Trump

• Called for a cease-fire in an authoritative run statement.
• Said helium could “solve the struggle successful a azygous day.”
• Trump: “Every time this proxy conflict successful Ukraine continues, we hazard planetary war.”
• More mostly suggests overhauling the State Department, the “defense bureaucracy” and quality services to occurrence who helium called members of a “deep state.”

Harris

• Harris announced that the U.S. would donate implicit $1.5 cardinal to Ukraine, with funds coming from the State Department and USAID.
• The fiscal assistance volition assistance infrastructure, security, vigor and exile assistance.
• Harris has been successful lockstep with Biden astir helping Ukraine amid its warfare with Russia.
• During the June acme regarding bid successful Ukraine, Harris spoke astir the American committedness to the Eastern European nation.

NewsNation spouse The Hill contributed to this report.