BALTIMORE – Kamala Harris in the final week of the campaign has tried to cement one of the biggest differences between her and Donald Trump, often saying that he has a list of enemies and she has a list of things to do.

But some of the moderate Republicans he is trying to persuade, along with the GOP faithful, wonder why he failed to finish part of that to-do list over the past four years. She is also worried detailed plans It would put the country in danger.

Harris recently shared a list of 14 priorities that includes tax cuts, lower prescription drug costs, a bipartisan border security bill, affordable housing and the legalization of recreational marijuana, which has drawn praise from Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, who in a video posted recently on X called Harris “the leader we need.” at the moment”.

However, Harris’ proposed tax deduction of up to $50,000 for small business startups worries moderate Republicans like Harold Mendelson.

“That’s a little scary,” said Mendelson, who lives in Baltimore County. “She wants to lower taxes on one hand and give away money on the other. “It’s not logical.”

He describes himself as a Larry Hogan Republican who would never vote for Trump, but Mendelson said he can’t vote for Harris either.

“I’m in the middle,” he said. “No one really represents me.”

J. Matthew McGlone, a moderate Republican voter from Towson, said he finds Harris’ to-do list to be as sparse as most of her interview answers.

“There is some merit, but not much,” he said. “She is all joy, hope and future without any substance.”

McGlone thought the Biden-Harris stimulus program was “inflationary and put too much money into the system.”

“I don’t have a lot of faith in their kind of spending,” he said.

Harris and Trump are “two bad choices,” which is why McGlone said he voted early and wrote in Nikki Haley.

Kim Klacik, the Republican candidate to succeed retiring Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger in the Baltimore County-based district, said she is primarily concerned about Harris’ agenda on housing, energy costs and immigration.

Klacik, a longtime Trump supporter, said she doesn’t believe Harris, or the bipartisan bill she supported that died in Congress earlier this year, are strong enough to control the flow of undocumented immigrants through of the border.

“And it’s not because I know everything, because I don’t know, but I would say because the border patrol union came out and endorsed Trump, I think that probably tells us a lot more about the story,” said Klacik, who has traveled to the border during his campaign. “But I’m not going to pretend that going to the Rio Grande a couple of times makes me an expert because I’m definitely not.”

Klacik said she is also “very concerned about her opportunity economy,” a term Harris uses to refer to her economic platform. Specifically, he said he believes giving new home buyers $25,000 for a down payment, as he has proposed, could backfire.

“If they default on their loans, and God forbid, but there’s probably a reason they don’t have that $25,000, right?” Klacik said. “I think this will lead to a situation where we end up bailing out the banks once again. “That’s not something I don’t think anyone wants to see, no matter what side of the aisle they sit on.”

House Minority Leader Jason Buckel said he doesn’t understand the delay.

“My initial reaction is why hasn’t the Biden-Harris administration done any of these things, some of which are objectively positive, in the last four years, including two in which they had full Democratic control of Congress?” said.

“Instead, they enacted policies that exacerbated inflation, strangled our energy independence, and apparently focused on far-left policies that divided Americans rather than unifying them,” he said.

Asked to respond to Harris’ to-do list, Maryland Republican Party Chairwoman Nicole Beus Harris emailed a succinct sentence: “Why haven’t you done that in the last three and a half years? “

Kamala Harris To-Do List:

•Cut taxes for more than 100 million Americans;

•Strengthen Medicare and protect Social Security;

•Work with the private sector to build 3 million new homes to increase housing supply and reduce costs;

•Pass the bipartisan border security bill to strengthen and secure our border;

•Restore reproductive freedom;

•Legalize recreational marijuana;

• Limit the cost of insulin to $35 per month and prescription drug costs to $2,000 per year for all Americans;

• Expand Medicare to cover home care for seniors and people with disabilities;

•Protect and strengthen the Affordable Care Act;

•Promote common sense gun safety laws to protect Americans from gun violence;

•Invest in American manufacturing and clean energy;

•Expand the initial small business tax deduction by 10 times to $50,000;

•Give families a $6,000 tax credit during the first year of their children’s lives;

•And pass the first federal ban on corporate price gouging in food and groceries.

—Reporters Jeff Barker and Sam Janesch contributed to this report.

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