Democratic Congressman Urges Harris To Take Trump’s ‘Good Ideas’ And ‘Make It Happen’

Representative John Garamendi (D-CA) urged Vice President Kamala Harris to take up former President Donald Trump’s “good ideas” on business and “to push it further and to really make it happen.”

Speaking on NewsNation’s The Hill, Garamendi didn’t shy away from admitting that some of Harris’s strategies—like tax breaks and slashing regulations—are straight out of the GOP playbook. But that’s not a bad thing, he argued.

In response to host Blake Burman’s claim that part of the criticism leveled at Harris was that she might be borrowing from Trump’s economic policies, Garamandi said: “Anybody would be a fool to not take a good idea and push it further.”

The congressman pointed to Trump’s failed infrastructure promises, contrasting them with the Biden-Harris administration’s success in passing the largest infrastructure bill in American history during their first year in office.

He continued: “For four years, Trump had an infrastructure week. Every week was a new infrastructure week. At the end of four years, not one thing was done on infrastructure. Biden-Harris got into office, it’s the height of the pandemic, everything is shut down, and within the first year, the most massive infrastructure bill ever in American history, and quite possibly in the world, with the exception of China, became the law.”

He added: “So it’s how you get things done. A good idea can come from many, many places. Not too many good ideas from Trump, but when he’s got one, go with it.”

Somewhat stunned the host rounded to ask whether some of what Trump had said he’d do was a “good idea.”

Garamendi replied: “Of course! Take anybody’s idea.”

Watch above on NewsNation.