NORTH HAMPTON, N.H. – Vice President Kamala Harris heads to swing state New Hampshire on Wednesday in her 2024 showdown with former President Donald Trump, as she aims to spell out more of her economic vision for the nation.
The vice president will use an event at Throwback Brewery, a popular brewery and eatery in New Hampshire’s Seacoast, to propose a tenfold-expansion of a new small business tax deduction and announce that she aims for 25 million applications for small businesses during the first term of a Harris presidency.
However, the trip to New Hampshire, a down-ballot general election battleground that Democrats have won in five straight presidential contests but remains competitive in White House races, is also seen as a chance for Harris to ease any remaining hard feelings from the Democratic Party’s move to upend New Hampshire from its traditional role holding the first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
The plan Harris is proposing would expand the current …