CNN anchor says Harris' price control plan 'sounds' like a 'ploy'

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CNN anchor Abby Phillip appeared skeptical of one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ first economic policy proposals on Thursday.

During the segment, the host read aloud one commentator’s criticism of the price control proposal – that it was meant to pander to "economically illiterate" voters –and appeared to agree that it was a way to get cheap votes from those who don’t understand how the economy works.

"Is this just a ploy? Because it sounds kind of like it," Phillip asked her guests, which included Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., Democratic strategist Keith Boykin and Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson.

The Harris campaign announced on Wednesday that she would institute a "federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries" as president in an attempt to stop "big corporations" from taking advantage of consumers.

Phillip introduced the topic, stating, "One of the things that we learned about her policy that she’s going to roll out is a ban — support for a ban on price gouging. Now, I think reasonable people would ask, what does that mean? What does that really mean, and how is the government going to be involved in it?"