On Tuesday, it was revealed that portions of Kamala Harris’ recently released "Issues" page on her campaign website were copied directly from Biden’s campaign page. 

According to The New Republic, the source code from the page has revealed that portions were copied directly from her predecessor’s campaign page. Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July after increasing pressure from his own party in the wake of June’s debate, with Biden endorsing Kamala Harris as his successor in the race.

One X user, Corrine Green, noted the Issues page had contained metadata that included language urging voters to reelect Joe Biden. This was present when links to Harris’ website were shared, displaying the line "Join our campaign to re-elect Joe Biden today" present in the description of the website. By Monday morning, the metadata appeared to have been changed.

In Harris’ newly announced policy plans, which came over a month and a half after entering the race, she doubled down on price controls on food and groceries, supported a border bill that still allowed at least 1.4 million illegal immigrants into the country, proposed a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, and outlined her $25,000 down payment program for first-time home buyers.

A poll released by the New York Times over the weekend found that 60 percent of likely voters said that the next president elected in November should represent a major departure from sitting president Joe Biden. Just 25 percent said that Harris represented this change, while 53 percent said the same of Trump.

Despite her policies being close to, or in some cases identical to Biden’s, Harris has hoped to distance herself from Biden. Her advisors told Axios in August that "she wants to break with Biden on issues on which he's unpopular." Advisors stated that Harris does not fully want to be defined by the Biden-Harris White House record, which has been marked with foreign and domestic failures. 

"A big part of the Harris plan," Axios reported at the time, "is to unapologetically change some of her more liberal positions, and claim her White House experience helped change her mind."