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The first bit is misleading, as Harris supports doubling the minimum wage to $15 for now https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2024/10/23/harris-backs-15-minimum-wage-in-fight-with-trump-over-pay/ while the other guy wants to leave it at $7.25. And I suspect $17 is reachable in the future too, https://www.commondreams.org/news/kamala-harris-minimum-wage - going from $15 to $17 is a much smaller jump than going from $7.25 to $17 after all
Also, Harris did in the past have plans for universal healthcare - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-policy-positions-president-2024/ (without eliminating private healthcare, but this is doable, a good example being the Netherlands - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/17/21046874/netherlands-universal-health-insurance-private ) while the other guy tried to repeal the ACA (getting rid of what little we had).
Harris wanted to ban fracking in the past, https://apnews.com/article/fracking-pennsylvania-president-campaign-donald-trump-kamala-harris-104f3f051df4d28e4645f05051eb6cff , so convincing to go to lower fracking in the future seems like an easier deal.
On police reform, Harris seemed to support this back in 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-praised-defund-the-police-movement-in-june-2020/index.html so might be easier to convince to readopt this position in the future.
It's technically true that neither candidate supports the positions you are pushing for, but it's clear that one of them is much closer to you than the other in terms of distance. The better candidate from this point of view is obvious.