Roll Tape: Radical Leftist Kamala Harris, in Her Own Words
The theme of my piece yesterday was that Republicans shouldn't get too bogged down over how to run a successful campaign against a Democratic ticket led by Kamala Harris. The playbook is pretty simple: Showcase her high-level complicity in the outrageous deception about Joe Biden's condition, highlight her shared responsibility for failed and unpopular Biden-Harris policies, and make every swing voter aware of her truly radical leftist agenda – likely in reverse order. On policy, Donald Trump is the moderate in this race; Harris is the extremist. What's useful to her opponents is that Harris publicly and often ostentatiously embraced every far-left fantasy under the sun during her failed 2020 presidential campaign, which died in 2019 before a single vote was cast, due to lack of support. She was trying to run in the hard-left 'lane,' alongside the likes of socialist Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Nobody pursuing that route to the Democratic nomination wanted to be out-flanked to their left, so they ended up embracing reckless and radical ideas that are anathema to sensible, middle-of-the-road voters.
It was that exact fear that drove Democrats to coalesce around Joe Biden, resuscitating his campaign in South Carolina. Biden marketed himself as a grandfatherly figure who was moderate, unifying, and normalcy-minded. But he governed closer to the way that Harris et al campaigned, and the country is much worse off for it. Kamala Harris is dramatically to the left of Biden – and the country. Harris is going to try to convince a sliver of swing voters in key states that she's not too extreme to be president, and that Trump is scarier. Her own words and record belie that case. Indeed, prior to joining the Biden ticket and administration, Harris worked to become the most left-wing Senator in the entire chamber:
Number 100 out of 100. She ventured further out onto that limb than Bernie Sanders. Harris is on the record about all of it, often on camera. These aren't grainy, dated-looking pieces of footage from decades past. They're very recent. She looks and sounds the same. Here she is, in her own words. Biden's Border Czar (and despite the shameless revisionism happening at the moment, that's exactly what she has been, resulting in a record-shattering tidal wave of illegal immigration) supported eliminating and 'reimagining' the ICE enforcement agency, de-criminalizing illegal immigration, and forcing taxpayers to fund illegal immigrants' healthcare plans. All of these positions would have made the breathtaking crisis over which she's presided significantly worse. She apparently believes she hasn't quite done enough damage yet: …
Guy Benson | July 24, 2024 10:01 AM
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