The Democratic Party elites are truly shameless.
They had already committed a flagrant affront to democracy by covering up President Joe Biden’s illness for months and then hand-picking his successor.
It was even worse that Vice President Kamala Harris, his anointed candidate, had never won a single vote in a presidential primary.
And it is a constant insult that Harris has yet to appear for a single interview or press conference in the 24 days she has been her party’s new standard-bearer.
But the latest news from the Harris world is really too much to digest.
Campaign insiders are now suggesting to the media that she wants to “break” with Biden’s failed management of the U.S. economy. You know, the same economy she helped steer for the past four years.
In a “political” speech this week, he claims to be laying out his plan to cut costs, control inflation and restore the American dream.
Well, don’t hold your breath. Even the New York Times isn’t fooled.
In a “political” speech this week, he claims he will present his plan to cut costs, control inflation and restore the American dream. Well, don’t hold your breath.
“(Harris) will present a relatively light approach on details… rarely distancing herself from Mr. Biden on substance,” the Times reported Wednesday.
How exciting!
It’s now abundantly clear that the Harris 2024 campaign strategy is to treat the American people like mushrooms… keep them in the dark and feed them garbage.
With nearly 80 days until Election Day (and just a month until early voting begins in some states), Harris has yet to reveal even a hint of what she really wants to do as president.
And the sad reality is that this cynical plan of silence could work. Especially if Donald Trump continues with his current unfocused approach to his campaign.
Every sensible Republican recognizes that Trump has been off topic since his speech at the Republican National Convention in July, when he delivered the longest speech in history, rambling between a teleprompter script and off-the-cuff remarks.
The former president’s ramblings have only increased since Harris became the Democratic nominee.
Trump has been too busy making counterproductive comments about Harris’s career, rather than successfully framing the narrative against her litany of past political failures, as he so skillfully did with Biden. If the polls are any indication, Trump’s current tactics aren’t working.
Trump has been too busy making counterproductive comments about Harris’s career, rather than successfully framing the narrative against her litany of past political failures, as he so expertly did with Biden.
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak at a campaign rally on August 10, 2024 in Las Vegas
He has gone from leading to losing in many of the major swing-state polls, with Harris even gaining an advantage on the question of who is more “trustworthy” to handle the U.S. economy.
For most Republicans, the most effective line of attack against it is obvious: common sense versus radical absurdity.
In 2020, Harris was ranked as the second “most politically left-wing” senator in the 116th Congress by the nonpartisan government transparency group Gov Track.
The only senator rated as more radically liberal than Harris was proud democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
When Harris unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party nomination in 2020, as a proud progressive, she advocated for banning fracking, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, eliminating private healthcare and defunding the police.
Now, anonymous spokespeople for her campaign say she no longer supports any of that.
As vice president, Harris has been tasked with alleviating the global factors driving unprecedented numbers of migrants to the U.S. border.
The result was the worst illegal immigration crisis in U.S. history, and roughly 10 million border crossings since Biden took office.
As vice president and Biden’s loyal lieutenant, Harris cast the deciding vote in the Senate in February 2021 to pass the nearly $2 trillion COVID stimulus bill that sent inflation soaring.
Since then, prices have been a runaway freight train of misery for the American people.
If Harris’s record shows anything, it’s that she’s a true political opportunist.
The only senator rated as more radically liberal than Harris was proud democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
As vice president, Harris has been tasked with alleviating the global factors driving unprecedented numbers of migrants to the U.S. border.
When Trump proposed eliminating federal tip taxes on service workers, Harris said she would do the same despite backing a bill that allowed the IRS to crack down on those same workers.
Harris’s position on the war between Israel and Hamas is equally confusing.
As a new Democratic candidate, she snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by refusing to preside over his address to a joint session of Congress in July.
Officially, he has not broken with the Biden administration’s policy of providing arms to Israel in support of its war on terror.
Scott Jennings is a CNN political analyst and founding partner of RunSwitch Public Relations.
And yet she recently met with Hamas-sympathising protesters and, according to activists present, said she was open to imposing an arms embargo on the Jewish state.
Her spokesperson denied it, but without a public questioning of Harris, how can we know the truth?
So far, the vice president has not explained her “evolution” from one of the most progressive senators in the United States in 2020 to a determined moderate in 2024.
Her intention is to run a sheltered, sanitized campaign, based on vague platitudes and little scrutiny. And the only thing standing between Harris’s deceptive strategy and the White House so far is a debate on ABC News on September 10.
Trump must be as focused during these 90 minutes as he has ever been in his life.
His entire campaign depends on it.
Trump must expose Harris as the radical progressive she really is.
If he falters, there won’t be much time to correct the course of the race before the votes are cast.