The elite in the Democratic Party truly have no shame.
They had already seriously insulted democracy by covering up President Joe Biden’s weaknesses for months and then handpicking his successor.
Making matters worse, Vice President Kamala Harris, their nominee, had never won a single vote in a presidential primary.
It is an ongoing insult that Harris has not given a single interview or press conference in the 24 days since she became her party’s new standard-bearer.
But the latest news from Harris’s world is really too much to handle.
Campaign insiders are now suggesting to the media that she wants to “break” with Biden’s failed stewardship of the American economy. You know, the same economy she helped run for the past four years.
In a policy speech this week, they claim she will push through her plan to cut costs, curb inflation and restore the American dream.
Well, hold your breath. Even the New York Times isn’t fooled.
In a “policy” speech this week, they claim she will roll out her plan to cut costs, tame inflation and restore the American dream. Well, hold your breath.
‘[Harris] will lay out an approach that is relatively light on detail… it will rarely deviate from Mr. Biden’s content,’ the Times reported Wednesday.
How exciting!
It is now abundantly clear that the strategy of the 2024 Harris campaign is to treat the American people like mushrooms… keeping them in the dark and feeding them junk.
Nearly 80 days before the election (and just a month after early voting started in some states), Harris still has no idea what she actually wants to do as president.
And the sad reality is that this cynical plan of silence might just work – especially if Donald Trump continues his current, unfocused campaign approach.
Every sensible Republican realizes that Trump has strayed from the straight and narrow since his speech at the Republican Party convention in July, when he delivered the longest address in history — a toss-and-turn between a scripted teleprompter and impromptu remarks.
The former president’s twists have only increased since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee.
Trump has been too busy making counterproductive comments about Harris’ race to successfully frame the story against her litany of past policy 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’ race, rather than successfully unpacking her litany of past failed policies, as he so ably did with Biden.
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Las Vegas on August 10, 2024 to speak at a campaign rally
In many key polls in swing states, he has gone from a lead to a deficit. Harris has even gained an edge on the question of who is most “trusted” to manage the American economy.
For most Republicans, the most effective line of attack against her is clear: It’s common sense versus radical nonsense.
In 2020, Harris was named the second “most politically left” senator in the 116th Congress by the nonpartisan government transparency group Gov Track.
The only senator considered more radically liberal than Harris was proud democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
When Harris unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination in 2020, she proudly advocated for banning fracking, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, abolishing the private health care system and dismantling police funding.
Now, anonymous spokespeople for her campaign claim she no longer supports any of that.
As vice president, Harris was tasked with addressing the global factors that were driving unprecedented numbers of migrants to the U.S. border.
The result has been the worst illegal immigration crisis in U.S. history, with an estimated 10 million border crossings since Biden was inaugurated.
In her role as vice president and Biden’s loyal lieutenant, Harris cast the Senate’s tie-breaking vote in February 2021 to approve the nearly $2 trillion COVID stimulus package, sending inflation skyrocketing.
Since then, prices have been a runaway freight train of misery for the American people.
If Harris’s track record proves anything, it’s that she’s a downright political opportunist.
The only senator considered more radically liberal than Harris was proud democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
As vice president, Harris was tasked with addressing the global factors that were driving unprecedented numbers of migrants to the U.S. border.
When Trump proposed eliminating the federal tax on tips for service industry workers, Harris said she would do the same, despite supporting a bill that would have allowed the IRS to crack down on those same workers.
Harris’ position on the war between Israel and Hamas is equally unclear.
As the newly appointed candidate of the Democratic Party, she ignored Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by refusing to deliver his speech at a joint session of Congress in July.
Officially, she has not broken with the Biden administration’s policy of supplying weapons to Israel to support its war on terror.
Scott Jennings is a CNN political analyst and a founding member of RunSwitch Public Relations
However, she recently met with pro-Hamas protesters and, according to activists present, said she was open to an arms embargo on the Jewish state.
Her spokesperson denied it, but how can we know the truth if Harris hasn’t been publicly questioned?
So far, the vice president has failed to explain how she went from being one of America’s most progressive senators in 2020 to a staunch moderate in 2024.
She plans to run a sheltered, sanitized campaign built on vague platitudes and little control. And the only thing standing between Harris’s ambiguous strategy and the White House so far is an ABC News debate on Sept. 10.
Trump must be as focused as ever during these 90 minutes.
His entire campaign depends on it.
Trump needs to expose Harris for the radical progressive woman she really is.
If he fails, there won’t be much time to correct the course of the race before a vote.