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Kamala Harris has an extended digital historical past – what we used to name a paper path – that depicts her as an uber-liberal.
That’s hardly shocking, since for many of her profession – from prosecutor to state lawyer normal to senator – she wanted to enchantment solely to her left-wing base in royal blue California.
However because the Democratic nominee, Harris sooner or later must clarify, or clarify away, a few of these previous positions that won’t play effectively in a decent nationwide election, the place a collection of polls present her in statistical ties with Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin – and up 6 factors in Minnesota.
The Trump camp, the place the previous president known as Harris a “bum,” amongst different epithets, and boasted about mispronouncing her identify, is surfacing a few of her biggest liberal hits. However the mainstream press has what influential blogger Andrew Sullivan calls “amnesia,” writing that whereas she would possibly even win, “Harris is without doubt one of the weakest and wokest Democratic candidates there may be. She can’t credibly enchantment to the middle after such extreme-left posturing.”
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Donald Trump’s operating mate JD Vance and VP Kamala Harris. (Getty Pictures)
So if and when the Harris Honeymoon wears off, that’s the vp’s problem. She has to inform voters why she not holds these positions, if that’s the case. Perhaps it’s as a result of she “advanced.” Perhaps it’s as a result of she was largely representing San Francisco on the time. Perhaps her time as VP has modified her outlook. However she will’t merely let it slide.
Even the sympathetic press will recover from its amnesia ultimately.
Some examples: Throughout the BLM riots in the summertime of 2020, after George Floyd’s homicide, Harris helped promote a bail fund to get the criminals out of jail.
She stated in a single interview: “They’re not going to let up and they need to not. And we must always not.”
Harris stated in one other interview: “It’s outdated, and it’s truly fallacious and backward to assume that extra law enforcement officials will create extra security.”
And through her 2020 marketing campaign she stated: “Personal prisons are getting cash off the incarceration and struggling of human beings. One in every of my first acts of enterprise as president might be to start phasing out detention facilities and personal prisons.”
Throughout the identical marketing campaign, Harris favored Medicare for All – a Bernie favourite –whereas acknowledging that will abolish personal medical health insurance. Joe Biden refused to go that far left.
Harris additionally promised to ban fracking – however has backed off that by way of an aide’s feedback.
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When the media instantaneously switched their allegiance from Biden (after all he can serve one other 4 years!) to Harris (she’s a younger, contemporary voice!), they rapidly shaped a defensive squad.
A number of prime information organizations tried to debunk the notion that she’d ever been named border czar. Essentially the most embarrassing case was Axios, which stated that “the Trump marketing campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the ‘border czar’ title — which she by no means truly had.”
Besides that in 2021, Axios stated: “Harris, appointed by Biden as border czar…”
(Axios up to date its story.)
It’s true that it was simply journalistic shorthand, and that Harris was assigned to work on the foundation causes of unlawful immigration, and did work diplomatically with Mexico and Guatemala. However why deny that she had that unofficial title?
Those that name the vp a DEI decide justify it by saying Biden had basically promised to select a Black girl.
One visitor on FOX Enterprise went far decrease by evaluating Harris to the Hawk-Tuah woman. (It includes a sexual act. Google it if it’s good to.)
Trump, in the meantime, has accused Harris of engineering a “coup.” (No person ran towards her.) He additionally stated Jews ought to have their heads examined in the event that they vote for the Democrats (Kamala, after all, is married to a Jewish man).
President Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, about his choice to drop his Democratic presidential reelection bid. (Evan Vucci, Pool by way of AP)
The previous president might have lowered expectations by calling Harris “dumb as a rock,” given the virtually flawless execution of her first week.
I get the impression that Trump continues to be attempting to determine tips on how to run towards the 59-year-old Harris. (The Washington Submit has a pleasant TikTok on how Donna Brazile and different allies spent weeks planning a Kamala candidacy in case Biden bowed out.)
Now distinction that with the media’s remedy of JD Vance, the place no older comment is deemed too small to be resurrected.
The Harris group is attempting to color each Trump and Vance as bizarre, with a press release referring to his “bizarre and excessive views.” The Trump camp is attempting to depict Harris as bizarre. The entire thing is, uh, very unusual.
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Vance’s largest controversy is his 2021 Fox interview saying {that a} “childless cat girl,” naming Harris amongst others, doesn’t have a “direct stake” in society and are depressing in their very own lives. He has broadened that to incorporate childless media individuals.
The remarks obtained him right into a spat with Jennifer Aniston, which isn’t precisely the place you need to be – and introduced him a scolding by the Wall Avenue Journal editorial web page.
At first, the Ohio senator informed Megyn Kelly he was being sarcastic and loves cats.
On Sunday, Fox host Trey Gowdy, a former GOP congressman, informed Vance that George Washington and James Madison had been amongst those that had no organic kids.
“Should you take a look at what the left has completed,” stated Vance. “They’ve radically taken this out of context and, in reality, aggressively lied about what I’ve stated. What I do assume is true, Trey, and this goes to the guts of what I used to be speaking about three years in the past in these feedback, but it surely’s going to be one thing I proceed to speak about, is that the left has more and more change into explicitly anti-child and anti-family.
Former President Trump shakes palms with Sen. JD Vance throughout the first day of the 2024 Republican Nationwide Conference on the Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
“They’ve inspired younger households to not have kids in any respect due to issues over local weather change. They’ve instructed that individuals who do have kids are in some way being egocentric after I assume being a mum or dad is definitely probably the most selfless factor that you are able to do, and once more, actually does remodel your perspective.
“So this isn’t a criticism. It was by no means a criticism, Trey, of all people with out kids.”
Harris, by the way in which, has been deeply concerned in elevating her husband Doug Emhoff’s kids — so says a press release from Doug’s ex-wife.
That is, with out query, probably the most weird marketing campaign in American historical past – and will effectively activate perceptions of weirdness. But it surely certain looks as if there’s a double commonplace, given the media consensus that Trump is a hazard to democracy.
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Footnote: With Trump backing off a debate or debates with Harris for now –claiming he’s nonetheless undecided who the nominee might be – it’s essential to recollect one factor.
Trump negotiated these phrases with Joe Biden, accepting Biden’s phrases. Now he has each proper to renegotiate with Harris as a result of she abruptly grew to become the brand new nominee. Fox Information has pitched a debate in September after Trump rejected ABC as biased. I don’t know if any debates will occur, however the former president has each proper to work out a brand new deal.
By the way in which, it was Biden who insisted on an early debate with Trump so he may shake up the marketing campaign. It was the start of the tip. Figuring out what we all know now, how may his group have despatched him on the market?
Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel’s MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). Primarily based in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in July 2013 and often seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and different packages.
