So far Vice President Harris has been running a tightly scripted campaign that puts the clamps on her deep thoughts. Adjusted for circumstances, her campaign resembles then candidate Biden’s basement campaign of 2020. In Biden’s case, the basement literally kept him out of view. In Harris’ case, the campaign is to keep her formerly expressed public policy views out of view. David Deavel expands on my thoughts in the AMAC column “Media Lets Kamala Do Another Basement Campaign.”
Harris’s public policy views cannot withstand scrutiny. Although they have essentially reflect the orthodoxy of the Democratic Party, they are stupid and unpopular. Rich Lowry’s column “Kam’s sociopathic lies” demonstrates how she camouflages them in scripted settings. Her nascent campaign doesn’t seem to have an answer ready to hand. Thus the basement campaign.
CNN: Kamala supported Defund the Police, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, eliminating private insurance, and a fracking ban — now her campaign is trying to walk it back.
Sen. Laphonza Butler: "She's a human being!"
(Kamala has NOT disavowed any it — only her campaign) pic.twitter.com/FlGvlG3GXw
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 4, 2024
Has Harris made a single intelligent, perceptive, or interesting comment in the course of her political career? Since her election as vice president, she has routinely achieved brain-damaging vacuity when speaking without a script.
At the event welcoming the return of the American prisoner/hostages from Russia, Harris made her first unscripted remarks since the Democrats swapped out Biden for Harris:
This is an extraordinary day, and, um, I’m very thankful for our president and what he has done over his entire career but in particular as it relates to these families and these individuals—what he has been able to do to bring the allies together on many issues but in particular this one. This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances.
That’s what she said. The Free Beacon reported that the Harris campaign cleaned up the transcript to conceal the characteristic Kamala word salad.
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