Opinion

Kamala Harris is trying to pull off a fast one

August 20, 2024

Ben Weingarten (Opinion Contributor)

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Kamala Harris’ rise to become the Democratic nominee for president has been sudden and abrupt, following close behind President Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 race. While many Americans celebrated Biden’s decision after his declining health became evident, some Republicans were thrown off by the quick shift to Kamala Harris.

Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten argues that Kamala Harris is “trying to pull a fast one” on the American people.

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The following is an excerpt from the above video:

Since being swapped in and coronated as the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee, [Harris has] flip-flopped on fracking, decriminalizing so-called illegal immigration, and providing universal government health care, Medicare for all. This from one of, if not the most left-wing senators during her time in the upper chamber, and from a person who has served as the number two in arguably the most radically Leftist White House in American history.

In picking Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, she’s embraced someone with an unbelievably radical record like her own, from granting all matter of benefits to illegal aliens to whom he wants to provide a ladder to catapult over any border wall, to tampons in boys bathrooms, to the COVID snitch line showing for socialism and allowing BLM riders to set Minneapolis on fire, with Harris promoting a bail fund for the arsonists.

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Donald Trump has asked the American people if we’re better off now than we were when he was president. Perhaps the second most important question for Americans to ponder when voting starts next month is this, Vice President Harris, are you lying now, or were you lying then? It’s a question that Trump will likely have to ask of the Democrat nominee himself, given corporate media is holding the tank four and has formed a complete protective bubble around Harris. Harris, or at least Harris’s flax since she has largely been silent while letting staffers address questions about her beliefs and agenda. Since being swapped in and coronated as the Democrat party’s presidential nominee, has flip flopped on fracking, decriminalizing so called illegal immigration and providing universal government health care, Medicare for all this from one of, if not the most left wing senators during her time in the upper chamber, and from a person who has served as the number two in arguably the most radically leftist White House in American history, in picking Minnesota Governor Tim waltz as her running mate, she’s embraced someone with an unbelievably radical record like her own, from granting all matter of benefits to illegal aliens to whom he wants to provide a ladder to catapult over any border wall, to tampons and boys bathrooms to the covid Snitch line showing for socialism and allowing BLM riders to Set Minneapolis on fire with Harris promoting a bail fund for the arsonists. How can Harris square her past anti energy, pro invasion, health care system destroying policies and run from the other parts of a record that alienate 10s of millions of Normie Americans and made Joe Biden so unpopular that the party had to jettison him with the positions of candidate Kamala, there are only two possible answers. One is that Kamala Harris is the radical progressive she’s always been poised to make America San Francisco, but recognizing this would be unpalatable to American voters, that she has to lie, obfuscate and evade scrutiny about her true beliefs at all costs. Axio has laid this out explicitly. Its top editor is reporting quote, a big part of the Harris plan is to unapologetically change some of her more liberal positions and claim her White House experience helped change her mind. She’s also fine plucking popular Trump ideas, notably, no tax on tips for service and hospitality workers, popular in Nevada, one of the biggest swing states. Her bet, whatever she says in the small three month window of her snap campaign will be what sticks. Harris knows most people know little about her, so she believes she can define herself, even if it includes flip flops and Co Ops. So in other words, she’s engaging in the most cynical of politics, trying to pull a fast one on the American people and showing complete contempt for us. Axios is printing and the Harris campaign is signaling that they think Americans are idiots. The other possible answer for how Harris can change all of her politically toxic positions is that she has no positions at all. She’s willing to say or do anything at any time because she’s willing to say or do anything to gain power. That is, she’s incredibly ambitious, perhaps dangerously ambitious. Why she so badly wants power is one question This raises, as is, whether we should want someone so power hungry leading us. But another question is, how can you trust that she will stick to any of her commitments at all. She wants to break with Biden on issues on which he’s unpopular. Axios tells us that is running from the Biden Harris agenda she helped implement, but she could just as easily zag after zigging right back to the Biden Harris agenda on steroids. Were she to be elected, you’re not supposed to be able to jettison a candidate for someone who never received a primary vote, who never faced the vetting of an election. You’re not supposed to be able to run for president without sitting for interviews or posting a platform where your website is set up in such a way that it gives the impression you have to make a campaign contribution to find out what the campaign and what the candidate is actually about. You’re not supposed to be able to renounce huge swathes of your record and rebrand on the fly free of any scrutiny or criticism with the media cheerleading it, but this is the operation that the Democrat Party is currently running. They have a press that will firmly do their bidding. Only the Trump campaign ultimately can force any of this to the forefront in this election, and only the American people will be able to render judgment on whether they want to live in the kind of Banana Republic where this bonkers chicanery is treated as normal and legitimate. I.

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