August 5, 2024
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In the last weeks since President Joe Biden made the inevitable choice to step aside and Vice President Kamala Harris has become the presumptive Democratic nominee, and gained accolades by bypassing an open convention, the democratic response has been significant.
Democrat donors have given a sigh of relief and opened their wallets raising a boatload of money. Black women, who are pushing Harris as black have been organizing calls with white Karens, and black men supporting Harris are stepping up. At the end of the day, it will not matter if Harris is seen as black, indian, biracial, or a woman.
American ultimately will vote on economics and sovereignty and against policies that hurt their wallets and they will be voting on issues that are not going to disappear in less than a 100 days.
Harris' final test will be whether Biden’s negative numbers hurt her candidacy. It is hard to separate a vice-president from the boss when the negative numbers are high and Biden's negative numbers are not limited to his age alone.
A good portion of Americans think Biden’s leadership and policies have been headed in the wrong direction. Many do not like Trump’s personality, but many prospered during Trump’s administration.
Harris not only took some liberal positions during her 2020 presidential campaign, but after she dropped out of the 2020 presidential campaign and before she was asked to serve as vice-president on Biden’s ticket, she was not shy of making her liberal views further known.
Trump is now painting Harris as the “number one most radical left democrat in the entire Senate.” Whether or not, that holds time will only tell. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has begun to label Harris as a flip-flopper.
“It's a classic bait-and-switch—but Kamala's years of support for the farthest-left policies can't be masked when she's on the record repeatedly defending them,” says the RNC.
So here are some issues that may cause some problems for Harris' campaign:
Decriminalizing illegal immigration
In March 2021, President Joe Biden tasked Harris as “border czar” to tackle illegal immigration.
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday attacked Vice President Kamala Harris's on CBS as Biden's "border czar," and said “she failed miserably." He has predicted that Harris will encourage more illegals to come to the U.S. if elected.
"Whether she likes the name ‘border czar’ or not, Kamala Harris was put in charge directly by Joe Biden to be in charge of the border and illegal immigration into the United States and she has failed miserably," Abbott said.
Abbott also criticized Harris for advocating the decriminalization of illegal border crossings and for free healthcare for illegal immigrants.
These comments, Abbott said, were "a magnet to more illegal immigrants."
During a 2019 Democratic primary debate in Miami, Harris raised her hand when the moderators asked the candidates if they would be in favor of decriminalizing border crossings.
Harris also said she was in favor of providing illegal immigrants with taxpayer-funded healthcare.
On Biden’s first day in office, the president reversed many of Trump’s immigration-related executive orders.
Recently, Biden implemented new executive orders that restricted asylum claims to reduce border crossings outraging the progressives in the democratic party.
Now, Harris’ campaign is trying to convince voters that she supports a secure border.
“I think at this point … the policies that are … having a real impact on ensuring that we have security and order at our border are policies that will continue,” her campaign manager told CBS News.
But, that argument may prove a little too late.
A country without a strict border policies with no way of checking if criminals are entering the country, no followup for the placement of unaccompanied children, and alarming economic impact of the influx of illegal immigrants in major cities from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York and rural areas from Wisconsin to Maryland and Tennessee have proven to be an economic strain on social services locally in these sanctuary cities and towns.
By May 2021, Harris had turned to the World Economic Forum and corporations calling for more investment in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, but three years later, no matter what actions have taken place, around 10 million illegal immigrants have taken to the Darien Gap and hopped on the Mexican beast train to flood the U.S. southern border in unprecedented numbers. The latest wave of immigrants heading north hopes to arrive before the November general election.
The fact that Harris was the border czar and failed was one issue, but the fact that Harris had turned to the WEF to handle a domestic issue that even failed further angers her critics.
Defunding the Police
Just weeks after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, Marxist leadership of Black Lives Matters in conjunction with Bob Avakian and Sunsara Taylor’s group, Revolution Communist Party, galvanized demonstrations across America calling for the defunding of the police. Their antics morphed into riots, theft, and destruction.
Harris had ended her presidential campaign about six months earlier and she was still two months from being asked to be Joe Biden’s vice-presidential nominee.
In a June 2020 interview, Harris was unwavering in her support of defunding the police. Just the day before, she praised Los Angeles Mayor Richard Garcetti about his decision to slash $150 million from his police budget and allocate those monies to social services.
“Defund the police, the issue behind it is that we need to reimagine how we are creating safety,” Harris said in the interview. “And when you have many cities that have one third of their entire city budget focused on policing, we know that is not the smart way and the best way or the right way to achieve safety.”
“For too long, the status quo thinking has been, you get more safety by putting more cops on the street,” Harris said. “Well, that’s wrong, because by the way, if you wanna look at upper middle class suburban neighborhoods, they don’t have that patrol car.”
By August 2020, Bob Avakian, who hails from the radical 1960s on the streets forever looking to win a revolution, and who has written a new constitution to replace the U.S. Constitution, endorsed the Biden - Harris ticket.
Its premise is very much akin to Klaus Schwab's at the World Economic Forum - no private property rights.
Going into the 2024 general election because of the violence in America, Harris is now emphasizing her prosecutorial background and recently produced an ad.
“Her position has always been that you can both be tough and smart on crime, and it requires funding police, but it also requires funding rehabilitation and things that might criminal justice system safer,” Mitch Landrieu, Harris' campaign Co-Chair stated to CNN. “You can do both.”
The honest question is "Can you do both," because her record in California was controversial in terms of outcomes.
She was one of the most progressive prosecutors having created the program “Back on Track” for those incarcerated. She has been criticized for trying to be a social workers as a prosecutor and certainly has a mixed record. as reported in Axios.
RACE - DEI - Critical Race Theory
During Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign, she was not afraid to us the race card. During one of the debates that infuriated Dr. Jill Biden at the time, Harris stood on the debate stage and said to Joe Biden, “I do not think you are a racist, but….”and continued to reveal that while he was addressing busing, she was one of the little girls who was bused to school.
Harris’ family background is biracial. Her father is Jamaican while her late mother was born in India. When they met in the 1960s in California, they were involved with civil rights marches. Race was an issue then and it has only become more of an issue in the last four years with terms like white supremacy, bigot, and racist thrown around if someone just disagrees with a progressive policy. The DEI that the Biden-Harris administration has been pushing is in fact, having some blowback in schools and corporations.
By 2023, Harris was participating in the Essence Fest Global Black Economic Forum. The White House posted her remarks.
Fracking - Once Against - Now, Maybe Not
During Harri's 2020 presidential campaign, she was adamantly against banning fracking.
“There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,” she said at a CNN Townhall. “And starting with what we can do on Day One around public lands, right?”
She referred to her California record.
“And then there has to be legislation, but, yes, and this is something I’ve taken on in California. I have a history of working on this issue and to your point, we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the health and safety of communities,” she added.
But, in 2024, her tune is shifting with swing states on the horizon, namely, Pennsylvania, which is the second largest producer of natural gas.
Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania is a potential vice-presidential choice for Harris. He may not make it as the ultimate choice but as of Monday, reports are that he is still in the running and whoever is the choice will be kicking off a battleground swing with Harris in Philadelphia this week.
Now, as Harris is competing to win over key swing state voters, her campaign has pivoted to the position that she is no longer supporting a ban on the practice. Pennsylvania, is the second largest producer of natural gas.
Trump criticized Harris on this flip flop position and her campaign pushed back with a false statement.
“Trump’s false claims about fracking bans are an obvious attempt to distract from his own plans to enrich oil and gas executives at the expense of the middle class,” her campaign stated.
Eliminating private insurance: "That's not what I meant."
Before Harris ran for president the first time in 2020, then-Senator Harris co-sponsored Vermont Senator Bernie Sander's Medicare-for-All legislation that would have seen the elimination of private insurance in favor of a government-run system.
Harris was the first Democratic Senator to sign on to the bill with Sanders, telling voters at a town hall in California that she intended to sponsor the bill because “it’s just the right thing to do.”
When she ran for president in the 2020, Harris reiterated her support for a Medicare-for-All system.
“I believe the solution—and I actually feel very strongly about this—is that we need to have Medicare for all. That’s just the bottom line…it is inhumane to make people go through a system where they cannot literally receive the benefit of what medical science can offer because some insurance company has decided it doesn’t meet their bottom line,” she stated at the CNN town hall.
Harris later reversed herself on the hardline position during the primary campaign, claiming that she was open to other policies and eventually explained in another interview with CNN that “that’s not what I meant” when it came to her position on eliminating private insurance.
So far, though, Vice President Harris has not outlined her official 2024 position on a "Medicare-for-All" system.
Evidence of a shift come from Harris’ support of President Biden’s efforts to expand participation in the Affordable Care Act.
Economy - Inflation - Gas - Groceries - Wages - Unemployment
At the end of the day, the kitchen table issues will zero in on grocery, gas, mortgage, insurance, prescription, inflation, unemployment and the overall economic direction of the country.
Within the last couple of days, those numbers do no bode too well for the Biden-Harris administration and when compared to Trump's tenure, Americans may not be so forgiving for the Harris team no matter who she picks for her vice-president this week.
Voters want candidates who have a plan addressing the national debt, which has topped $35 trillion.
A new survey found that 93% of Democrat voters and 98% of Republican voters would choose a presidential candidate with a plan to address the debt over one without a plan (95% overall), according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
"As we approach the final months of the election campaign, voters want to hear more from their candidates about solutions for the $35 trillion and growing national debt," said Michael Peterson, CEO of the nonpartisan Peterson Foundation. "The debt is the one issue where more than nine-in-ten Democratic and Republican voters agree that they want candidates to share plans to stabilize the debt. Between now and the election, we will add $1 trillion more to the debt and 2025 brings several major fiscal decisions, so now is the time for a serious and sustained national conversation about solutions."
"Kamala Harris has proudly and repeatedly celebrated her role as Joe Biden’s co-pilot on ‘Bidenomics,'" Trump Campaign National Press Secretary Kroline Leavitt stated in a press release. "She cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate for spending that put inflation on steroids, and despite the evidence that America’s working families are hurting she tells us these failed plans are working. The basic necessities of food, gas and housing are less affordable, unemployment is rising, and Kamala doesn’t seem to care."
In the end, November election day may just come down to
Trumponomics v. Bidenomics and Trump border policy v. Biden-Harris immigration and health care policy.
Preserve America PAC recently released a commercial which Art Del Cueto narrated. He does not mince words.
"I'm Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council. America needs a commander in chief who's tough on illegal immigration. Kamala Harris fails that test. We're not gonna treat people who are undocumented cross the borders criminals. That's correct. Kamala with Biden's borders, she supported sanctuary cities and taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants. And she created the worst border crisis in American history. Kamala Harris is dangerous," states Art Del Cueto.
Christine Dolan is a seasoned Investigative Journalist, television producer, author, and photographer. She is Co-Founder of American Conversations whose format focuses on in-depth analysis of critical issues about “the story behind the headlines.”
