You have to hand it to Kamala Harris. She has found a way to unburden herself from what has been, which is the Biden/Harris administration. 

For some time now, it has been clear that Kamala is running as the challenger, and to be honest, that was a brilliant move by her campaign team. I couldn't have believed that it would fly, but it has to a certain extent. She is, against all the odds, still in this race despite the fact that Americans hate the Biden administration and its record. 

On Wednesday, Kamala gave her much anticipated economic address, and what was most striking about it was her trashing of the Biden economy. 

Sure, she didn't put it quite like that, but her pitch was simple: the middle class is getting squeezed, and she is going to make things so much better. 

Happening now: Kamala Harris at Economic Club of Pittsburgh

"I understand the pressures of making ends meet. I grew up in a middle class family."
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She didn't. Both of her parents were wealthy professors. pic.twitter.com/5U0tz12Rmk

— Red Alert Florida (@RedAlertFlorida) September 25, 2024

As a middle class kid herself--did you hear that she is from the middle class? Because she is from the middle class, you know. Having two professors as your parents is really tough. She had to work at some unspecified McDonalds, you know, as middle-class kids do. 

Apparently, and with this I have to agree, the current economic policies are failing and we need to replace the awful incumbents with her new forward-looking administration. 

Quite the optics today as Harris is out saying we need to move past failed policies while the old man is on The View saying he delegated everything to her in his administration. https://t.co/S19nl7XcNN

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 25, 2024

In today's America, rapacious companies are price gouging everyone all the time, but Kamala knows how to fix that, and will get right on it on day 1,462 of her being in office. 

I mean day one, which happens to be 1,462 days after January 20th, 2021. 

Harris didn't exactly deny that she is in office, but she sure isn't leaning into the economic policies of the Biden administration. 

Kamala: "Over the past three and a half years, we have taken major steps forward to recover from the economic crisis we inherited."

Kamala Harris inherited 1.4% inflation, $2.46 gas, and cast the tie breaking votes on the economic policies that made them skyrocket. pic.twitter.com/mGaMu7HL62

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 25, 2024

That's no surprise. People don't like the results of those policies, and are likely to be skeptical that Harris actually will accomplish any of her promised goals. And with reason: Biden promised great results too, and that didn't work out so well. Experience says Trump is better at this sort of thing than Biden/Harris, and Harris will have a hard time completely eliminating the stink of failure. 

Harris' pitch yesterday was that she was "pragmatic"--I heard that many times yesterday, so it is clearly a talking point--but it remains substance-free. 

Kamala Harris' pragmatic economic pitch to voters https://t.co/TZ2HDlYWQi

— John Williams (@DragonHawk1959) September 25, 2024

"I am not a communist" is not a strong pitch, but it is the best she has. Blah blah blah word salad is her standard pitch, and she delivered it over the plate. 

In her big econ speech today in Pittsburgh, Kamala Harris says she we should not be constrained by ideology and we should take "good ideas from wherever they come," citing her history of public service and adding: "I also know the limitations of government"

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) September 25, 2024

It is true that most of the big dogs in business--you know, the Fortune 100 companies and Democrat shills like Mark Cuban (who also endorsed Biden as great for business)--are lining up behind Kamala Harris. 

But that's because she was a middle-class kid and they love the middle class. Or, perhaps, it's because they know that she will be a lapdog for the technocrats and is too stupid to have any ideas of her own. Mark Cuban has many times intimated that none of what she says about capital gains taxes or price gouging is real. She is listening to people like him and the big corporate leaders. 

.@BeckyQuick grilled Mark Cuban…

He says Kamala has better ideas in private. She says the campaign is likely telling him whatever he wants to hear for donating, and why doesn’t she declare her views publicly?

Mark and I recently talked about the border, I made the same point. pic.twitter.com/FoOk4yGw22

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) September 5, 2024

Mark Cuban calls in to CNBC to defend Kamala Harris’s tax plans, gets obliterated by hosts: pic.twitter.com/1iIdIzd4VF

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 6, 2024

In other words, Mark Cuban's pitch is: that she is lying and will do what we tell her.

Which, to be honest, is probably right. Kamala has no idea what she thinks beyond mushy socialist/communist sensibilities. She likely WILL do what she is told, which is why the Establishment is lined up behind her. She is as sharp as Biden. 

And she will produce results as great as his as well. 

So, while Harris is pushing the idea that she is the challenger in this race and trying to dump the Biden economy on Trump, it will be hard to make that stick. 

Or, should I say, it will be hard to make that stick if Trump stays on message about the economy and immigration, where Harris is weakest. At the end of the day, Harris can't run on the economy. At best, she can minimize the damage by distancing herself from Biden. 

Trump has to wrap the Biden economy around her ankles like concrete galoshes.