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HARD TO WATCH: This clip illustrates exactly why Kamala Harris has been dodging media interviews. pic.twitter.com/7MW8E3XMOe
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 26, 2024
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KAMALA HARRIS’S MEDIA GAMBIT IS WORKING. Vice President Kamala Harris has done an impressive job lowering the bar on the question of how she will communicate her views to voters. As you know, Harris has not done an interview since a group of backroom Democratic Party insiders muscled President Joe Biden out of the race on July 21, leading to Harris’s instant elevation to Democratic nominee the next day. Yes, she has taken a few softball questions from her traveling press corps but nothing of any consequence. Needless to say, Harris has not done a news conference to take questions from reporters over an extended period of time.
Ed: Is it, though? If that were true, then we wouldn't see this ...
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Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will sit with CNN for their first joint interview on Thursday as Democrats work to broaden their base’s excitement from last week’s Democratic National Convention.
The interview, conducted by CNN’s chief political correspondent and anchor Dana Bash, will air at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday. It occurs as the candidates embark on a bus tour through the battleground state of Georgia and marks the first time Harris has sat with a journalist for an in-depth, on-the-record conversation since President Joe Biden dropped his bid for a second term and endorsed her on July 21.
Ed: This is a strategy designed for softball questions about the relationship between the two candidates rather than hard-hitting questions on policy. Will Bash play along? Stay tuned ...
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🚨@Tim_Walz did Subway Takes 🚨https://t.co/mr5vu0VOQB pic.twitter.com/JPl7GGDLFk
— Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) August 27, 2024
Ed: Ask RFK about gutters and political campaigns.
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GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance on Tuesday called Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris a "cog in the wheel" of a corrupt system and cited what he believes are failures of the Biden administration in which she is vice president.
"In some ways I feel bad for Kamala Harris," the Ohio senator said during a rally in Big Rapids, Michigan. "I'm not sure that this is a woman who knows what she actually believes. If you think about it she's just a cog in the wheel of a very corrupt system."
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Kamala Harris is a fake.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 27, 2024
If she wants to build the border wall, she could start right now! https://t.co/EXyBzk1DpR
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Today, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and a group of their colleagues sent a letter urging Senate Appropriators to reduce funding for the Administration’s “reckless immigration enforcement operations.” In the letter, the senators highlight the threat that such operations, including an increase in Border Patrol and ICE agents, detention beds, and wall funding pose to Dreamers who are at risk of the Administration’s arbitrary decision to end DACA.
“Under current funding levels, the Administration has expanded immigration enforcement within American communities in an indiscriminate manner, failing to distinguish Dreamers and other hardworking individuals with deep community ties from actual threats to our public safety,” said the senators.
Ed: That's from 2018. Vance isn't kidding when he calls Harris a fake. Salena Zito tweeted this out today as a reminder of just how radically anti-enforcement Harris has been, on the record, when it mattered.
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🚨FLASHBACK🚨
— Francis Brennan (@FrancisBrennan) August 27, 2024
In 2019 Kamala Harris called President Trump's border wall a "vanity project" that wouldn't work.
"That wall ain't going to stop them [UNCONTROLLABLE CACKLING] let's actually be honest about that," Harris added. https://t.co/ddnhM8erxo pic.twitter.com/bKL4whm8sm
Ed: Complete with cackling at the end.
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Vice President Kamala Harris has signaled her support for radical legislation that would allow a new Supreme Court justice to be appointed to the bench every two years, according to a Democratic senator.
“They have not gone so far as to say, ‘We endorse your bill.’ They have said that your bills are precisely aligned with what we are talking about,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) told The Dispatch last week when asked if the Harris campaign has voiced its support for legislation he proposed last October that would dramatically overhaul the high court.
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Kamala’s campaign just did a policy walk back for the ages.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 27, 2024
Her staffers now claim that she doesn’t support electric vehicle mandates.
But the Biden EPA last March implemented new regulations to convert half of all new car sales to electric by 2030.
They’re now claiming she… pic.twitter.com/FdGrQGgqjZ
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A campaign official for Kamala Harris said Tuesday that it is a “lie” that the vice president Kamala Harris supports implementing an electric vehicle mandate, even though she cosponsored legislation doing exactly that in 2019.
Harris’s director of rapid response, Ammar Moussa, wrote in a campaign email ahead of Trump running mate J.D. Vance’s remarks on the economy in Michigan that the Ohio senator would “undoubtedly lie, gaslight, and try to run away from the truth.” One such lie, he cautioned, is that “Vice President Harris wants to force every American to own an electric vehicle.”
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One US journalist, believe it or not, has actually applauded Ms Harris for not talking to the press yet. Dick Polman, a commentator who was once described by ABC News as “one of the finest political journalists of his generation”, wrote a column last week praising her for being “smart enough” to know that, at this stage, “she doesn’t need to fence with the Fourth Estate. Seriously, why should she?” After all, he explained, “Her answers on policy will inevitably be sliced and diced and endlessly parsed on page one.”
Well, yes. As they should be. She’s running to be President of the United States, not leader of her local Girl Scout troop.
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Here's Kamala Harris in 2019 claiming it's "irresponsible" to not grant mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens — and eventually convert them all into full-fledged, voting citizens. pic.twitter.com/HZdcLUCH3E
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 27, 2024
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The reliably liberal New York Times was among the first to suddenly change tack on Friday, taking aim at what many perceive to be Harris's fatal lack of clear policy with a brutal headline that read: 'Joy Is Not a Strategy'. ...
And it's not just the Times.
Indeed, a sense of unease with Harris now appears to be creeping across the commentariat, with the authoritative Wall Street Journal and left-leaning The Hill adding to the disquiet.
'Are You Willing to Pay $5 Trillion for Kamala Vibes?' asked senior commentator James Freeman in the WSJ on Friday.
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