Kamala Harris spent a few hours in Texas on Saturday. She spoke at the LBJ Library in Austin and then she was the keynote speaker at the 2022 Texas Democratic Party Johnson-Jordan Reception. Kamala came to Texas to raise money for Democrats but not to tour the southern border. She spoke about her pet issues – abortion, voting rights, and her love of Venn diagrams but no a word about illegal immigration. It’s as though the Biden border crisis does not exist for this administration.

As our colleague at sister site Red State pointed out, Kamala spoke to her audience at the LBJ Presidential Library as though they were five years old when she tried to explain the filibuster to them. How embarrassing.

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As usual she speaks as though the filibuster is only used by mean Republicans to obstruct the agenda of noble Democrats. She fails to note that both parties use it when they are in the minority because that is the purpose of the filibuster – a vehicle for the minority party to have a voice in the Senate. Nonetheless, she persists. Cackling and all.

She spoke about abortion and encouraged Democrats to get out and vote to oust the governor, the attorney general, and local prosecutors who may bring charges against abortion providers. “A democracy will be as strong as our willingness to fight for it.” She called the Texas law “immoral.”

“The United States Supreme Court just took a constitutional right that had been recognized from the people of America, from the women of America,” Harris said. “While extremists — so-called leaders — trumpet the rhetoric of freedom, they attack the very foundations of freedom.”

She blamed Texas’ elected GOP leaders for removing women’s freedoms, calling them “the ones passing laws making it difficult for people in the states to vote.”

Harris added: “One of those people is the governor of this very state.” Even before the Dobbs decision, she said, Gov. Greg Abbott and other leaders passed some of the “most radical, most anti-women laws in the country.”

Do tell, Kamala. I must have missed all those radical anti-women laws in Texas. She added some hyperbole to her rant against the elected leadership in Texas and warned the audience that contraception and gay marriage is on the line now, too.

“Where do we think this is heading?” Harris asked the crowd. “Justice Clarence Thomas said the quiet part out loud. Contraception is on the line. Marriage equality is on the line. With Republican party leaders in charge, health care is on the line.”

A trigger law went into effect in Texas in August, two months after the Supreme Court ruled on the Dobbs case. There is an exception for if the life of the mother is endangered, otherwise performing an abortion is a felony punishable by up to life in prison.

Kamala endorsed Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke for governor.

“There’s an election in 31 days, and it will matter,” she said. “It’s going to matter who your county prosecutor is if you live in a place where there’s a state law that has criminalized doctors and nurses and health care providers. It’s going to matter who your attorney general is” and “who your governor is.”

Although the GOP-controlled Legislature has been at the vanguard of curbing abortion in Texas, locally elected district attorneys would enforce the ban, which carries up to life in prison and fines of at least $100,000 for performing an abortion. Dallas County prosecutor John Creuzot, a Democrat, has vowed not to enforce that law. Counterparts in neighboring Tarrant and Denton counties would. The prosecutor in Harris County, the state’s most populous, has called enforcement impractical and a low priority.

Her audience was about 140 people, mostly University of Texas students. It is reported that she spoke for about 40 minutes and the topic of illegal immigration didn’t come up, even though illegal aliens were bused to her official residence in D.C. just a few days ago by Governor Abbott to raise awareness of the Biden border crisis with the administration.

At the fundraiser, she spoke about the alleged successes of the Biden administration.

“Democrats stood on the floor and delivered relief to the American people,” Harris told attendees at the JJ Reception, named for the late President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. “People are suffering.”

Yes, people are suffering, thanks to the progressive agenda put forward by the Biden administration. Massive government spending has created a 40 year high for inflation and the cost of living is at the top of voters concerns. Kamala Harris has even lower favorability rates than Biden. It is interesting that O’Rourke wasn’t in attendance at the big Democrat event in Austin to accept Kamala’s endorsement in person. His campaign gave the excuse that he was keeping his previously scheduled weekend of block walking schedule. Even Beto O’Rourke doesn’t want to be seen with Kamala.

The main focus of Kamala’s appearance at the LBJ Presidential Library was to talk about abortion. The event was framed as a discussion on ‘the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to protecting reproductive rights.’ NARAL President Mini Timmaraju and Julieta Garibay, senior capacity building director for Groundswell Fund served as moderators. Democrats truly have nothing else to run on except for abortion. In Texas that strategy seems to be failing. Governor Abbott is likely to win re-election with a comfortable lead over O’Rourke, as polling averaging stands now. Real Clear Politics aggregate averaging shows Abbott with a 8.6% lead as of today.