Kamala’s Conundrum
The Heartland Institute
With less than three months before Election Day, the Kamala Harris presidential campaign is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Never mind the endless mainstream media hype that Kamala is the second coming of Barack Obama; nobody actually believes that. Also, don’t pay much attention to some of the recent polls that show Harris and former President Trump locked in a tight race; the Harris honeymoon period won’t last much longer.
The truth is, to win the presidency, Harris must maintain her far-left credentials to appease the staunch hardliners that constitute the current Democrat base. However, she also needs to simultaneously convince independent voters that she is not a far-left radical by embracing policies that cater to a wider audience.
Make no mistake, this is a difficult position for Kamala to be in and could lead to her campaign’s implosion sooner than you might expect.
Despite the legacy media’s efforts to rebrand Kamala as a moderate Democrat, the American people know better.
They know that Harris was a soft-on-crime attorney general of California who misrepresented the nature of Prop 47, the notorious ballot referendum passed in 2014 that downgraded thefts of $950 or less from a felony to a misdemeanor. They also know that Prop 47, after 10 years in effect, is partly responsible for the rapid uptick in California crime that has ruined once beautiful and safe neighborhoods throughout the Golden State.
The vast majority of Americans are also well aware that Harris’ tenure as a senator from California cemented any doubts that she is anything close to a moderate. While serving as the junior senator from California from 2017 to 2021, Harris consistently voted in favor of far-left bills that most Americans do not support. From her co-sponsorship of the Green New Deal to her advocacy for Medicare for All, Harris’ senatorial voting record proves she is on the left-wing fringe of the political spectrum.
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