Kamala Harris Casts Trump as an Incumbent While Taking Credit for Her Admin’s RecordWendell Husebø 26 Aug 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has it both ways on the campaign trail — simultaneously taking credit for some of the Biden-Harris administration’s record while casting former President Donald Trump as the incumbent.
The contradiction wrongly frames Trump as the candidate responsible for soaring migrant crime, spiking inflation, and the deadly Afghan withdrawal — three situations that arose under the Biden-Harris administration.
The contradiction stems from the media’s failure to widely ignore a “catch-22″ rooted within Harris’s candidacy: Harris cannot campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s claim of solving those key issues. However, Harris must tout the administration’s policy successes to validate her record and candidacy.
Harris’s media allies appear happy to let Harris speak out of both sides of her mouth. They failed to interview Harris about her policies for 36 days since she joined the race, a shocking amount of time for a new candidate who received an impromptu coronation.
In a Monday article titled “She’s the sitting vice president. She’s the candidate of change. How Harris is having it both ways,” Associated Press’s Zeke Miller and Chris Megerian appeared to praise the contradiction as “successfully harmonizing two seemingly competing messages”:
Kamala Harris is having it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention, taking credit for parts of President Joe Biden’s record in rallies staged in front of Air Force Two while casting herself as a new leader who rails against “the politics of the past.”
In every presidential cycle candidates run on experience or freshness, but Harris so far appears to be successfully harmonizing two seemingly competing messages, much to the frustration of former President Donald Trump and his allies.
Harris’s aides appear to be enjoying the double-dipping contradiction.
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