Republicans are already slamming Ms. Harris as the John Kerry of 2024. He was a relatively honest flip-flopper: “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” She’s loosely disavowing certain policies while refusing to fill in the blanks. And it’s hardly correct to assume Biden policies fill those holes since she doesn’t mention him or his agenda on the trail.
Also, note that the positions from which Ms. Harris is detaching herself weren’t issued from a college debate stage. They were her views of five years ago, when she was in her mid-50s and serving in the U.S. Senate. That massive shift itself requires explanation. Has she had an epiphany? Been inhabited by an alien? Or are voters being asked to elect a woman who in her third decade in the political arena has yet to decide what she thinks about the most pressing policy questions of the day?
Of course not. This is deliberate evasion, and she learned it from a pro. Covid was nobody’s idea of a good time, but the 2020 Biden campaign realized its political upside. The benefit of the “basement campaign” was it allowed the team to control the message. On paper, the Biden agenda reassured progressive activists he’d be their man in office. On camera, his tightly scripted comments were all generalities—“leadership,” “hope,” “the middle class.”
The Kamala version is the teleprompter campaign, More on that in the 4th installment!!!!