Vice President Kamala Harris is a strong contender for a faltering Democratic Party because she is Black, a woman and can be trusted to hand off the task of governing to others.
She has no track record at any level of government other than being elected or appointed, she is a terrible campaigner and failed to fulfill all the duties given to her as Vice President.
But because she is alive, she is a suitable candidate to challenge President Donald Trump for President Joe Biden.
We should not look for any deeper reason for the current media frenzy over Kamala Harris. The fact is that the media and the Democrats will support any Republican candidate, especially anyone who opposes Trump.
They tolerated Biden’s apparent decline and failure to govern until the farce became embarrassing, especially against Trump, whose vitality after surviving an assassination attempt was undeniable.
Harris became the presumptive nominee despite having the lowest chance of winning of all the candidates. The New York TimesJosh Barro I have written“She hasn’t shown swing vote appeal, she can’t get away from the Biden-Harris record on inflation and immigration, and her biggest claim to fame is that she’s not old and she’s not Trump,” but he noted that “that might be enough to win.”
Harris had two further factors working in her favor.
First, there was the legal issue of transferring Biden’s campaign funds. Legal experts had warned that it was unlikely Biden would withdraw before becoming the Democratic nominee and still control the $100 million in his campaign committee’s account. It might still be illegal for Biden to transfer the funds to Harris. But because Harris is on the committee, she had a stronger argument than any other candidate to keep the funds.
Second, most of the alternative candidates were white and male, most notably California Governor Gavin Newsom and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Excluding her, the first female vice president in U.S. history, and a Black woman, would have been a major insult to the Democratic Party’s most loyal base. With polls showing declining Black support for the Democratic Party, Harris was the only viable option, albeit primarily among men.
As a refugee from the Soviet Union once said, “When you have no choice, you always make the right choice.”
And yet, when Harris emerged as a candidate, the Democratic Party and the media welcomed her with wholehearted enthusiasm.
The enthusiasm seemed to take conservatives by surprise. Had Democrats forgotten that Harris was so unpopular they dropped out of the 2020 presidential race before even a single primary had taken place? Had they forgotten that she was the most left-leaning member of the U.S. Senate? (Yes, they actually did, helped by a clumsy cover-up by GovTrack, the supposedly nonpartisan website that made the statement before it became politically inconvenient.)
What Republicans don’t seem to understand is that Kamala Harris is simply “Democrats in generalHe had been ahead of Biden in the polls for months. emptiness Her rhetoric, “not stuck in the past, stuck in what’s coming,” is a strength, suggesting that she can be programmed to toe the party line without worrying about her past radical positions.
Adding race and gender gives us another “historical” reason to ignore everything else about Harris as a candidate.
She will take an unexpectedly tough stance, but the strategy is simple: Focus on what Trump as president offers. Democrats offer a better past; Trump offers a better future. In a nation on edge, new ideas will trump the same old things.
Joel B. Pollack is executive editor of Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday The show airs Sunday nights from 7 to 10 p.m. (4 to 7 p.m. ET) on SiriusXM Patriot. He is the author of “Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days,” which is available for preorder on Amazon. He also wrote,Trumpian virtue: The lessons and legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency” is available on Audible. He is the 2018 recipient of the Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter. Joel Pollack.
