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Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose, and it is in short supply in the Biden administration and, by extension, the Harris campaign.
After a tumultuous July, Harris’ campaign has 93 days to launch a national political operation, and a lack of trust could jeopardize her strong start before her policy shifts come under scrutiny.
Last November, Harris assured the nation that Biden “will have absolute authority not only in rooms around the world, but in the Oval Office.”
In February she described him as “bold and vibrant.”
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Last month, Americans learned that none of these explanations fit the Commander in Chief. Voters are smarter than politicians give them credit for, and this case was no exception. Trump’s Trump strategy fell apart on the Atlanta debate stage, ending Biden’s reelection hopes and raising suspicions of a cover-up from those around him, including the vice president.
Then, weeks after claiming that the only reason he was dropping out was because of “God Almighty” or “health reasons,” Biden suddenly dropped out and Harris ran.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the decision had “nothing to do with his health,” but Biden’s 11-minute address to the nation offered no explanation for his surprising about-face, backtracking on his pledge to “fight this campaign to the end.”
Vice President Harris cannot claim ignorance. Early in her term, Biden said she “Last person in the room“And he will enjoy the access that his former administration partner, Barack Obama, gave him during his two terms as vice president.”
Kamala Harris hasn’t held a press conference since emerging as the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Indeed, a Fox News Digital investigation found at least 80 meetings between Biden and Harris, but that figure only included public meetings, meaning the actual number is likely much higher.
To be clear, the November election won’t just hinge on events surrounding Biden’s withdrawal. The challenge for Harris is that the issues aren’t even that good.
At the southern border, efforts are underway to separate her from the political nightmare. The headline read, “President Biden directs Vice President Harris to address border crisis.” Meeting with immigrants The number of people crossing the border has reached a record high. Replaced by economy It was listed as the top concern among voters in a poll this spring.
Now the mainstream media is defending Harris, fixating on the term “border czar,” dismissing it as a misleading Republican designation and ignoring her broader responsibilities.
Similarly ringing hollow is Biden-Harris’s effort to frame the election as a “defense of democracy,” which has long been the Biden administration’s slogan. To be fair, the issue garnered surprisingly high traction in the 2022 midterm elections, with exit polls showing Democrats outperforming all expectations in voters’ minds, second only to the economy.
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But it’s harder to maintain a party nominee when they’re nominated by party insiders without a vote: Harris wasn’t nominated “from the grassroots, from below,” as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ludicrously claimed.
Meanwhile, the man who won 14 million votes in the primary election was hauled out of the White House after immense pressure from party elders, left-wing editorial boards and Hollywood fundraisers.
Already, many of the platforms Harris ran on during her ill-fated 2020 election have resurfaced: she demanded $10 trillion to combat climate change, wanted to ban fracking, co-sponsored the Green New Deal and abolished private health insurance. Some of these were so unpalatable that Harris has already backed away from them.
Before we get there, she should apply President Biden’s pledge to “always tell the truth honestly” to the events surrounding his withdrawal and, more importantly, her role in supporting “an old man with a failing memory,” in the words of special counsel Robert Hur, as leader of the free world.
At the time, Harris slammed Heo’s explanation as “baseless, inaccurate and inappropriate.”
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Is it any wonder that she has not given any interviews or held any press conferences since becoming the presumptive nominee?
Either Harris was wrong or she was playing politics — the answer is already clear, but voters have a right to know which it is.
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