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Did the DNC purposely spread rumors of a surprise Beyoncé performance to fill the auditorium at its Thursday night rally? If so, it’s a cheap trick and speaks to their confidence in Kamala Harris’ star power. But it’s not surprising. After all, this is the same team that won’t let candidates talk off-script for fear they’ll say something stupid.
That won’t last, and after this star-studded night, Democratic candidates will be forced to fill the void. As a result, we may have just witnessed the culmination of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination in a stunning speech that was met with great enthusiasm (despite the absence of Beyoncé) but did little to answer questions about how she would actually govern the country.
Kamala Harris formally accepts Democratic nomination at Democratic National Convention
This is by design: When the vice president recently floated proposals like food price controls and tens of thousands of dollars in cash checks for first-time homebuyers, her policies were widely criticized, and her approval ratings, which had been rising since her unlikely unopposed nomination, immediately plummeted.
Since then, and of course in her speech on Thursday night, she has uttered clichés and corny lines, and in fairness, she’s done a pretty good job of it.
Her campaign is in many ways a repeat of Barack Obama’s 2008 “Hope and Change” campaign, full of empty feel-good generalities, but she ran after eight years of Republican George W. Bush in the Oval Office, and with voters tired of the Iraq War and divisive politics and eager for a new direction.
For four days, Democrats have portrayed Harris as running against the incumbent, when in reality she is the incumbent.
Kamala Harris talks about blazing a “new path forward,” but she has spent the past three and a half years in the White House digging the very holes she now promises to fill. It’s her fault that Harris blames bread and beef prices for rising by 50 percent and housing for being unaffordable.
For four days, Democrats have promoted Harris as if she were running against an incumbent, when in fact teeth Incumbent.
In her acceptance speech, Harris, like other speakers, defended the Democratic Party’s perceived weaknesses, but spoke of her love of country and pride in the values that make America special – freedom, opportunity and fairness.
Harris and Waltz had a successful tournament, but they failed to achieve their key goals.
Never before have so many American flags flown at the Democratic Convention Center. Never before have assembled crowds struggled so often to remember the words to the national anthem or chanted “USA, USA!” with such gusto. Clearly, Harris and the DNC wanted voters, especially those in patriotic Midwestern battleground states, to ignore the fact that progressive left Democrats routinely denounce America as a hotbed of racism and sexism, denounce capitalism as the root of pernicious inequality, and protest against our evil alliance with Israel.
Harris also went out of her way to praise law enforcement, trying to erase memories of her support for the Democratic “defund the police” movement and bail “reform” changes that made cities more dangerous and police officers more vulnerable. She spoke of her record as a tough-on-crime prosecutor, hoping people would forget her support for the thugs who burned down much of Minneapolis in 2020. She also emphasized her support for and honoring of military veterans, presumably to assuage anger among U.S. soldiers over her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, exaggerating their military ranks.
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Perhaps Harris learned something from Governor Walz, who was her longtime high school football defensive coordinator. After all, many say that a good defense is the best offense. For example, Harris has promised that if she becomes president, she will sign a bipartisan border bill that former President Trump accuses of obstructing for political purposes. This charge helps counter critics who accuse Harris, Joe Biden’s border chief, of doing absolutely nothing to stem the influx of immigrants entering our country illegally.
Harris spoke engagingly about being the daughter of a strong-willed Indian mother who taught her anything was possible, and about growing up in a middle-class community. A woman who struggled to keep staff and was described as difficult to work with, Harris seemed to have boosted her image and likeability.
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But the glow quickly faded when Harris launched into an over-the-top and disingenuous attack on former President Donald Trump, blasting the January 6th protests and accusing Trump of “trying to throw away your votes.” Of course, that’s exactly what the Democrats did, nominating Harris and ignoring the 31 million people who voted for Joe Biden.
She warned that Trump would “jail journalists,” send the military against his own citizens, and ban abortion nationwide. She brought up the demons of Project 2025, as did many others, but even liberal news outlets have confirmed that this conservative policy document has nothing to do with the Trump campaign.
Like President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris continues to lie about former President Donald Trump, and if Trump was really as bad as they claim, they would have actual facts to use to prove their case.
There’s another big lie that was spread at the Democratic National Convention. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and just about everyone in between have spoken about how to unite the country and that, in the president’s words, hate should have no “safe haven” in our country. But the fierce condemnation expressed against Trump, and by implication the tens of millions who support him, exposes the hypocrisy of such sentiments.
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Ms. Harris’ speech was appealing to Democrats who are happy that Joe Biden is no longer their nominee, but her work is just beginning. Outside the Chicago auditorium, voters are eager to know how Ms. Harris’s promised $5 trillion in tax hikes will affect the economy, whether unprecedented federal spending will keep interest rates high and how unlimited immigration will depress middle-class wages.
Harris will soon have to answer some questions, which could dampen the excitement.
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