Not only have the far-left mocked incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris for plagiarizing much of Joe Biden's “issues” page on his campaign website, New Republic It also warned CacklyMcNeverBorderCzar that the lack of concrete policy proposals means it is not sustainable.
This comes as no surprise to anyone, as the latest polls have shown Kamala's support leveling off and former President Donald Trump edging ahead. Since last week, Trump has regained the lead in what RealClearPolitics calls an “even” race. Election MapAdditionally, Kamala's two-point lead in the national race has narrowed to just one point.
As I have said all along, the Harris campaign's attempt to replicate Biden's underground 2020 campaign is not sustainable. Biden is already well known politically and personally, and the pandemic has allowed him to stay out of public sight. All the public knows about Kamala is that she was a terrible vice president and that her politics are far more left-wing than most people's.
To try to remedy this, the Harris campaign is having anonymous staffers claim that Harris no longer believes in these unpopular policies (banning fracking, ending private insurance through Medicare for All, decriminalizing illegal immigration, providing free gender transitions to illegal immigrants, confiscating guns, etc.) The problem with this approach is that 1) no one knows where Harris currently stands on these issues, and 2) Donald Trump and J.D. Vance can fill in the blanks and it's impossible for Harris not to be blank.
“Kamala Harris cannot continue campaigning like this.” read of New Republic Headline.
The campaign's strategy seemed to be to capitalize on the positive vibes of the summer and avoid the risk of an aggressive policy agenda that would expose her to criticism. But there's also the risk of having too few policies, because it would make Harris look like she doesn't believe in anything (and because her few policy stances have left her open to harsh criticism: her price gouging tactics were roundly panned by economists across the political spectrum, and her tipping policy was criticized because it was first adopted by Trump).
The Harris campaign finally, belatedly, recognized that this was a problem. On Sunday, they finally added an “Issues” section to her website, which includes the full set of policies the campaign has previously outlined, as well as sections on reproductive and civil rights. Unfortunately for the Harris campaign, the release was marred by a simple but significant error: The page's source code revealed that parts of its platform were copied directly from the Biden campaign's page.
Even if there was plagiarism, her “policy page” would be better called a “cliché page” — it's more about her values, which are said to remain unchanged, than it is some kind of roadmap for what her presidency might look like.
I don't intend to look into the horse's mouth, but here it is: New Republic“She was on a roll, but the honeymoon is over. Now she needs to show how her governing principles differ from Biden's, and Tuesday's debate is the perfect forum to show that.”
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Debates are a stupid platform for announcing policy. I don't want to present an issue and then get demolished in real time in a live debate. Debates are a platform for defending your ideas, not announcing them. I want to present my policies through “policy speeches” that are heavily promoted during the campaign, so the public has time to think about them, and surrogates can hone arguments in support of them on cable TV news shows. Candidates can use those arguments during debates and in their own media appearances (although Kamala probably won't be appearing on the media).
The last thing a candidate needs is to be caught off guard during a debate, and we all know Kamala doesn't handle pressure well.
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