Vice President Kamala Harris has shown two sides to her campaign, claiming credit for some of the Biden-Harris administration’s accomplishments while simultaneously positioning former President Donald Trump as the incumbent president.
This contradiction falsely positions Trump as responsible for three situations that have arisen under the Biden-Harris administration: a surge in immigrant crime, soaring inflation and the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal.
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This contradiction stems from the media’s broader failure to ignore the “dilemma” underlying Harris’ candidacy: by campaigning on policies to improve crime, inflation, and border security, Harris is forced to undermine the Biden-Harris Administration’s claims that it will solve these key problems, yet she must tout the success of the Administration’s policies to justify her own record and her candidacy.
Harris’ media allies seem to revel in her double-talk: The media did not interview her about her policies in the 36 days since she joined the race, a shocking length for a freshman candidate whose presidency was suddenly so short.
In Monday’s article title “She’s the sitting vice president and she’s the candidate for change. Harris is doing both,” wrote Zeke Miller and Chris Megerian of the Associated Press, who seemed to praise the contradiction for “delicately reconciling two seemingly opposing messages.”
During her campaign rally in front of Air Force Two after the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris took a two-pronged approach, taking credit for some of President Joe Biden’s accomplishments while positioning herself as a new leader who opposes the “politics of the past.”
In every presidential election, candidates pitch experience and freshness, but so far Harris has seemed to juggle two seemingly conflicting messages, much to the frustration of former President Donald Trump and his allies.
Harris’s aides seem to be reveling in this duplicitous contradiction.
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“She’s a leader in her own right,” Brian Nelson, a senior campaign adviser, told reporters at a Bloomberg event at the Democratic National Convention, “but she’s a leader who has been President Biden’s partner for the last three and a half years…” [with] “Shared values and principles”
It’s unclear whether Harris’ strategy will be successful in the long term.
“We certainly have had a front-row seat to the ‘honeymoon,'” pro-Trump pollsters Tony Fabrizio and Travis Tunis wrote Saturday. “Indeed, the media has decided to extend the honeymoon beyond four weeks.”
According to a poll inflation, Border Securityand crime These are key issues plaguing the country under the Biden-Harris administration, a period during which inflation has soared across the board by about 20%, millions have crept across the southern border and illegal immigrants have been blamed for committing violent crimes.
A recent CBS News poll found that 63% of voters cited crime as a major factor in deciding who they would vote for in the presidential election, and a YouGov poll found that nearly two-thirds of Americans said rising costs and immigration were the most important issues facing them. Found In August.
Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former war room analyst for the Republican National Committee. He is the author of: The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “X” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
