Kamala Harris has a major problem heading into Tuesday night’s debate against Donald Trump. That is, she must deceive voters into buying her message that it’s time to move on from the status quo — when she is the status quo.
Following her falsehood-laden speech at the Democrat National Convention and lone sit-down interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, it’s become clear that Harris, the sitting vice president, is attempting to frame herself as the candidate of “change.” By regurgitating generic phrases like, “It’s time to turn the page,” the Democrat nominee hopes to sell the illusion that Trump — who hasn’t been in office for nearly four years — is to blame for the catastrophic failures wrought by the Biden-Harris administration.
The anti-speech New York Times underscored this “conundrum” in a Monday article, with authors Katie Rogers and Erica Green noting how Harris “will have to decide how much to embrace or distance herself from President Biden and his policies at a moment when polls show that many Americans are hungry for change.” Of course, these “reporters” eagerly sanitized the widespread economic suffering caused by the Biden-Harris agenda, writing that one of Harris’ “most glaring vulnerabilities … is an economy that is stable but whose benefits many voters say they cannot feel.”
But Harris can’t “turn the page” when her name is written all over it. Try as she might to distance herself from Biden, Harris can’t negate the fact that she’s been riding shotgun next to the man driving America off a cliff for the past four years.
High gas and grocery prices, a wide-open southern border, disastrous foreign policy, and skyrocketing mortgage rates are not only features of the Biden-Harris agenda — they’re products of it. And despite Democrats’ best attempts, there’s no denying Harris’ role in helping foment several of these disasters. Does the label of “border czar” sound familiar to anyone?
While anonymous campaign aides have regularly claimed the Democrat nominee has changed her radical left-wing positions, Harris herself has given no indication she’s “flip-flopped” on any of her past views. Nor has she telegraphed any plans to “turn the page” from the administration’s current policies.
If anything, Harris has doubled down on them, telling Bash that her “values have not changed.”
Americans can expect to see this underhanded strategy at work during Tuesday’s debate. Harris will likely placate the Democrat base with unspecific pledges to stand by the “values” of the Biden-Harris administration’s extremist agenda, while also painting a dishonest image for middle-of-the-road voters that she’s a fresh face emblematic of a new era in American politics.
Whether Americans buy such nonsense will be determined on Nov. 5. But the fact remains: If the Biden-Harris administration is as super-duper successful as Harris wants voters to believe, she wouldn’t be doing everything in her power to whitewash her role in it.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
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