Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t mumble incoherently or slip into long stretches of senility on the debate stage Tuesday evening with former President Donald Trump. That alone was a definitive victory for a Democrat Party that less than two months ago was forced to install Harris as its presidential candidate after octogenarian-in-chief Joe Biden’s mental batteries died during a disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump.
But despite getting by with a lot of help from her debate moderator friends at ABC(DNC) News, Harris proved to be the same empty vessel she’s always been. While she managed to stick to the more centrist-sounding talking points her political handlers have programmed into her, the vice president’s debate performance was a feast of word salad sentences, inane political platitudes, and a refusal to answer basic questions about her abysmal political record. Harris’ recent quick-change from Marxist to moderate was on full display, but the political schtick was as unbelievable as ever.
Webster’s Dictionary should have a photo of Harris under the word “disingenuous.”
Her closing statement said it all.
‘She is Biden’
While she spent much of the evening lying, spinning and evading, Harris was absolutely right about one thing: America is voting on “two very different visions for our country.”
“One that is focused on the future and the other that is focused on the past,” she said in her closing arguments.
Harris is staking her claim on the future. She has to. The last 3 1/2-plus years have been absolutely miserable for a lot of Americans. Income-devouring inflation. An unprecedented invasion of the border thanks to Biden and the border czar’s borderless immigration policies. Instability around the world, with devastating wars in Europe and the Middle East. A spate of violence and renewed fears of terrorism at home.
Harris desperately wants voters to forget about the past, as in the Trump presidency when inflation was under control, fentanyl and a flood of illegal immigrants wasn’t inundating communities across the county, and the U.S. and its military were respected around the world.
Trump summed it up when he said Harris would govern just like her boss, President Joe Biden, did. A stooge for the far left’s agenda.
“She is Biden,” the Republican said. “The worst inflation we’ve ever had. A horrible economy because inflation has made it so bad and she can’t get away from that.”
Leading By Spending
Oh, but the Democrat sure is trying to escape the Kamala Harris she’s has always been — at least until Biden bowed out of the race. Harris has previously campaigned on killing fracking, a losing issue in energy sector-dependent Pennsylvania, where Tuesday’s debate was held. The climate change cult high priestess claimed again during the debate that she is suddenly a defender of fracking because she cast the “tie-breaking vote” on the Democrats’ ludicrously named Inflation Reduction Act. Surprisingly, the $1.2 trillion spending boondoggle has not cut the high cost of living. Uncontrollable government money printing and spending, curiously, has an upward tilting influence on inflation.
But Harris insists she has a “vision,” including a “plan.” Harris and her far left running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, finally released the plan right before the debate. It’s more of a Big Government mission statement. It speaks to the “aspirations, dreams, the hopes, the ambition of the American people,” a phrase Harris used so many times during the debate that had it been part of a drinking game the unfortunate players imbibing to the phrase would have been hospitalized with alcohol poisoning.
Harris pledges to “create an opportunity economy,” whatever the hell that means. If it’s the same kind of “opportunities” Biden-Harris have presided over since 2021, Americans will be in a lot more trouble. Spoiler alert: it is. Harris is pitching a good vibes-style spending bender filled with a buffet of government handouts. A massive $6,000 child tax credit (quite a concession from a woman who is making the core of her campaign about unlimited abortions). A $50,000 tax deduction for start-up businesses. A $25,000 down payment for first-time homebuyers.
Who’s going to pay for all of this generosity? Why, you are, of course. Multiple times. In higher inflation and higher taxes. And your grandchildren and their’s will pay for it, too.
Strength Through Weakness (Incompetence)
Harris says she believes in “what we can do together that is about sustaining America’s standing in the world and ensuring we have the respect that we so rightly deserve, including respecting our military and ensuring we have the most lethal fighting force in the world.”
The great superpower has become the laughing stock of the world. That happens when you infuse leftist identity politics into your military and place Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies over discipline, morale and security. Of course, the United States Armed Forces left behind billions of dollars of arms amid the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago, weapons that are being used by the Taliban. Also unforgivably left behind were thousands of Americans and Afghan allies, including 13 service members dead at the hands of am ISIS-K terrorist. Biden-Harris can’t even stand with the mothers and fathers and families of those brave troops killed in action.
Are You Okay?
In her closing remarks, Harris noted that she began her career as a prosecutor (Yes, I thought I heard a similar sounding word, too). She rose to California attorney general, U.S. senator and, four years ago, the DEI vice presidential pick of another older man in her life who offered her the allure of power.
“And I’ll tell you, as a prosecutor I never asked a victim or a witness ‘Are you a Republican or a Democrat?’ The only thing I ever asked them, ‘Are you okay?’” Harris said.
And that really is the question, isn’t it? Are you okay? Are you better or worse off after the Biden-Harris governing experiment?
Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, are campaigning on that question — and another.
“So, she just started by saying she’s going to do this, she’s going to do that, she’s going to do all these wonderful things. Why hasn’t she done it?” Trump said in his closing arguments. “She’s been there for 3 1/2 years. They’ve had 3 1/2 years to fix the border. They’ve had 3 1/2 years to create jobs and all the things we talked about. Why hasn’t she done it?”
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
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