Vice President Kamala Harris has said many things that aren’t true over the course of her hasty run for president. On Thursday evening, her mucho lies were translated in Spanish.
With just 26 days until the election, Harris took the stage for a town hall with supposedly undecided Hispanic voters — a production of Noticias Univision, the news division of U.S. Spanish-language television network Univision. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows former President Donald Trump closing the gap with Harris among Hispanic voters. Harris is up by a remarkably narrow 5 percentage points.
When the Democrat wasn’t affecting awkward “Latinx,” accents she was reinventing history, revising her horrific public service record, and outright lying about her party’s phony reverence for “democracy.”
The question is: Will the Hispanic voters she desperately needs to win the White House buy Harris’ teatro politico?
‘The Work That I Have Always Done’
Let’s begin with immigration.
Carlos Garcia of Yuma, Arizona, asked the question on a lot of voters’ minds this election: What would Harris do differently from her boss, President Joe Biden, in fixing the border crisis? As Carlos hinted at, Harris would have to fix a problem the Biden-Harris administration created.
It’s the kind of question Harris and her “knucklehead” running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have run away from — or sidestepped thanks to an accomplice media rooting for continued Democrat control of the White House. Harris had to answer this time. What was her response?
“I was just recently in Arizona at the border,” she said. Harris was in Arizona. Campaigning. She has no other choice. Arizona is a critical battleground state that she desperately needs if she wants to realize her dream of being the first black, South Asian, female abortion-on-demand socialist president of the United States.
Biden’s No. 2, as the record makes clear, had a helluva time finding the border during her tenure as the administration’s “border czar.” But with unprecedented millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the American Southwest thanks to Biden-Harris open border policies, Harris was too busy trying to figure out the “root causes” of illegal immigration.
She insisted that her record as a prosecutor, including her stint as California’s attorney general, is the just the salve the country needs to heal the mess she helped make as vice president. And she turned once again to a mythical, bipartisan “border security” bill backed by RINOs and politically opportunistic Democrats that would have done little to stop the flood of illegal immigrants that Biden welcomed with open arms through scores of fiats reversing Trump’s executive orders curtailing illegal immigration.
“I will put my record up against anyone in terms of the work that I have always done and will always do to ensure we have a secure border,” she said. Talk about the audacity of delusion.
Let’s take a look at Harris’ record. How about the time in 2018 when the leftist joined protesters chanting, “Down, down with deportation!” Or in 2019, when she made her first run for the White House. Harris called Trump’s border wall a “medieval vanity project” and a “complete waste of money” that “won’t make us any safer.” In 2017, as a senator, Harris said she would block funding for it. Now that a majority of Americans support completing construction and 55 percent want to see less immigration, Harris insists she’s all in on walls and checking the flow of illegal aliens.
She’s definitely upside down on illegal immigration with U.S. Hispanics. A poll in June found a majority of Hispanic people favor mass deportation of foreign nationals living in the U.S. illegally. Let the crowd on the Noticias Univision town hall set get a look at Harris’ Down with Deportation dance now.
‘Honored to Have Earned’
The vice president again massaged the details of the recent past when asked by another “undecided” voter how she could “clarify” the process of her coronation as overnight Democratic Party nominee for president. As she is wont to do, Harris glossed over the fact that she was tapped following a soft coup led by big Dem donors who watched the disastrous late-June debate between Biden and Trump. George Clooney, Barack Obama, and the other leftist elitists forced out an octogenarian president clearly slipping into the throes of dementia, and Harris stepped over Biden’s political corpse to claim her crown.
Despite the fact that Biden had collected millions of votes in a rigged primary system on his way to the party’s presidential nomination, by July he was bowing out and being heralded by the same people who drove him out as a 21st century George Washington.
“President Biden made a decision I think that history will show was the most courageous that a president can make. He put country above his political interests,” Harris said, doing an excellent job keeping a straight face. Then she said, again without grinning, that she is “honored to have earned he Democratic nomination.” Venezuela’s Marxist president Nicolas Maduro also was proud to have “earned” his reelection victory in July.
‘I Come from the Working Class’
Harris was asked about what she would do about the crippling inflation that the Biden-Harris regime did much to create by championing seemingly endless borrowing-and-spending initiatives. While the vice president celebrated the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data showing easing of prices, she of course failed to note that Americans continue to pay a lot more than they did during Trump’s presidency.
“Overall, essential goods and services are more than 20 percent more expensive now than they were when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in January 2021,” my colleague Jordan Boyd wrote on Thursday.
Wendy Solares from Los Angeles told the vice president she is a middle-class American and that her grocery bills for her large family have soared from $250 to $350 per week. Harris assured Wendy that she doesn’t just want the unnecessary California voter to get by but to “get ahead.” How would Harris do that as president? By pushing a lot more borrowing and spending. Oh, and much more regulation, including on the cash-strapped small businesses she says make up the “backbone of the economy.”
Perhaps Wendy was comforted to know that Harris “comes from the working class” and that she’s “never going to forget where she comes from.”
While Harris has been near the top of American politics for nearly four years, she wants voters to believe that she is “the change that we seek.” The vice president is absolutely right when she says that there are two very distinct choices in this election. Indeed “one is about the future and the other is about the past and taking us backward.” She just fails to recognize that where we are right now is a place called backward, and she and Joe Biden left us for dead here.
‘Your Vote is Your Voice’
The presidential hopeful, as always, leaned hard into the fatuous claim that she and her leftist friends will defend democracy while Republicans and Trump, should Americans give him another term, will destroy it. That’s an interesting premise from the standard bearer of a party that has repeatedly attempted to imprison its leading political opponent and unconstitutionally erase him from the ballot. The left has unsuccessfully sought to silence Donald Trump, to the point of attempting to kill him.
Harris told a first-time voter, “Your vote is your voice.” It’s an empty slogan from a woman who has dutifully served an administration that has worked with Big Tech and corporate media to kill conservative speech, particularly speech that is inconvenient to the regime.
Laughably, Harris told Thursday’s town hall attendees that Donald Trump would “weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies.” If he did, Trump would simply be following the operational plan of the Biden-Harris administration, or as the vice president likes to call it, “supporting democracy and the Constitution.”
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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