CNN hosted a town hall with Kamala Harris Wednesday night, and it went about as poorly as you’d expect.
When she wasn’t avoiding questions prospective voters asked her, the Democrat presidential nominee was delivering nonsensical answers when host Anderson Cooper confronted her over her radical left-wing positions. Needless to say, it was like watching a real-life, female version of Michael Scott from “The Office” on stage.
The most revealing moment of the night, however, came when Harris was asked how her presidency would differ from that of Joe Biden’s. Like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming car, the vice president had no real answer to give.
She shot off generic statements about how her presidency “will not be a continuation of the Biden administration,” saying that she represents “a new generation of leadership on a number of issues,” but didn’t specify how her administration would be different. The Democrat presidential nominee was thoroughly incapable of differentiating herself from Biden — and therein lies her biggest problem.
It’s been obvious since the launch of her candidacy that Harris is seeking to cast former President Donald Trump — who hasn’t been in office for four years — as the incumbent responsible for the crises unleashed by the Biden-Harris administration. Town hall viewers saw this strategy Wednesday night, as many of the vice president’s responses to questions reverted back to why she thinks Trump is a dictator who would destroy America as we know it.
But despite having months to come up with a concrete explanation of how a President Kamala Harris would handle issues differently than Biden, the Democrat presidential nominee still doesn’t have an answer. Her “It’s time to turn the page” platitudes offer no assurances to voters that things would change under her watch.
Beyond her inability to act like a normal human being, the main reason Harris is incapable of differentiating herself from Biden is that she would follow the exact same game plan if elected president. A Harris-Walz administration would be staffed with the same extreme leftists currently driving the country off a cliff. Without a doubt, Americans would get another four years of destructive Democrat policies under a Harris presidency.
With a lapdog media, Harris could have easily lied to voters and spent the past several months crafting a coherent message that outlines what she views to be the administration’s biggest successes and specific solutions to problems not yet addressed. But doing so would require the minimum level of competency required to be a political candidate, a feature the vice president severely lacks.
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
Comments are closed.