James Antle of the Washington Examiner focuses on Vice President Kamala Harris’ approach to the Biden administration’s record during her presidential campaign.
One of the defining issues of the 2024 campaign will be whether Vice President Kamala Harris can successfully escape President Joe Biden’s shadow.
Harris is running as Biden’s successor. The reason she has been anointed the Democratic nominee without going through the primary process and has inherited the Biden-Harris campaign funds is that she is Biden’s vice president. Her nearly four years in that office are implicitly a big part of what has prepared her to move up.
But it wasn’t just age that hobbled Biden’s reelection campaign, though that is what ultimately proved politically fatal. Voters were broadly unhappy with Biden’s record on most of the issues defining the election, including the economy and immigration.That’s why Harris has already tried to redefine herself on the border. Next up is an attempt to flip the script on the economy, with a coming speech on higher prices and her own agenda.
“She will lay out an approach relatively light on details,” the New York Times reported being told by sources familiar. “It will shift emphasis from Mr. Biden’s focus on job creation and made-in-America manufacturing, and toward efforts to rein in the cost of living. But it will rarely break from Mr. Biden on substance.”
“Light on detail” appears even in the story’s headline.
Other accounts suggested a starker Harris economic rebrand.
“Now, she wants to be not-Biden on inflation — arguably the biggest domestic topic of this campaign — by proposing clearer, more urgent solutions,” Axios reported. “Harris doesn’t want to be completely defined by the Biden-Harris record, advisers tell us.”
You don’t say?
A major task of former President Donald Trump’s campaign is to not let her get away with this.
