Joe Concha writes for the New York Post about a problem for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
After five weeks of slobbering media coverage akin to the rhetorical version of a hot stone massage, Kamala Harris finally left the bubble that has carried her to record fundraising and competitive poll numbers with Donald Trump in key swing states.
And then the bubble burst.
The candidacy of the past 40 days as the Democratic nominee has been almost out of an Artificial Intelligence creation.
Harris was not allowed to speak to the press, nor was her running mate, Tim Walz.
Everything was packaged, scripted and homogenized.
When the candidates did speak, they were guided by their new god: a teleprompter.
But now they had to take questions from CNN’s Dana Bash.
And even with their hands practically being held after the anchor asked questions that included multiple-choice answers and little follow-up, the potential president and veep fumbled and lied during the relatively short 18 minute, pre-taped interview.
Harris especially hurt herself in the places it matters most: Those key swing states.
Take Harris’s answer on her flip-flopping on a myriad of issues: “Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris replied.
“You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I’ve worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”
Yes. We should include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. That’s literally the definition of a deadline.
And if Harris believes the “climate crisis” is real and her values haven’t changed, then shouldn’t we believe the 2019 version of Kamala Harris when she declared she would absolutely ban fracking, end the fossil fuel industry and end all offshore drilling?
