Is Kamala Harris Lying Now, or Was She Lying Then?
The VP's contortions and flip-flops raise a critical question that ought to shape the 2024 presidential election
Is Kamala Harris Lying About Her Positions Now, Or Was She Lying Before?
In Donald Trump’s return to X, he asked perhaps the pivotal question of the 2024 election: “Are you better off now than you were when I was president?”
Perhaps second only in importance to that question is this one: “When it comes to your agenda, Vice President Kamala Harris, are you lying now, or were you lying then?” It’s a question Trump will likely have to pose to Harris himself, given the information war regime media are waging on her behalf, having coronated her as the Democrat nominee and formed a complete protective bubble around her in the weeks since.
Harris — or more precisely Harris flacks, since they have been the ones addressing questions about her policy positions — has flip-flopped on banning fracking, “decriminalizing” illegal immigration, and providing universal government health care. She seeks to unburden herself from what has been — namely serving as one of the most left-wing senators during her tenure in the upper chamber, and then as No. 2 in arguably the most radically left-wing administration in American history.
In picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate too, she has seemed to embrace a kindred spirit. This is a man who has granted all manner of taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens, who seeks to provide a ladder to help fellow prospective “newcomers” catapult over any border wall. This is a supplier of tampons to boys’ bathrooms, an installer of a Covid snitch line, a shill for socialism, and a man who allowed George Floyd rioters to set Minneapolis ablaze — with Harris promoting a bail fund for the arsonists. He too has sought to unburden himself from what has been, as illustrated in his disgraceful stolen valor scandal.
How can Harris reconcile her past anti-energy, pro-invasion, health care-system-destroying record, the record of the Biden-Harris White House that so alienated Americans that The Party was forced to jettison its chief figurehead, and the record of her VP pick, with the positions of candidate Kamala?
I answer the unanswerable in a new piece at The Federalist.