A week ago, the Harris-Walz camp tried to pre-empt a visit by Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance to the swing state of Michigan by declaring that Democratic presidential candidate Harris does not support a mandate for electric car employ.
One thing Vance would likely claim during his Michigan trip is that “Vice President Harris wants to force every American to own an electric vehicle,” according to The Spectator. reported at that time.
“Vice President Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate,” Ammar Moussa, the campaign’s rapid response director, said, according to the report.
It was quite an eye-opening statement, as we noted, considering their previous support for such mandates – including her co-sponsorship of the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019 and her even broader positions on electric vehicle and climate change mandates (to the tune of over $10 trillion) during her failed 2020 presidential campaign.
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Because Harris and her staff have been extremely evasive about policy talk and details, news channel Axios asked her shortly after the statement was released whether it meant that if she won the election, she would either oppose or sign the 2019 bill she signed, should it ever land on her desk.
After a brief back and forth with the reporter, it took a week for the campaign to officially respond to the request. Their response? No comment:
Harris’ campaign sent mixed signals about her stance on a mandate for automakers – a key issue in key Midwestern states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, where many auto workers are located.
- In a lengthy “fact-check” email last week covering several issues, a campaign spokesperson included a line saying Harris “does not support an electric vehicle mandate” – suggesting she had changed her previous position without elaborating.
- On August 28, Axios asked the Harris team for clarification on her position and whether she would sign or veto a 2019 bill she co-sponsored that included such a requirement for manufacturers.
- On Tuesday afternoon, Harris’ campaign team ultimately declined to comment.
New: The Harris team wrote in an email that they do not support “any electric vehicle mandate.”
I asked if that meant she would either sign or veto the 2019 bill she co-sponsored that includes such a requirement for manufacturers.
The campaign declined to commenthttps://t.co/ogOwDdDD99
– Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) 4 September 2024
I asked the campaign team last Wednesday whether she would sign or veto the 2019 bill if elected.
After some back and forth, the campaign team ultimately declined to comment on Tuesday.– Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) 4 September 2024
Just pathetic. This is what happens when you rely on campaign staff and officials to speak for you instead of speaking for yourself. But then again, we’re talking about Kamala Harris, an officeholder who causes even more confusion than her staff when she acts like she knows what she’s talking about.
Interestingly, in such cases, Harris chastises her staff for the mistakes she makes in speeches and interviews. She blames them for the fact that she is not a political expert and does not like to delve too deeply into the details.
The Washington Post, of all places let the cat out of the bag in December 2021:
Staff members who worked for Harris before she became vice president said a consistent problem was that Harris refused to intervene in briefing materials prepared by staff and then berated staff when she appeared unprepared.
“It’s clear you’re not working with someone who’s willing to do the preparation and the work,” said one former aide. “With Kamala, you’re constantly having to deal with soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly supporting a tyrant, and it’s not really clear why.”
In other words, Harris can’t be bothered to do due diligence on everything she speaks about publicly. She expects to be able to churn out common talking points and catchphrases that will make the media and left-wing activist scene go wild, and if she later embarrasses herself, it’s the hard-working staff behind the scenes who pay the price.
If you ask me, that sounds a lot like an empty suit.
Harris is undoubtedly a radical leftist, which was evident in 2019 when she ran for president. But now she is trying to move to the center by not only changing some of her 2019 stances but also adopting some Republican themes and some of Donald Trump’s policy positions as her own, leaving her spokespeople to do the weighty lifting of explaining (very briefly) where she stands. at the moment deals with these topics (subject to change, of course).
If it feels like much of what is happening in the Harris camp is impromptu—with different factions seemingly unknowingly working against each other—that’s because it is. That should scare Americans who are diseased of having an incoherent, incompetent “leader” in the White House for nearly four years, who left the details to his staff 50 percent of the time because he couldn’t, and had the woke left pulling his strings the other 50 percent of the time.
America cannot endure four more years of this. That is the main reason why the Harris-Walz presidential campaign must end at the ballot box in November. Because the alternative is too disturbing to contemplate.
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