When I first saw this article, my first thought was surprise – surprise that Democratic lawmakers are publicly admitting that they want presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to hide from voters what political agenda she intends to pursue if she wins in November. Desperation? Sounds like it.
It also sounds like Democrats are afraid they could lose votes in both the Senate and the House, as well as the presidential election itself, if Harris speaks openly about the radical “solutions” she envisions to reverse the abject failure of the four-year Biden administration.
Representative Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH), chair of the centrist New Democrats, so much admitted to Politico:
She doesn’t have to negotiate against herself. We have the biggest tent possible right now. I don’t think there’s any real reason for her to try to weed out any viewpoints at the moment.
Translation: “It does not need to be specific yet. It is in our best interest that it remains as vague as possible so as not to scare off moderate voters. If they true intentions, Moderates and independents will run from her faster than Michael Moore runs from a Weight Watchers representative.”
A Democratic congressman from a swing district told Politico:
She [voters] know very little about who she is and what her real job is. They know Trump. They know what his policies are. They don’t know Kamala. And so Kamala has a lot of room to define herself right now.
You’re damn right, you don’t know them, and you want to keep it that way – until it’s too behind schedule.
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Warnings against revealing “too much too soon” seem to resonate with Team Harris.
Several people with knowledge of the situation told According to the Washington Journal, campaign advisers are reluctant to make public “sensitive details” of their economic plan because the details could negatively impact the election campaign.
“Instead, they expect small shifts in emphasis that highlight her resume and priorities” to hidden the details of her agenda, “as some Democrats fear that releasing a detailed plan could expose the vice president to criticism from Republicans and members of her party,” the Journal reported.
On the other hand…
“Kamala must stop insulting the intelligence of voters and speak for herself to explain why she is running from every liberal policy she has ever supported,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, sharply criticizing Harris. “The mainstream media must stop complicit in her lies and demand answers,” as Breitbart News reported in the story linked above.
Memo to Karoline: That won’t happen.
Here is more from Politico:
Most Democrats acknowledge that Harris will need to round out her platform as the campaign progresses, even if she doesn’t have to lay out a plan for every issue. Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who lost to Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance in the Senate in 2022 and ran against Harris in the 2020 presidential primary, said Harris will need to lay out more policy priorities “at some point” but shouldn’t feel pressured to do so yet.
“It probably needs to do something about inflation and cost reduction, but it has already done the reindustrialization,” he said, pointing to Biden administration achievements such as the Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan legislation to boost the domestic semiconductor industry.
Surprisingly, even Senator Bernie Sanders (I) of Vermont is urging Harris to develop her economic program to win over working-class voters. Sanders told Politico that the likely Democratic nominee “can be proud to build on the economic record of the Biden administration,” adding:
As poll after poll has shown, pursuing policies that benefit working-class voters is also good politics.
Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. You don’t understand. Course Harris is proud to run on the miserable failure of Bidenomics. Look, if you proudly impose “communist” style price controls, how could you not Be?
