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‘Who is Kamala Harris?’ John Stossel won’t let the veep ‘unburden’ herself from past positions

August 23, 2024 | | Print Article

Vice President Kamala Harris has come under fire for not telling voters where she stands on today’s important issues, but thanks to John Stossel, she won’t have to.

Regardless of what Harris said during her Democratic National Convention speech, what she has previously said and done is still of critical importance.

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“Who is Kamala Harris? She won’t hold news conferences and rarely takes questions from reporters. Instead, she reads the same speech off teleprompter again and again,” Stossel opens by asking if the policies Harris supports would actually allow for the “joy” and prosperity she claims to want for America.

“America’s on track to bankruptcy, Harris repeatedly casts tie-breaking votes to spend more of your money. Last election I ran a gameshow that compared candidates’ spending plans. It found that Trump and Biden wanted to increase spending by more than $200 billion, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders by trillions!” Stossel recalled. “But I was surprised that the biggest spending plans came from Kamala Harris. Her proposals would have exploded the debt our debt.”

According to the “gameshow,” Kamala’s policies would have resulted in an estimated $4.162 trillion in additional debt, something that Americans who currently struggle to make ends meet might see as disastrous.

“Biden’s irresponsible spending ignited nasty inflation,” Stossel continued. “Imagine what inflation would be like if Harris had been president. In her first policy speech, she’s proposed almost $2 trillion in new spending. And $2 trillion is small compared to what she wanted to do during COVID. Give every American $2,000 a month, that would have cost $21 trillion.”

Previously, Harris expressed unabashed support for abolishing private healthcare, something her campaign now says she isn’t pushing for. She also was for a fracking ban before she was against it, as well as a mandatory gun buyback program that she is no longer interested in.

“So who is the real Kamala Harris?” Stossel asks. “She used to brag about being a tough prosecutor, against even the smallest offenses. But then, when progressives said ‘abolish the police’, she flip-flopped. And during the George Floyd riots, when people were looting and setting fires, Harris tweeted ‘help post bail for those protesting’.”

“Now that the policing pendulum has swung back, she again brags bout locking people up. During the 2019 Democratic debate, Tulsi Gabbard pointed out her hypocrisy,” he noted. “Another criticism of Harris is that she’s nasty to people who work for her. Politico called her office ‘abusive … not a healthy environment.’ Now if she were a hard-charging boss who got results, that might be okay, but we know what happened when Biden put her in charge of the border.”

“Today, the legacy media want to protect Harris because they hate Trump so much. They were more honest when Harris ran against other Democrats,” Stossel said, playing a clip of a 60 Minutes interview with Harris where she was confronted on being “the most liberal senator” according to nonpartisan govtrack.us.

“Harris needs this media cover because she says weird things,” he added, playing a montage of Harris’s favorite nonsense saying: “What can be, unburned by what has been.”

Ultimately, Stossel points out that term limits and checks and balances will help to protect Americans if either the “big government opportunist” or the “crass egomaniac” that is former President Donald Trump is elected.

But still, the question remains: Who is Kamala Harris?

Sierra Marlee
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