One thing we learned about Kamala Harris during this campaign is that she's just as roundheeled about her policy positions as she was at Willie Brown's knee. She'll say (or do) anything to get elected.
That's why she was for gun control until she was against it. She was against fracking until she was for it (and against it again) She put taxes on tips through her tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act -- and then came out against taxes on tips, following President Trump's call for it. She was for defunding the police until she was against it. She was against the border wall until she was for it.
She seems to know what every popular policy position is, and has changed her radical left-wing stances accordingly.
But there's one exception she won't budge on.
According to Breitbart News:
Vice President Kamala Harris refused to say whether or not she would vote for California’s Proposition 36 because “it’s the Sunday before the election.”
Harris’s refusal to articulate a position on the measure underscores her strategy to not irritate the radical left while trying to remain ambiguous to attract moderates.
California’s Proposition 36 would give drug traffickers and serial shoplifters tougher penalties.
To say she's anything but against it is nonsense. Polls show that 75% of Californians are in favor of this measure, which raises penalties on smash-and-grab criminals plaguing the state. It would cost her nothing to come out in favor of this bill, voters, in fact, would eat it up.
But she won't.
That tells us a couple of funny things are going on.
One, she sees no advantage for herself in endorsing Prop 36. She's got the state in the bag, why should she upset her most valued radical leftist supporters? Those are the people she identifies with beause she is the one.
Two, she's thinking of the next election, and seeking to preserve at least a crumb of credibility with her donor classes, the better to raise funds for the next run.
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