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New York Post
5 Sep 2024


NextImg:Kamala Harris insults Americans with her dishonest flip-flops

Kama, Kama, Kama, Kama, Kama, Kameleon.

Vice President Kamala Harris might be a woman without conviction, but she’s trying to get away with selling more than a few contradictions.

There is nothing normal about Harris’s opaque campaign for president.

On Wednesday, Axios’s Alex Thompson reported on a “lengthy ‘fact-check’ ” forwarded by the Harris team to their allies in the press revising the unpopular policy positions she articulated just a few years ago.

Among the assertions made: Harris “does not support an electric vehicle mandate.”

Of course, that’s not a fact check; it’s an announcement that the vice president has flip-flopped on an issue of enormous importance.

Back in 2019, Harris co-sponsored a bill that would have required automobile manufacturers to produce only electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles, completely phasing out the gas-powered ones that most Americans depend on by 2040.

During her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination (remember when you had to run for that?) Harris touted her support for an “accelerated model” under which that transition would be made by 2035.

Thompson, to his credit, followed up by asking if Harris would sign or veto the bill she co-sponsored just a few years ago.

The campaign didn’t respond for several days.

And when it did, it declined to comment.

So to summarize: A major party’s candidate to wield the awesome power of the executive branch is seeking to secure the political benefits of shedding an unpopular, unworkable position via press release, but refuses to answer any follow-ups about the specifics of her new position?

“I don’t support an electric vehicle mandate, but I just might sign one into law.”

Did you catch her wink there?

Harris’s doublespeak is brazen, but not entirely without political merit.

With the media behind her, she — perhaps correctly — believes that she can have her cake and eat it too.

Maybe if she “reimagines” her beliefs via edict — and not with her own voice — she can both convince moderate, independent voters to buy her backtrack away from the far-left, and get progressives to understand that once she’s in the Oval Office, she’ll rejoin the team.

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Maybe if she adopts the accent of some exaggerated caricature — “Ya betta thank a union memba for sick leave!” — in front of some crowds (but heaven forbid others) she can stop Democrats’ bleeding with that demographic.

It’s the kind of shallow, cynical approach that only someone as shameless as Harris could conceive of.

Can you imagine replying “no comment” in a job interview?

Can you imagine faking an accent you associate with your interviewer’s race?

Harris is comfortable doing all that while making the case for handing her the nuclear codes.

Politicians lie, obfuscate, twist, and change to suit their needs; this is a truth as old as it is self-evident.

But Kamala Harris’s attempt to get to November 5th without articulating a clear vision for the country — or even who she is — is so flagrantly disrespectful of the voters as to astonish even the most grizzled skeptics.

When she last ran for the White House, Harris expressed support for doing away with private health insurance, ICE, the defund the police movement, and the Green New Deal.

Now she says that while she supports none of those initiatives, her “values have not changed.”

There’s another one of those winks.

It’s no surprise that Harris wants to repent of her disastrous 2020 campaign, which actually ended in 2019.

And it would be heartening if Harris and her party were backing away from the destructive agenda it embraced in 2020.

But that backtrack is about as convincing as that sporadic accent of hers.

Harris’s insulting attempt to hold on to the crazy wing of her party while pulling moderates back in should trouble both groups, as well as raise this question: Just how little does she think of the American people?