Six days after embattled Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election campaign, Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democrat nominee. Yet, according to a new poll, large majorities of registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Biden in 2020 — precisely those who Harris will need in November — remain clueless about her past controversial and radical positions.
The troubling question is will it make a difference? We'll get there.
According to a significant new Media Research Center poll, when asked about ten different aspects of Harris’ public record — on issues as varied as her sponsorship of the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, and eliminating private health insurance — between 71 percent and 86 percent Democrats and Independents surveyed said they either had not heard of Harris’s position or were unsure what they are.
Here's more:
When these voters were asked about where they got most of their news about political elections and candidates, by far the top answers were broadcast television (ABC, CBS and NBC) or cable news (such as CNN and MSNBC). This suggests that the knowledge gaps found by our poll reveal a failure of these outlets to report on radical positions once (and perhaps currently) supported by the now-Democratic nominee for President.
In fact, a detailed Media Research Center examination of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage in the three weeks since Harris became the leading Democratic candidate (July 21 to August 10) shows eight of these ten issues received ZERO attention from these newscasts, while two others received only minor coverage.
Try to control your shock and amazement, right?
The bottom line is that the so-called "mainstream" media are hiding Harris.
And why wouldn't they try to hide her? Among the ten issues MRC examined, the following should be the most troubling to all voters:
Defunding the Police
So how'd that little social experiment work out in Democrat-run cities across America in the aftermath of the George Floyd riots? Yet, Harris told a Los Angeles radio show host she favored cutting police funding.
According to ABC News, Harris “told Power 106 Los Angeles host Nick Cannon that she believes ‘we have to redirect resources’ from police to other areas of government, mentioning schools and small businesses.”
“For too long, people have confused achieving public safety with putting more cops on the street,” Harris said in the same interview.
Entering the U.S. Illegally Should Not Be a Crime
So the "border czar" who won't admit she was the border czar doesn't think aliens entering the U.S. in violation of U.S. immigration laws should be charged with the crime of... entering the country illegally. In 2015, as California's attorney general, Harris said:
I’m a career prosecutor. I’ve personally prosecuted everything from low-level offenses to homicides. Unfortunately, I know what crime looks like. I know what a criminal looks like who’s committing a crime. An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.
Uh-huh, Kamala. And what do you call those "undocumented immigrants" after they commit violent, sometimes horrific crimes after they get here?
Harris started a fund to bail out violent protesters during the George Floyd riots
Unless you're a violent protester, why would you not oppose this madness? On June 1, 2020, then-Senator Harris posted posted a message on both Facebook and Twitter promoting the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a nonprofit: “If you’re able to, chip in now to to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” "Protesting"?
Allowing death row inmates to vote
At an April 22, 2019 “town hall” event on CNN, Harris was asked if she would want “people who are in — convicted, in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should be allowed to vote?” She wouldn't say no, instead saying: “I think we should have that conversation.”
Named the most liberal senator in 2019
While the rabid left might view the above as a badge of honor, moderate Democrats, and certainly Independents, should not. The goals of the far-left are hardly the goals of mainstream America, regardless of political affiliation.
Price controls might sound like a panacea to low-information leftists, but hardworking Americans and people with even a basic understanding of economics should shudder at the thought.
The Biden Border Crisis has wreaked havoc on America. Is there any doubt that it would continue under a Kamala Harris presidency? That it would potentially only worsen? That it would continue to impact the blue-collar job market?
Look, I understand the "orange man bad," thing. I really do. The question is, is "hatred" for one man more important to some people than saving this country from the rabid left?
Ominously, I think it is.