No.1: Harris owns the border
Despite attempts by the liberal media to claw back Harris's appointment as Biden's 'border czar', it is indisputably true that she was deputized as such.
'Harris, appointed by Biden as border czar, said she would be looking at the 'root causes' that drive migration' – that's a report from Axios dated April 14, 2021.
By the end of this administration, an estimated 10 million migrants will have crossed into the United States illegally.
Among those are potentially hundreds of known terrorists. And then there's the unknown number of 'gotaways' who have evaded border control.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Fox News on Monday that Harris has contacted him 'zero times' throughout her tenure.
Here's Harris during her infamous June 2021 interview with NBC's Lester Holt, who asked why she still hadn't been to the border:
Harris: 'We've been to the border.'
Holt: 'You haven't been to the border.'
Harris: 'I haven't been to Europe.' [Awkward cackling] 'I don't understand the point that you're making.'
No.2: She has repeatedly vouched for Biden's physical and cognitive health
Harris has done this for years, insisting as recently as February that 'we have a very bold and vibrant president in Joe Biden… Our president is in good shape, in good health, and is ready to lead in our second term'.
There are only two explanations for this: Either Harris was kept so far out of the president's loop, privy to nothing of importance, that she had no idea he was in such terrible shape.
Or, more likely to my mind, she lied to the American people out of self-interest.
No.3: She's an alleged bully
Since taking office as VP, Harris has had a staff turnover rate of almost 92 percent, according to a top government watchdog.
Such churn-and-burn has apparently been a Harris hallmark throughout her two decades in public service.
She is reportedly well-known for cursing out her staff, for chasing her most talented hires out the door, and refusing to read her briefing books, then exploding at her staff for being unprepared.
'It's clear that you're not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,' one ex-staffer told the Washington Post in 2021. 'With Kamala, you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you're constantly sort of propping up a bully and it's not really clear why.'
Again, Harris shares these failings — the alleged lashings-out at loyal staff, the tantrums and the blame-shifting — with President Biden. It all speaks to someone intellectually, and interpersonally incapable of executing the most stressful job in the world.
No.4: Even for a politician, she's particularly craven
After accusing Biden of backing historically racist policies during a televised June 2019 presidential debate — causing Biden to reportedly say during a commercial break, 'Well, that was some f***ing bull****', and forever earning the enmity of Jill Biden — Harris, who dropped out of that race with a 3 percent approval rating, accepted his VP slot.
Biden, remember, caved to pressure to select a black woman as his running mate.
She has also shamelessly shape-shifted from being a tough-on-crime prosecutor, who oversaw more than 1,900 marijuana convictions, to a pro-defund-the-police ally.
Now, of course, she's backtracking once more, tacking center, and boasting of her time in law enforcement.
No.5: Zero foreign policy experience and zero backbone
Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, is Jewish, yet Harris caves to the radicals in her own party, refusing to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wartime address to Congress last week.
When she finally did meet him, Harris warned Netanyahu that 'I will not be silent' over Gaza and that while Israel 'has the right to defend itself' (how condescending), 'how it does so matters'.
Days later, Hezbollah launched rockets into an Israeli playground, killing 12 children and injuring many more.
No.6: No stated premise or philosophy
'We're not going back' is the emerging Harris slogan, and I will say this – it's ingenious.
It allows the voter to project whatever meaning they like, and for women, many will surely interpret this as a call to restore reproductive rights in full. Such is the minefield the Trump-Vance ticket must navigate.
That said, Harris has no existential reason for running. She has no record, no real cause to show after four years as VP.
Right now, she's running on the fumes of relief and emotion, the attempt to turn her into your 'cool wine aunt', a Gen Z 'brat' who is messy and relatable – but this all has a very short shelf life.
If Kamala Harris can't project confidence, purpose and a real, actionable agenda, she will remain nothing but a figurehead — another empty suit that the true Dem powerbrokers put forward as their latest useful idiot.
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