Yesterday, Kamala Harris did more damage to her campaign than any ad from Donald Trump could ever hope to do.
She went on 'The View' as part of a 'media blitz' that included Stephen Colbert, Howard Stern, the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast and '60 Minutes' in order to be seen by the public in the weeks before the election.
While on 'The View', Kamala was asked a softball question: 'What would you have done differently than Joe Biden?'
Her answer?
No, really.
So perhaps it's unfair to call it a softball question for Kamala. For any other politician, it was. Yet Kamala Harris has proven -- time and again -- she cannot answer even the easiest of questions.
Since getting into the race (after helping unceremoniously ousting Joe Biden), Kamala has been Schrödinger's candidate: she wants to run on her record as part of the Biden-Harris administration to help her campaign, but distance herself from the policies that are unpopular.
In some ways, I don't blame her.
The reason Joe Biden is not the candidate right now is not because of his cognitive decline. But because he was going to lose. And he was going to lose because his policies -- both foreign and domestic -- are wildly unpopular.
So the question was an important one. 'The View' gave her an opportunity to put daylight between herself and the Biden policies weighing her down. And she missed it.
And now Republicans are -- rightly -- pouncing all over this.
SCOOP: Republicans are planning to spend heavily to promote a clip of Vice President Harris saying on ABC's "The View" that there's "not a thing" she would have done differently over the past four years than President Biden. https://t.co/3XLeti7u9D
— Axios (@axios) October 9, 2024
Republicans are planning to spend heavily to promote a clip of Vice President Harris saying on ABC's "The View" that there's "not a thing" she would have done differently over the past four years than President Biden.
Why it matters: Republicans see Biden's record on immigration and the economy as Harris' top vulnerability, and are eager to undercut the vice president's image as the candidate of "change."
- "Expect to see this clip every single time you turn on the television between now and Nov. 5," a top Trump ally told Axios.
How it happened: Asked in Tuesday's interview if there's anything she would have done differently than Biden, Harris replied, "there is not a thing that comes to mind."
I have long said the way Trump wins this election is focusing on the issues: the economy, illegal immigration, foreign policy.
The economy is the biggest one, because inflation -- which has slowed but is still significantly higher than when Biden-Harris took office -- impacts everyone. Everyone buys food. And gas. And other goods. It's especially a regressive tax on lower-income Americans who can't shoulder a 50% price hike for things like bread and beef.
Tying Kamala Harris to the Biden policies that were leading him to certain electoral defeat is the way to derail Kamala's campaign.
Remind the voters that Kamala is half of the Biden-Harris administration, and that she's had the opportunity to enact her plans for the last three-plus years.
She didn't.
She'll argue this is because she's only the Vice President, and she can only enact change once she's in the Oval Office.
But that's a lie.
How do we know that's a lie? Because she just said -- in front of millions of people watching 'The View' -- that she wouldn't do anything different than Joe Biden.
So why should voters elect someone who will continue the disastrous policies of the last four years?
They shouldn't. And, thanks to Kamala's failed media blitz, they won't.
