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Kamala Harris remains closely linked to Biden’s failing administration, unable to distance herself.


She came, she saw, she flopped.

Kamala Harris had one job Tuesday night — to separate herself from the last four years of a failed administration and make a persuasive case that the next four years under her leadership would be like night and day.

Achieving both goals would pose a challenge to even the most gifted and sincere candidate. Because Harris is neither, her claim that she’s ready for a promotion fell flat.

No thanks, no sale.

She certainly gave it her best shot. Although her speech was predictably heavy on the dangers Donald Trump supposedly represents, it was otherwise good enough to serve as a closing argument, and her delivery was nearly flawless.

She sounded strong and looked almost as confident as when she delivered her acceptance speech at the party convention in ­Chi­cago.

Shadows looming

But a lot has changed since then and Tuesday offered no escape from the two shadows looming over her. One is Joe Biden, arguably the worst president in modern times and among the most unpopular.

To this day, Harris cannot say what she would do differently from Biden, which simultaneously makes her a blank slate and a full partner in a disastrous term.

Even the setting of her speech — the Washington Ellipse, with the White House in the background — was a reminder of that baggage.

It was an odd choice, with Biden just hundreds of yards away, perhaps watching her on television try to run away from him and their administration.


Harris, left, and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff during a campaign event on the Ellipse of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024.
Harris and Doug Emhoff during a campaign event on the Ellipse of the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. Bloomberg via Getty Images

She can’t get away with it because she often concedes she was the last person in the room with him for such terrible decisions as the deadly bug-out from Afghanistan.

Worse, she won’t admit a single mistake they made, which is an affront to the many millions of voters unhappy with the administration’s tenure, especially the Gold Star families and those who lost loved ones to illegal-migrant killers.

The other shadow looming over her, of course, is Trump, whose presidency was a roaring success compared to the last four years.

He has compounded her problems with a withering onslaught of criticism and by laying out specific and credible plans on the top issues — the economy, inflation, the border and America’s place in the world.

Nearly every poll shows that a majority of voters trust him more on those issues and believe they were better off with him in the Oval Office.

That Harris couldn’t escape the shadow of either Biden or Trump tells me she has run out of fresh arguments for her election. With early voting in full swing and Election Day next Tuesday, this was her last best chance to redefine herself, and she didn’t do it.

Count it as one of many missed opportunities. Having wasted precious weeks hiding from the media and refusing to lay out specific policies she would pursue, she believed all she had to do was go scorched earth on Trump.

Her assumption seems to have been that the legacy media would amplify her message and that by now she would be cruising toward victory. The media did their part, but, thankfully, they no longer have enough public power to pick presidents.

Given her hatred for Trump, and the party’s dog whistles for violence, it’s also not unreasonable to believe Harris might actually have thought an assassin would solve her problems.

Although she finally dispensed Tuesday with the most odious references to Hitler and Nazis, she didn’t go cold turkey. Like a junkie, she needs her fix of calling Trump a “petty tyrant,” a “wannabe dictator,” and accused him of being “unstable” and “obsessed with revenge.”


Onlookers on the National Mall during a campaign event with US Vice President Kamala Harris, not pictured, on the Ellipse of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024.Source link

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