Harris fails to cast a vision for helping to improve American lives
Editor:
Since President Biden has ended his presidential bid for 2024, Americans are now faced with the probability that Kamala Harris will be vying for that title.
I think many Americans would agree that they did not want Biden to drop out of the race, because Kamala Harris’s political resume doesn’t offer much. Her tenure in the Senate was unexceptional. Her own 2019 bid for President was so pitiful that she didn’t make it to a single primary. Her time as VP has been filled with cringeworthy remarks and staff disorder.
Of course her biggest failure has been the border. When she was interviewed by Lester Holt (NBC), he approached her on why she hadn’t been to the border. With her signature hyena laugh, she devalued the importance of that visit. Again to sidestep the question, she awkwardly tried to compare not visiting the border to not going to Europe. Sorry Kamala, as usual, you made no sense.
The Washington Post cited her attempt to downplay the urgency of the visit. It took her months to go there. In 2023 the Border Patrol Union condemned her for lack of progress. The illegal immigration exploded to levels never seen before. Biden and the White House were pressured to issue a statement insisting that the President did depend on Kamala Harris, but in reality her reputation has never fully recovered.
When she is faced with a question she can not answer, she talks in circles and repeats some buzz words which then brings her back to square one with the audience wondering what the heck she’s talking about. Her rhetorical blindsides and political gaffes have even her constituents wondering what makes up her mission.
Over and over she has failed to present her vision for America and actually explain to voters how she would make their lives better. Good government servants spend years honing this skill. At times she seems unable to elaborate on her own policies.
In regard to defunding the police, Harris lauded the “defund the police movement” in June of 2020 during a radio interview. It was even on the record that she heaped tons of praise on then Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcelli for reducing $150 million from the police budget and relocating much of that into social services.
However, when Biden chose her as his VP, she suddenly supported increasing police funding.
She has demonstrated unbelievable ineptitude and has not come close to fulfilling her assignments and accountability. She did not uphold the immigration laws, causing much suffering to the American people.
How she is going to turn this all around will be quite a magic act. The party will try and reinvent her as an articulate, intelligent politician who will get the job done, but all her unfinished jobs and inaction should speak volumes to the American people.
Mary Mager
Fairport, formerly of Albion
