Kamala Harris is the most left wing major party candidate for the presidency in post-World War II America
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Vice President Kamala Harris gave a nice, no-calorie acceptance speech last week. She said nothing about her two substantive policy proposals to date—price controls and a Publishers Clearinghouse-style giveaway of $25,000 for first time new home buyers—and steered clear of formal repudiation of her 2019 presidential campaign platform. (As Senator Tom Cotton pointed out repeatedly to ABC’s Jonathan Karl Sunday, Harris has not said a word about her alleged repudiation of her 2019 proposal to abolish employer-provided health care and a move to "Medicare for All." An unnamed staffer has told some media outlets that she no longer believes that, but she herself has not said so, and what she does believe about health care policy we do not know.)
Harris has been the nominee of the Democratic Party for 36 days and has not given an interview or taken any serious questions. Her acceptance speech was a dance of GOP cliches—yes, Republican go-to talk like "opportunity society"—and represented a very calculated misdirection from her actual record. But we do know that as senator she was once rated as the most liberal member of the Senate. We know that during her 2019 presidential campaign she vowed to close illegal immigrant detention centers "Absolutely. On Day 1."
We also know she was charged, explicitly by President Biden with