Two of Washington’s most influential newsletters inadvertently did an excellent job this week of highlighting a couple of things that are more or less two sides of the same coin: the media-generated dynamic leading up to the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, plus the drummed-up anticipation surrounding the first nationally televised interview with Kamala as the Democrat nominee.
Both newsletters, by Politico and Axios, framed their offerings as if Kamala has masterfully positioned herself to hold all the cards for both events, when in fact she’s done nothing. If anything, she should have the weaker hand with both.
Kamala is currently in the White House, leading an administration that has overseen: record levels of inflation, making middle-income earners poorer; weak wage growth, leaving middle-income earners reducing their own standards of living; and an open southern border, diverting limited government resources away from taxpaying Americans to migrants who broke our laws. That’s without mentioning the two new foreign wars directly implicating the United States and which require yet more indefinite financial sacrifice by American taxpayers, many of whom haven’t even been born.
Kamala did not go through a primary to earn her party’s nomination. She has served as vice president with record-low approval ratings. Kamala did not make it through a single primary competition of her first real run for president in 2019, dropping out before the first contest in Iowa as she polled at just 3 percent among Democrat voters. She did just have her staff anonymously
