Kamala Harris has a major problem heading into Tuesday night’s debate against Donald Trump. That is, she must deceive voters into buying her message that it’s time to move on from the status quo — when she is the status quo.
Following her falsehood-laden speech at the Democrat National Convention and lone sit-down interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, it’s become clear that Harris, the sitting vice president, is attempting to frame herself as the candidate of “change.” By regurgitating generic phrases like, “It’s time to turn the page,” the Democrat nominee hopes to sell the illusion that Trump — who hasn’t been in office for nearly four years — is to blame for the catastrophic failures wrought by the Biden-Harris administration.
The anti-speech New York Times underscored this “conundrum” in a Monday article, with authors Katie Rogers and Erica Green noting how Harris “will have to decide how much to embrace or distance herself from President Biden and his policies at a moment when polls show that many Americans are hungry for change.” Of course, these “reporters” eagerly sanitized the widespread economic suffering caused by the Biden-Harris agenda, writing that one of Harris’ “most glaring vulnerabilities … is an economy that is stable but whose benefits many voters say they cannot feel.”
But Harris can’t “turn the page” when her name is written all over it. Try as she might to distance herself from Biden, Harris can’t negate the fact that she’s been riding shotgun next to the man
