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Going to Extremes
A Kamala Harris presidency would double down on the Democratic Party’s most far-left impulses.
J BY MATTHEW LYSIAK
oe biden’s disastrous june debate performance shone the spotlight on what had once been unthinkable — a
Kamala Harris presidency. Polling showed that after the
debate, Vice President Harris over- took Biden as the betting favorite to become the Democratic nominee for president. A poll leaked from Open Labs
showed her doing better than the pres- ident in matchups against Donald Trump.
Further, an anonymously writ-
ten Google document titled “Unbur- dened by What Has Been: The Case for Kamala” includes a scheme for a Harris presidential campaign that has been widely circulated by Demo- crat operatives. “There’s one path out of this mess,
and it’s Kamala,” the document reads. The growing chorus for Kamala
raises the question: What would a Harris presidency look like? Reporter Charlie Spiering, author
of Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House, told Newsmax that a Harris presidency would most like- ly see a doubling down on many of the Democratic Party’s most extreme impulses.
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“Bill Clinton famously said the era
of big government is over. Obama did the opposite, especially through his wielding of his pen and phone. In Kamala we would see the Obama template, but an even more extreme version,” Spiering said. A Harris campaign would center
on abortion rights, which would then become a central emphasis of her term in office, according to Spiering. “Kamala would spend her first
four years going hard on the abortion issue and just hammering Republi- cans again and again on it. “Her administration would frame
it as the evil Republicans trying to slow her down, while she stood tall in defending the rights of women. “She sees it as a winning issue,”
he added. On economic issues, citizens also
shouldn’t expect Harris to seek con- sensus or middle ground, according to Spiering. Harris’ rhetoric often falls
to the far left of the majority of the American electorate, bordering on socialism. Critics point to a Nov. 1, 2020 cam-
paign advertisement released on social media in which Harris expressed the view that a fair economy facilitated an equality of opportunity — and also results. The Harris-narrated ad explained,
“There’s a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, oh, everyone should get the same amount. The problem with that — not everybody’s starting out at the same place. “It’s about giving people the
resources and the support they need, so that everyone can be on equal foot- ing and then compete on equal foot- ing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.” However, foreign policy would be
where Harris would face her most arduous task. She would have to con-
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