In her appearance on “The View ” this week, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked if she would have done anything differently than President Joe Biden over the past four years. She answered, very, “There is certainly a thing that comes to mind. ”
Observers were fast to note how tragic an truth it was given Harris ’ previous attempts to separate herself from Biden, whose tenure in office is commonly seen as a failure. The issue for Harris of training is that she’s the current vice president, which means she’s never the contender but the de facto former. Distinguishing herself from Biden was constantly going to be difficult. What’s more, the Biden White House has gone out of its way to emphasize how important Harris has been to the presidency. Biden himself said last month, she has been “a key player in all we’ve done. ”
Previous attempts by Harris to distance herself from Biden, like choosing “A New Way Forward ” as her campaign slogan, or talking about what she’ll do on “day one in office, ” have come off as fake and half-hearted. They have even lacked trust. As past President Donald Trump noted in the conversation last month, she’s been in office nearly four years. Why has n’t she done any of the things she says she’ll do if she wins the presidency?
But Harris ’ answer on “The View ” also did something else, which might be even worse for her electoral prospects than endorsing all of Biden’s decisions. She mistakenly exposed the unpleasant truth at the heart of her plan, which Harris and the business advertising desperately don’t like to talk about.
And the truth is this: she’s merely running for president because it became impossible to hide Biden’s mental drop.
Harris is n’t running because she has a vision for the state. She’s not running because she thinks it ’s time to “change direction ” or because she has a “new way forward. ” She does n’t even have any big plans activities.
She’s running because she’s never Joe Biden. That’s it. The whole idea of her strategy comes down to this: Biden was unfit to run so someone else had to, and there was no realistic way to pass over the evil president, so she gets to be the candidate.
That point has been hanging over the Harris plan like a dagger of Wedge since Biden dropped his re-election charge in July. Any clear question about the differences between Harris and Biden, if it was n’t handled skillfully, had the ability to open up the larger problem about Biden’s drop and Harris ’ involvement in hiding it.
Recall that in the runup to the Trump-Biden discussion, the corporate press treated any concerns about Biden’s mental clarity or health for business as a disturbed crime idea. Thus did Harris. In the aftermath of the February report by special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents and wrote that the president ’s memory was “hazy ” and had “significant limitations, ” Harris aggressively defended the president. She called the Hur record “gratuitous, false and unacceptable. ”
Even after the June conversation, which displayed Biden’s mental decline to the entire world, Harris maintained this place. The very day of the controversy Harris went on CNN to support Biden, praising his management of the president despite a “slow start ” in the conversation and then claiming, absurdly, that Biden is so strong that world leaders seek out his guidance at major global summits.
She did the same thing this past weekend. Asked by Axios if Biden has the strength and clarity of mind to control the domestic and international problems in front of him, and whether Harris was “fully guarantee ” voters that there’s no reason to be concerned about the president, the Harris plan responded, “Of program. ”
But of course there’s plenty of reason to be concerned, otherwise Harris would n’t be running for president at all. She was only picked to replace Biden when it became impossible to hide Biden’s cognitive decline.
This of course raises questions about who is really running the Biden White House. Because it is n’t Biden. For years now it ’s been obvious that Biden is n’t up to the job and in fact is n’t really doing the job. Maybe the reason “not a thing comes to mind ” when Harris is asked if she would do anything different than Biden is because Biden is an empty figurehead who is n’t the one running things.
If that ’s the case, who is running things? Harris? Probably not, given her lack of ability to think clearly and articulate much of anything.
Harris ’ answer on “The View ” unintentionally highlighted the corrupt nature of both the Biden presidency and the Harris campaign. Biden was n’t really governing, and Harris is n’t really running on anything. The one thing she does have to run on is the one thing she can’t say: The president is cognitively compromised, and she’s not. Or at least, not as much as Biden is.