Kamala Harris has been the presumptive Democrat nominee for president for just over one week following Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the race on July 21. In that time, the corporate media and Democrat establishment have already launched into a blatant and shameless effort to rewrite history on Harris’s past and failed record – in many cases directly contradicting their own prior reporting and statements.
Here are five Big Lies we’re already seeing being pushed on the American people when it comes to Kamala Harris.
BIG LIE #1: Kamala Harris was never Biden’s “border czar”
In March 2021, Biden tasked Harris with leading the administration’s efforts on illegal immigration, which was even then emerging as a major crisis.
Scores of outlets reported on this at the time. Axios explicitly referre
Three years later, however, Harris’s complete and utter failure to do anything about the border is an inconvenient fact for the media establishment now trying to elevate her to the White House. Their solution has been to simply claim that Harris was never put in charge of the border, and that any claims to the contrary are “Republican misinformation.”
USA Today, for instance, now rates the claim that Kamala Harris was put in charge of the border as “false,” despite the fact that three years ago the outlet reported that “Harris will lead U.S. efforts to stem migration.” Numerous other out
The corporate media have latched on to the specific term “border czar” to suggest that Republicans are being dishonest, pointing out that Biden never actually used it (even though many news outlets did). But as usual, the mainstream press is intentionally missing the forest for the trees. Biden indeed put Harris in charge of all immigration-related issues, and she fully owns that failure.
BIG LIE #2 Kamala Harris’s ascension was from the “grassroots”
Shortly after Biden dropped out of the race, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a joint press conference endorsing Harris. During his prepared remarks, Schumer incredibly claimed that Harris had been thrust into the role of presumptive nominee as part of a “process” that “has played out from the grassroots, bottom-up.”
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, and Harris has in fact become Democrats’ standard-bearer through the least democratic and least transparent process in modern American history.
The corporate media, Democrat Party leadership (including Schumer and Jeffries), and Harris herself conspired for nearly four years to mask Biden’s cognitive decline, hiding his condition from the public while working behind the scenes to prevent any legitimate primary challenge.
Multiple state Democrat parties even prevented Minnesota Democrat Congressman Dean Phillips from appearing on their primary ballots. The “grassroots” of the party was intentionally denied the chance to pick another nominee.
After 14 million Democrat primary voters had cast their ballots for Biden and it was too late to hold new contests, Biden dropped out of the race under pressure from Democrat Party bosses and billionaire donors, who then immediately threw their support behind Harris to squash any talk of a true open convention.
If Harris indeed becomes the nominee, as now appears almost inevitable, it will be through a ruthless top-down process run by wealthy and powerful elites.
Kamala Harris had her chance to win “grassroots” support in 2020, and it ended in miserable failure when she dropped out of the presidential race before the Iowa caucuses. Harris has never actually won any sizable support from even Democrat Party voters, much less the broader public – a fact that the corporate media are now hoping they can convince the American people to ignore.
BIG LIE #3: Kamala Harris is a cultural phenomenon
Perhaps the most grotesque propaganda campaign the public will be subject to over the next four months is the effort to make Kamala Harris cool.
Over the past week, Harris’s PR team has latched on to the viral “brat” trend, while Democrat Gen-Z influencers have begun referring to themselves as part of the “K-hive” and sharing pro-Harris memes. CNN’s Van Jones also declared Harris had gone from “cringe to cool in 24 hours” and that her candidacy is “not a campaign, but a movement.” The New Yorker speculated that Harris could be “a Trump-level cultural phenomenon.”
Once again, however, the narrative being pushed by the corporate media and Democrat establishment is manufactured and empty. Early polls show that Harris is performing only marginally better against Trump than Biden, a historically unpopular president with remarkably low levels of enthusiasm within his own party. Her favorability rating is just 41 percent in the latest RealClearPolitics avera
In reality, despite the left’s effort to crown her the second coming of Barack Obama, Harris is notoriously uncharismatic, awkward, and gaffe prone. Her public remarks often devolve into meaningless word salads, and she doesn’t even appear particularly likable to those who know her – nearly 92 percent of her initial staffers have since departed her office.
Moreover, the mainstream media even acknowledged these facts before she became the presumptive nominee. As recently as April, a CNN panel was openly speculating that Harris may be dragging Biden down in his re-election bid. In March, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker called on Harris to “step aside” for “the good of the country,” citing the fact that she had “become a burden to the Democratic ticket.”
Now, however, we are all supposed to believe that Harris will swoop in at the last minute and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat through the sheer force of her personality and political genius.
BIG LIE #4 Kamala Harris is a “tough prosecutor”
During the 2020 Democrat presidential primary, at the height of the “Defund the Police” movement, Harris’s record as San Francisco’s district attorney and later the Attorney General of California became a major liability, and she described herself as a “progressive prosecutor” in an attempt to save face.
Now, however, as American cities have devolved into chaos and Democrats have sought to paint Trump has a “convicted felon,” Harris has rebranded as a “pragmatic prosecutor” who can finally be the one to “get Trump.” The Atlantic has declared the 2024 race to be “the prosecutor vs. the felon.”
But Harris’s record shows that her initial characterization of her prosecutorial style was far more accurate.
Most infamously, in 2020 Harris helped raise donations for a bail fund that sprung criminals from jail – many of whom went on to commit other violent crimes, including at least one man who later murdered someone. She backed Defund the Police, called for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, and told rioters to “take to the streets.”
While she was DA of San Francisco, Harris also refused to seek the death penalty for a gang member who murdered a cop, allowedillegal aliens to receive taxpayer-funded job training, and supported California Prop 47, which reduced theft of property valued at under $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor and reduced punishments for drug offenses, among other disastrous changes to California’s criminal code.
The media and Democrat establishment will now try to sell Harris as a compassionate yet tough law enforcement official who can fix the country’s crime problem. Her actual record says precisely the opposite.
BIG LIE #5: Kamala Harris is a moderate
There are no shortage of radical positions Kamala Harris has supported during her political career – from banning fracking to abolishing ICE, eliminating
But an equally important story to watch is the ongoing media effort to memoryhole Harris’s radicalism and recast her as a center-life pragmatic moderate.
One of the most glaring examples of this that we have seen already is from the supposedly nonpartisan government transparency site “GovTrack.” In 2019, the site published a ranking showing Harris as the most liberal member of the United States Senate based on her votes and public stances on a range of issues.
But as soon as that ranking began making the rounds on social media, GovTrack removed the page entirely, claiming five years after the fact that their data was “not sufficient to create a reliable portrait of the activity of legislators.”
Clearly, the Democrat machine recognizes that a politician to the left of Bernie Sanders has no chance of winning a general election, and so the cover-up is on to hide Harris’s radical record.
In the coming months there are sure to be plenty more lies and hoaxes to boost Harris over the top this fall. But if early polls are any indication, Americans may already be wise to the charade.
A version of this column appeared at AMAC.us.
Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
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