July 26, 2024
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Kamala Harris Unburdened by Past as Media Scrambles to Rewrite Her Story
By Rick Manning
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore… A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subject to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”—Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906-1975)
Americans have been subjected to one of the most blatant and obvious brainwashing campaigns in modern history. Utilizing the power of those social media platforms and mass media outlets, the American left is engaged in a true battle for the soul of America. It is a battle that is being fought by destroying the concept of absolute truth and replacing it with situational facts that can be changed to meet the immediate need.
The most obvious current example is the rehabilitation of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris is being rediscovered by the left-wing establishment media as they attempt to burnish a politician who has never won a presidential delegate to the Democrat Party Convention, and dropped out of her sole nationwide presidential campaign before a vote was cast due to her
Harris was anointed the Democrat Party nominee after President Joe Biden was pushed to the side when his declining mental capacity was revealed to the public during an unprecedented mid-June presidential debate.
The mass cover-up of Biden’s mental state by media, Washington, D.C. elites, his staff and family and members of Congress is another example, but Harris is a more profound and obvious example of someone’s history being erased and replaced in broad daylight.
Take the fact that Kamala Harris was named the leader of the Biden administration’s border security effort on March 24, 2021. The media in 2021 was filled with references to the Vice President as the “Border Czar.” This term fell into disfavor as the border became little more than a turnstile for those entering our country on false pretenses and illegally.
Harris’ failure to actually visit the border while the crisis was unfolding even drew ire from regularly friendly media outlets for a short time.
As the term became a derisive label rather than a proud distinction, it fell into disuse outside of conservative media circles.
Now, the same media which so proudly proclaimed Harris as the “Border Czar” before the total and utter failure of the Biden policies, are erasing that term as being conservative misinformation. Axios, a left-wing, news outlet had the audacity to deny the use of the description of Kamala Harris as the ‘border czar’ under the guise that she ‘never actually had’ the title.
An embarrassing claim given that the same outlet wrote in April 2021, “The number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border has reached crisis levels. Harris, appointed by Biden as border czar, (emphasis mine) said she would be looking at the "root causes" that drive migration.
A March 24, 2021 article by Stef Kight, the same reporter who now seeks to wipe the border stain from Kamala Harris’ resume is headlined in giant unambiguous bold letters, “Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis.”
Now, with more than ten million illegals released into America due to Biden-Harris policies, the establishment media is returning to its Pravda-like role after a month of engaging in some level of journalism during the take-down of Biden.
Another egregious example of this game of hide the Harris record is revealed by the removal of then Senator Kamala Harris’ rating as the most liberal U.S. Senator in 2019 by GovTrack. GovTrack, a self-described ‘government transparency website’, has removed the page ranking then Senator Harris’ record as even more liberal than Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Independent-Socialist Bernie Sanders (Vt.).
Expect other Harris failings to be similarly worm-holed as the Vice President’s career gets reimagined and repackaged to the American public in the months ahead.
This remaking of Vice President Kamala Harris may explain her previously indecipherable favorite word salad when she says some iteration of “I can imagine what can be, unburdened by what has been.”
After all, truth is fungible to those who embrace the Marxist concept of the end justifying the means.
And, in the modern world, where the modern day Library of Alexandria, also known as the ‘cloud’, is accessed using manipulated algorithmic librarians the past can be erased and altered to hide inconvenient facts for those who control it. In this world, reinvention is possible, unburdened by what you have done or not done and the positions you have taken in twenty plus years of politics if the right people want to make it so.
Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2024/07/kamala-harris-unburdened-by-past-as-media-scrambles-to-rewrite-her-story/
Swing Voters Hesitant on Harris, Favor Trump on the Economy, Immigration, Crime, and Foreign Policy
By Manzanita Miller
With the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic Party’s presidential pick seemingly imminent, she is enjoying a bump in favorability that may or may not be fleeting.
YouGov polling reveals Harris’ favorability rating has climbed by five points since early June, before the presidential debate debacle that escalated President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
According to a new CNN/SSRS poll released Wednesday, Harris is polling slightly ahead of where Biden was earlier this month, but still trailing former President Donald Trump by three percentage points. The poll found Trump earning 49 percent of the vote to Harris’ 46 percent, whereas Biden earned only 43 percent of the vote in the earlier survey.
Does Harris give Democrats a better shot at retaining the White House than Biden did? On one hand, Democrats can breathe a collective sigh of relief that Biden has finally stepped aside after years of alarmingly low approval ratings and concerns from across the political spectrum about his fitness for office.
On the other hand, Harris’ approval rating is still low, and public trust in her abilities remains shaky. Even coalitions of her own base remain skeptical that she can beat Trump. In addition, swing voters broadly favor Trump’s handling of key issues including inflation, immigration, crime and foreign policy.
A YouGov poll released Monday shows Americans broadly believe Harris will not beat Former President Trump in November. According to the survey, Americans say that in a head-to-head race Trump would definitely or probably beat Harris by a 32-point margin. Fifty-five percent of the public believes Trump would win in that matchup, compared to 23 percent who say Harris would win.
Very few subgroups have confidence in Harris’ ability to beat Trump, but a slightly larger share of Black Americans and Millennial and Gen X voters believe she could, compared to other groups. A third of Black voters think Harris could definitely or probably beat Trump, but slightly more (37 percent) say Harris would lose, amounting to a four-point difference in Trump’s favor. Whites say by a 41-point margin, 61 percent to 20 percent, that Trump would beat Harris. Hispanics agree Trump would beat Harris by a nine-point margin, 40 percent to 31 percent.
Harris does eight percentage points better with voters over 65 and seven percentage points better with voters aged 45-64 than she does among voters under age 30.
While Democrats hold a higher level of optimism for Harris’ prospects, 20 percent believe Trump would beat her. Democrats say by a 32-point margin – 52 percent to 20 percent – that Harris would definitely or probably beat Trump.
Independents have negligible faith in Harris’ ability to beat Trump, with just 15 percent saying they believe she will be able to do so. Independents say Trump would beat Harris by a broad 39-point margin, 54 percent to 15 percent.
Then there is the fact that on key metrics, swing voters largely trust Trump over Harris. On immigration, Trump maintains a fifteen-point lead over Harris, 45 percent to 30 percent, and broad support form swing voters. Independents trust Trump over Harris by 17 points on immigration, while voters under 30 narrowly trust Trump over Harris on immigration by two points and voters 30-44 trust Trump over Harris by eight points. Hispanics narrowly trust Trump over Harris by three points as well.
Trump enjoys a fourteen-point lead over Harris on handling inflation, and key groups of swing voters side with the former president. Trump holds a sixteen-point lead over Harris on handling inflation among independents, a seven-point lead over Harris among voters under 30, and an eleven-point lead over Harris among voters 30-44. Among Hispanics, Trump holds a nine-point lead over Harris on handling inflation.
On crime, an issue Harris has attempted to seize on as a former prosecutor, the public trusts Trump over Harris by 12 points, 41 percent to 29 percent. Swing voters, including independents and younger voters also trust Trump more. Independents trust Trump over Harris by 12 percentage points on crime, 35 percent to 23 percent. Voters under age 30 trust Trump over Harris by seven points and voters 30-44 trust Trump over Harris by six points. Hispanics trust Trump over Harris on crime by two points.
The public also trusts Trump over Harris on foreign policy by twelve points, 44 percent to 32 percent, with swing voters largely favoring Trump. Independents trust Trump over Harris by 12 points, while voters under 30 trust Trump over Harris by seven points and voters 30-44 trust Trump over Harris by two points. Hispanics trust Trump over Harris by a single percentage point.
Harris does not poll significantly better than Biden does on handling key issues, indicating that the bump in her favorability rating is more than likely tied to public relief that she does not have Biden’s cognitive and physical concerns. Biden’s physical and mental capacity aside, his administration’s handling of issues like the border cris, the war in Ukraine, and crippling inflation remain huge concerns for the American people. A candidate who is mentally and physically fit enough to handle the duties of the President is the bare minimum, and Harris has not shown she could handle major national issues better than Biden did.
Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.
To view online: https://dailytorch.com/2024/07/swing-voters-hesitant-on-harris-favor-trump-on-the-economy-immigration-crime-and-foreign-policy/
Kamala Harris Word Salad Compilation
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