Now that Vice President Kamala Harris is heir apparent for the Democratic presidential nomination, the next step we’ll see from the left is whipping out the women’s card.
We’ve seen this in many other races, including with former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Anytime a female candidate on the left is criticized, progressives complain of a “war on women” and “sexism.” This form of deflection is sexist in its own way — coddling a candidate by claiming she’s not strong enough for democratic scrutiny.
To be sure, we have too many personal attacks generally in our feverish, hyperpolarized political climate. But the truth is: Americans don’t care that Harris is a woman, nor should they. If she loses, it will be based on the substance of her terrible policies, her inarticulate communication and her unimpressive record.
It’s also impossible to claim that Harris is a victim of more venomous personal attacks than her opponent, former President Donald Trump, who literally took a sniper’s bullet during a political rally.
President Joe Biden dropped out, but his dismal policy record with Harris remains. A Real Clear Politics poll suggests 68% of Americans think the United States is on the wrong track. Harris now owns that, especially since she helped orchestrate the effort to deceive the American public into believing that Biden’s cognitive abilities were fine.
Harris will lose because typical Americans have effectively lost thousands of dollars in wages due to the ravages of inflation wrought in part by massive government stimulus spending championed by this administration.
Harris also owns the terrible results along our southern border — her most visible portfolio assignment from Biden. What’s shocking is that Harris has not spoken with Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens since he was appointed in July 2023, according to Fox News.
Harris utterly failed on immigration, and now the highest number of people since 2001 told Gallup that illegal immigration is “a critical threat to the U.S.,” and we need stronger immigration controls.
In a Daily Beast column titled “America is ready for a Black female president — but not Kamala Harris,” Keli Goff rightly cites “data showing she underperforms compared to Biden among women and non-Black minorities .”
Goff also cites Harris’ abysmal record of staff turnover, with Harris’ office blistering through a turnover rate of 92% during the last 3 ½ years, according to a watchdog report by Open the Books. Goff also notes Harris struggled with high staff turnover during her previous offices and contrasts this with former President Barack Obama, whose disciplined campaign earned him the nickname “no drama Obama.”
Harris will lose in November because she couldn’t persuade her party to back her during her bid for the White House in 2020. Harris struggled to gain traction during the primary and dropped out of the race before a single ballot was cast, contrasting with another female candidate of color, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who lasted longer and actually garnered delegates.
Gabbard excoriated Harris during a presidential debate about Harris’ record as a prosecutor, saying Harris “put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”
Harris will also lose because she favors a panoply of terrible policies, including job-killing business tax hikes, destroying private health insurance, banning fracking and slapping a carbon tax on the backs of American families.
It won’t be Harris’ sex that voters reject in November. It will be her destructive ideology and policies.