Kamala Harris has been the talk of the political town since the first round of Democratic debates on June 26 and 27. She started with relatively low polling numbers, but now she stands in fourth place at 14.3 percent. Harris trails behind Joe Biden (27.3 percent), Elizabeth Warren (16.3 percent), and Bernie Sanders (14.8 percent).
While the speculation on the final Democratic nominee is indecisive, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight believes Harris will soon be a close contender with Biden. The most recent poll has Harris trailing Sanders by only 0.5 percent.
Despite what some may call success during the first round of Democratic debates, she has now succumbed to the inevitable backlash of growing popularity. While few in the Democratic field have called Harris out for her cynical political career and questionable law career, Harris has spent her time digging into Biden’s voting records from the 1980s.
Yet we’re seeing little information dredged up about Harris’ previous decisions. Why? Because most reporters share her political beliefs. Three instances are critical to examine when trying to decide if Harris is as “tough, principled, and fearless” as she claims to be. The first is the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, the second her office’s prosecution of pro-life activist David Daleiden, and the third over-incarceration in California when she was attorney general.
The Brett Kavanaugh Hearings
In Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino’s new book, “Justice on Trial,” the authors mention Harris’s cynical role in the Kavanaugh hearings. During the first round of hearings, Harris had a grand moment by asking Kavanaugh if he had talked to anyone about the Robert Mueller probe. Kavanaugh responded, yes, he had spoken to fellow judges on the subject.
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11.29.2024