Ben Yount on the Jay Weber Show transcript `7-26-24
We know that Kamala Harris is bad for the country with her policies.
She is pro-open border, pro-criminal, pro-abortion, pro-big spending.
The Democrat’s hard-left love all of those things.
But the hard-Left won’t decide this election. Moderate voters will.
Is Kamala good on their issues?
Not really.
From a Washington Examiner piece:
When Joe Biden couldn’t hide, he also could not run. Harris has the same problem and she now owns the administration record and her own extreme left-wing voting record, which is just as bad. To whatever extent they know Harris, voters do not like her.
She embraced the Green New Deal and opposed all energy fracking and offshore drilling, coupling this job-killing, America-weakening proposal to an insouciant suggestion that Pennsylvania’s swing-state voters simply transition to other lines of work. She supported the George Floyd riots and said they should not stop even though they were inflicting billions of dollars of damage and trashing the rule of law.
Most egregiously, perhaps, was her failure to do anything to stop the flow of millions of illegal immigrants into America. Lickspittle lefty news media such as CNN and Axios are trying to muddy or erase the record by quibbling over whether Harris was the “border czar.” But it was understood and reported three years ago that she and the administration wished it to be known she was taking command in the migrant crisis. Only now, when it is inconvenient in a presidential campaign to have her tagged with such a colossal policy wreck on a top voter issue, are the Democratic establishment and its media acolytes “correcting” the record.
Poll after poll shows that the border is the second most important issue to voters.
The economy is number one, and the border is number two.
Even among Democratic voters.
Remember these black and brown voters from Chicago back in April?
Immigration is now an ‘every town’ issue.
There was a double murder in Colby, Wisconsin where an illegal immigrant from Mexico killed two children, then stabbed his wife.
There are stories daily about rapes robberies, and assaults from illegal immigrants.
Moderate suburban women may say that ‘everyone is welcome,’ and ‘no one is illegal,’ but they are scared their daughters are the next to get grabbed and assaulted.
But what about the economy?
The New York Times looked at that.
After some polishing-of-the-turd that is Bidenomics, the paper tried to find hope for Kamala:
Can she maintain Mr. Biden’s connection to certain blue-collar voters in pivotal states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, while re-engaging economically disaffected young voters who had grown disillusioned with the president?
And can she overcome voter anger over inflation, which peaked at 9 percent in 2022 but has since fallen closer to the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2 percent?
Some analysts were quick to predict that Ms. Harris would struggle to break free of voters’ unflattering economic views of the administration. “She’d pick up all of Biden’s economic negatives,” Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist who opposes Mr. Trump, wrote on the social media platform X on Sunday.
Polls have made those vulnerabilities repeatedly clear, including one this month by The Economist/YouGov showing that voters disapprove of Mr. Biden’s handling of jobs and the economy, 51 percent to 39 percent. They disapproved of his handling of inflation by an even wider margin.
Gas is more expensive. Groceries are more expensive. More people are living paycheck-to-paycheck now than four years ago.
Kamal may talk about being ‘unburdened by what was,’ but 71% of people in Wisconsin say their incomes have not kept up with the p[ace of inflation. That is going to be a problem that Kamala cannot simply ‘momala’ away.
The Marquette Law School Poll from May said Kamala Harris is the least popular candidate in the state.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both unpopular, but Harris is even more so.
Her bump in the polls is because of the new coach phenomenon. Fans think the team that lost the first four games of the season will somehow magically get better with a new coach. And any success is magnified. But in the end, a bad team is a bad team.
And Kamala Harris is bad on the issues.
She’s even on the wrong side for some of the hard-Left who she’s courting.
From another Washington Examiner piece:
Delegates bound to the uncommitted votes in Michigan and Minnesota appear to be willing to hear Vice President Kamala Harris, the de facto Democratic presidential nominee, out — if she distances herself from Biden’s foreign policy stance on Israel.
Minnesota and Michigan’s uncommitted delegates have not pledged to support Harris until they see if her stance on Israel and the war in Gaza differs from that of President Joe Biden. Abbas Alawie, one of the two “no” votes from Michigan, told Axios the national uncommitted movement is trying to schedule a meeting with the vice president to discuss her gaining their support.
“Our uncommitted national movement will do everything in our power to mobilize the 730,000 people who voted uncommitted to vote for Vice President Harris,” he told Axios.
There were about 40,000 uninstructed voters here in Wisconsin back in the primary. More than enough to tip Wisconsin to Donald Trump.
Kammy is not Joe, and that’s good for Democrats.
But Kammy is still Kammy, and almost all of the Democrats problems with the Biden Harris ticket didn’t just magically go away with the end of Biden’s campaign.
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story credit: Washington Examiner and New York Times
audio version of the segment here > Is Kamala good on the moderate issues? Not really