Jay Weber Show transcript 8-13-24
We talked yesterday about how- nearly a month into her coronation... ‘nominee’ Kamala Harris still doesn’t have ‘a policy agenda’. According to her campaign, she has no stance. On any stated issue. Nothing. And we are supposed to believe this woman is a blank slate-
Or as if there is some sort of mystery related to what she believes- when really-we have two decades of her being un public office- including a stint as an attorney general, two senate campaigns, 8 years in the senate, a failed run for president, and nearly 4 years as Veep to look at.
There is no mystery related to where Kamala Harris stands on the issues- and how she’d govern.
Based on her long-standing positions on these issues-Kamala Harris would want to take the country even further left than Joe Biden has. She’s been walking in lockstep with Bernie sanders and AOC during her dc career.
What’s the mystery?
As Dan McLaughlin asks on Twitter:
The dems and their accomplices in the media are asking us to ignore all the long-standing positions Kamala Harris has had on these things- so they can completely ‘invent a new reality’ for her presidential campaign.
Folks, we all know what her far left policies are-and they have been the same for decades.
Her agenda is roughly the same as Biden’s -and if there is any difference-Kami’s is even further left.
For example- before she was his Veep- Harris was in favor of full-blown govt run health care. Even Biden didn’t run on that.
Kamala Harris has said repeatedly that she favors banning fracking, she supports AOC’s massively idiotic ‘green new deal’.
As AG, Senator, and VP, Kamala Harris has decriminalizing illegals. As AG, she supported defunding the police and as a Senator, she supported rioting across the country as ‘protest’.
As AG, she supported ‘decriminalizing’ shoplifting in California, which has led to the massive shoplifting and smash-and-grab problems across the country.
She’s in favor of gun confiscation and has been her entire career. As AG, Senator, and Veep. Gun confiscation...which she labeled ‘mandatory gun buybacks’...where-in the u-s govt would confiscate your guns but give you a few bucks for them so it didn’t look so much like stealing private property and disarming the citizenry.
We know what Kamala Harris stands for.
But the fake news media have got to play this game -where-in- until she mouths an agenda or posts one on her campaign website- they need to pretend that we all don’t really know what a Kamala Harris presidency will look like.
JD Vance was on CNN this weekend-and time and again- knocked down the false premises and intentional distractions that have driven the news coverage since Biden was tossed overboard and Kammy was coronated.
He made this point about Harris’ fraudulent candidacy, after dana bash asked him an idiotic question based on Harris’ racial background.
Vance is-dead on- accurate with that answer.
Kamala Harris has run-several campaigns now- pretending to be whatever she thought voters wanted her to be-
And that includes changing her positions based on the crowd she’s talking to currently, she’s saying ‘one thing’ to Jewish groups and ‘something else’ to Arab groups.
Currently-she’s talking tough on the border in campaign speeches and ads...and is then meeting with the pro-illegal and ‘open borders’ groups and saying, ‘don’t worry. I don’t really mean it. I just got to win the election.’
This is a technique that has been routinely deployed in the Obama races, the Biden race, and now the Harris race: lets openly lie to the public and then quietly reassure our special interest groups that ‘that’ is what we are doing.
Look- do you want open borders?
Well, 70 percent of Americans don’t, and so you got to shut up and let us pretend we want to close them.
This is literally what the Obama, Anita Dunn, David Plouffe crowd has been doing for nearly 20 years now. And they assume it will work for Kammy.
Even the angry special interest groups get recruited into the larger scheme to gaslight the American public.
She has had consistently radical, extreme far left positions for her entire career...and she only deviates from them in order to win elections.
The one time she didn’t- she didn’t do so because she thought they were what the voters wanted to hear.
What’s the -one time- Kamala Harris didn’t pretend she wasn’t a socialist progressive radical-during a campaign?
The 2020 presidential primary. Right?
In ‘that instance’ she openly ran on her radical agenda and voting record-and she was the first democrat out of 25 or so candidates to quit the race.
Lesson learned: she can’t be honest in 2024, can she?
And so- what we get is this highly dishonest attempt to ‘keep America guessing’ on what her policy platform will be.
Folks, they will release ‘something’ next week.
They’ll release ‘something’ that the Obama and Harris cabal of party strategists thinks ‘sounds good’ to the American people. Sounds moderate. Sounds reasonable.
But it won’t be Kamala Harris’ real agenda. This group of radical leftists has been gaslighting the American people ever since 2008, when Obama ran the first time. Run as moderates-and even sound conservative on most things- and then rule as radicals.
It's not like we don’t know what’s coming.
And hey- Labor Day is also ‘coming’.
We aren’t far away from the date on the calendar that really tends to signify ‘crunch time’ for these candidates.
It’s the time when even most casual voters start to pay closer attention to a presidential race.
And this year-
The results of the race appear to hinge on such a small pool of undecided voters- that both campaigns have already started to try to win them over.
I ended the show yesterday with a Wall St Journal poll that puts the group of voters who really have ‘no strong sense’ of how they will vote yet, at fifteen percent.
But the number isn’t even that high.
The poll shows that-among those who claim to still be persuadable- only a tiny sliver of that fifteen percent live in the six swing states that are bound to decide this election.
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audio version of the segment here> As AG, Senator, and VP, Kamala Harris has always been an extreme leftist