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List of Harris ‘Accomplishments’ Draws Ridicule, Online Mocking

By ELECTION 2024

The official X account of the Democratic Party has posted a graphic of some of Vice President Kamala Harris’ “accomplishments,” and it is drawing a combo of mocking, resentment, and ridicule. For instance, the top ‘accomplishment’ says she “cast the most tie-breaking Senate votes by a vice president in history to lower health care costs and invest in climate action.” The next item says she “voted to confirm more women and people of color to make the judiciary look more like America.”

Other items are simply part of her duties as vice president such as when she “presided over the vote to confirm Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson” and became chair of “the National Space Council to advise the President on space policy” (Note: She was ‘space czar’ while NASA stranded a pair of astronauts at the International Space Station, where they will reportedly be stuck until sometime next year).



 

Several other items — and all of the items mentioned on the list — have nothing to do with the most pressing issues that voters say they are most concerned about this election cycle: Inflation, worsening personal finances, rampant illegal immigration, border chaos, high interest rates, and rising turmoil around the world.

CNN political data guru Harry Enten gave Harris some more bad news during a Monday morning segment, suggesting that she is likely taking her very slim lead for granted and revealing her biggest mistake so far.

When anchor John Berman asked for more detail on the recent New York Times/Sienna poll showing former President Donald Trump with a one-point lead, Enten emphasized that Harris’s initial post-convention boost has “vanished.” He noted that since the high-profile Democratic National Convention, Harris’s early surge has faded. Enten predicted that the election will hinge on Pennsylvania, where Trump currently leads. “What we’re seeing is a tightening race,” Enten said while analyzing the data.

One month ago, three separate nonpartisan polls showed the Democratic vice president leading her rival by 3 to 4%. Today, those same polls showed Harris and Trump tied. “This, to me, is part of an emerging pattern, which is in a very pivotal state – what we saw was a small Harris lead within the margin of error becoming a race that is way, way, way too close to call.” When Berman asked just how critical Pennsylvania will be to garnering 270 electoral votes, Enten pointed out that political betting markets have Harris eking out a win there. But he challenged viewers to think bigger.

“Let’s take Pennsylvania out of Kamala Harris’ column and put it in Donald Trump’s column. Again, with the betting favorites having Trump take Pennsylvania, what happens when we turn Pennsylvania red? Donald Trump wins in the Electoral College, 287 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’s 251 electoral votes,” a much larger win than for Harris if she takes the state. “So that is why I say it’s pivotal,” he added.

As the race narrows to a single state, Harris’s advisors might regret not selecting Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s popular Democratic governor, as her running mate. Insiders from the Harris campaign have acknowledged that she faced significant pressure from the anti-Israel left to avoid choosing a Jewish running mate, concerned that a Harris-Shapiro administration might be influenced heavily by Israel.

“Folks like myself thought she should have taken Josh Shapiro” who currently sits at a 59% approval rating, Enten stated. “If Kamala Harris loses in Pennsylvania, and that is the tipping state as Mr. Berman put it – the state that could put Donald Trump over the top in the Electoral College – there are going to be some real questions as to whether Kamala Harris should have chosen Josh Shapiro given how popular he is.”





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