After weeks of speculation, Joe Biden finally announced that Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) would be his running mate.
I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 11, 2020
As an individual, Joe Biden’s apparent weakness is actually somewhat of a strength when compared to the Left’s perception of Donald Trump. With the election being presented as a choice between Trump and “not Trump,” the fact that Joe Biden is a lying hypocrite or is experiencing obvious mental decline becomes unfortunately irrelevant. The fact that he described himself as a “transition candidate” has shifted the focus to the identity of his running mate; this is further tightened given the likelihood that Joe Biden will not remain in office until 2024. With this in mind, the election is no longer between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, but between Donald Trump and Biden’s vice presidential pick. Through this lens, Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris should signal the death of Biden’s campaign.
The first reason for this is that Harris failed to compete with the man she now seeks to replace. Despite the assumption that she would be a formidable candidate, Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign was dead on arrival. Harris demonstrated a consistent level of undeserved arrogance, stating that “I’m obviously a top-tier candidate,” despite proving herself to be “an uneven campaigner” who “changed her message and tactics to little effect and had a staff torn into factions.” Even at the height of her lackluster campaign, she peaked at 15% voter support. Such a demonstrably unpopular candidate, rejected passionately by her own party, could hardly bolster Biden’s chances.
Secondly, Kamala Harris is fundamentally unlikeable. While the Left will rely on preemptively rejecting any criticism of Harris as racist and/or sexist, the unavoidable reality is that likeability is crucially important when it comes to battles of personality. With Kamala Harris using Joe Biden as a confused Trojan Horse, it doesn’t help that she doesn’t possess the same social abilities as her running mate. Her multiple attempts to gain “street cred” by saying that she loves Cardi B (a Bernie Sanders supporter), or that she smoked marijuana while listening to Snoop Dogg albums, which were yet to be released, elicit the same shuddering cringe-fits brought to us by her fellow panderers Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. Put bluntly, Biden is liked. Harris is not.
Finally, and most importantly, while the fake Kamala Harris is laughably awkward, the notion of the real Kamala Harris becoming President should terrify us all. Her policies are dangerously radical, and The New York Times will engage in obscene levels of shameless gaslighting by presenting Harris as a “pragmatic moderate” to try and convince you otherwise. Her views include sporadic calls to dismantle private health insurance, the restriction of religious freedoms, and calling for the use of monarchical executive powers to ban “assault weapons.” When Joe Biden pointed out the pesky roadblock to Harris’ fascistic demands – the United States Constitution – Kamala Harris’ response was to cackle “Let’s say ‘Yes we can.’”
Not only does she pose a real threat to fundamental American principles, her own history should disqualify her from holding any positions of further power. Tulsi Gabbard famously tore her performance as a District Attorney and Attorney General to pieces with lethal precision, and Harris’ professional past is littered with behaviors which would surely be rejected by the Democrat’s anti-law enforcement base if they possessed even a shred of intellectual honesty.
What makes the selection of Kamala Harris uniquely moronic is not her recent failure, her radicalism, or her personality. After all, the Democratic platform is dripping with such characters. No, what makes Kamala Harris an abysmal pick is her self-destructive hypocrisy. During the last round of the Democratic Party debates, Harris mounted her last stand upon a platform of “racial justice” by confronting Biden regarding his work with segregationists, stating that he opposed busing, and implying that he was therefore racist.
This wasn’t the first time Kamala Harris tried to throw Biden under the campaign bus they will now – presumably – share. When Biden faced accusations of sexual assault or inappropriate touching, Harris attempted to capitalize on the opportunity. “I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it,” she said. Of course, those who remember Harris’ narcissistic use of the Kavanaugh hearings to launch her presidential bid will know that spurious accusations of sexual assault are hardly unusual.
However, this was when Kamala Harris was competing with Joe Biden. Once Harris’ campaign imploded, she immediately endorsed her enemy.
.@JoeBiden has served our country with dignity and we need him now more than ever. I will do everything in my power to help elect him the next President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/DbB2fGWpaa
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) March 8, 2020
She drew from the same verbiage of sudden respect and moral paternalism when celebrating her nomination as Biden’s running mate.
.@JoeBiden can unify the American people because he’s spent his life fighting for us. And as president, he’ll build an America that lives up to our ideals.
I’m honored to join him as our party’s nominee for Vice President, and do what it takes to make him our Commander-in-Chief.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 11, 2020
Kamala Harris prides herself on being a ruthless prosecutor, delivering watertight arguments to destroy her opponents. So let’s ask the obvious question: is Biden a racist misogynist or not? If yes, then why is Kamala Harris – who has a propensity for reminding us that she is a black woman on the campaign trail – endorsing a racist misogynist? If not, then why did she lie?
The reason is obvious. Kamala Harris is a morally vapid and power hungry individual who has no regard for the truth. All that stands between her and the White House is Donald Trump and a mentally unstable cyclist who she occasionally believes to be a racist rapist.
She must not win.