Kamala Harris is the most left-wing candidate of the major parties for president in the United States since World War II.

Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a pleasant, calorie-free acceptance speech. She said nothing about her two substantial policy proposals to date — price controls and a $25,000 Publishers Clearinghouse-style giveaway for first-time homebuyers — and avoided a formal repudiation of her 2019 presidential campaign platform. (As Sen. Tom Cotton repeatedly pointed out to ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday, Harris hasn’t said a word about her purported repudiation of his 2019 proposal to abolish employer-provided health care and move to “Medicare for All.” An anonymous staffer told some media outlets that she no longer believes that, but she hasn’t said it herself, and what she believes about health care policy we don’t know.)

Harris has been the Democratic Party nominee for 36 days and has not given an interview or answered a single serious question. Her acceptance speech was a dance of Republican clichés (yes, the go-to Republican “opportunity society” speech) and represented a very calculated distraction from her actual record. But we do know that as a senator, she was once billed as the most liberal member of the Senate. We know that during her 2019 presidential campaign she promised to close illegal immigrant detention centers “Absolutely. Day one.”

We also know that President Biden explicitly tasked her with “curbing migration to our southern border.” President Biden also said in March 2021 that among Harris’s responsibilities at our border was persuading Central American countries and Mexico to “enhance immigration enforcement at their borders, at their borders.” At least 10 million uninvited migrants have crossed our southern border since Biden tasked Harris with policing it. So we know for a fact that Harris has spectacularly failed at her grand mission as vice president, and indeed, until Joe Biden’s inability became too obvious to hide, Democrats were convinced that an incoherent Biden was preferable to a Harris candidacy.

That’s because Harris is an absolutely awful candidate who has never won an election anywhere other than the most Democratic of California. Her interviews have always been a complete disaster. Her laugh is infamous and her quick wit, nonexistent. Maybe her candidacy will survive the Sept. 10 debate with former President Trump. Stranger things have happened. There are strategies out there that, if she can execute without a teleprompter and an adoring audience, will work. We’ll see.

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What we have already seen, however, is that the mainstream media, like Jonathan Karl and Senator Cotton (indeed, like every other mainstream anchor and journalist since Biden's abdication) are complicit in the campaign strategy of “don't see Harris, don't hear Harris, don't speak skeptically, much less badly, about Harris.”

James Carville and George Stephanopoulos famously formulated the iron law of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Whoever is running Harris’s campaign has a similar motto: “Say nothing at all, often.”

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This is great when the candidate is on the far left of the Democratic Party, is a true “San Francisco Democrat” and can't give interviews or answer questions without embarrassing himself. And especially when the traditional media is on his side and helping out at every turn. Harris has a huge advantage in the campaign: all the traditional media is on his side.

It's as if the cartel of mainstream media leaders got together and agreed: “We will highlight everything negative about Trump and erase everything positive about his presidency. We will also erase everything negative about Harris and highlight every positive we can find.”

The cartel also agreed that it would not make public that Harris is the daughter of Berkeley, California, and Montreal, Canada. Harris lived in Berkeley until she was 12 and then in Montreal and until she left for Howard University in the District of Columbia after her high school years. She left Canada for good after completing Westmount High School in Montreal and enrolling at Howard University in D.C. She reportedly spent time with her father, a Stanford economist, and family friends during summers and vacations during her middle and high school years, but Harris’s campaign has said nothing about Harris’s years in Montreal or her visits to the Bay Area. (Apparently, records, yearbooks, and classmates from Westmount High School in Montreal are much harder to locate than those belonging to Georgetown Prep, where Justice Bret Kavanaugh figured powerfully in his confirmation hearings.)

The only bit of policy that made it into Harris’ speech was a spectacular bit of “moral equivalence,” when Harris first mentioned the horrors perpetrated in Israel by Hamas and other Gaza residents, while “at the same time” highlighting the hardships Gaza suffered because of that attack and Hamas’s refusal to hand over its Israeli (and American) hostages. That peculiar and odd phrase should come as a surprise to supporters of Israel who don’t follow national security issues or figures closely. It didn’t come as a surprise to those who know the past positions of her national security adviser, Philip Gordon, or her likely White House national security adviser, Maher Bitar, if, as rumored, Gordon wants a cabinet post if Harris wins.

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The country knows everything about Trump, not just his record as president, but every detail of his life. Dozens of books have been written about the former president. We know nothing about Harris, except her record in the Senate, her presidential campaign in 2019, and her time as Joe Biden's right-hand woman at the border.

The mainstream media is fine with this, because, like Harris, the Manhattan and Beltway media elite are far left of center.

Independents and moderates in both parties should be repelled by the idea of ​​voting for a candidate who is hiding in plain sight. They should ask themselves: why?

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