The Harris campaign’s ‘out of time’ ploy

The Harris-Walz campaign is depending on Americans feeling so rushed this election that they don’t pay attention to the vice president’s dramatic evolution.

Last week, CNN’s Kasie Hunt interviewed Harris-Walz campaign senior spokesperson Ian Sams and discussed polling that shows Democrats are losing working-class voters.

“What is it about what you guys have been doing for the last three-plus years that explains that?” Hunt asked.

Sams’s attempt at a non-answer was actually quite revealing. “We’ve got sixty days until the election,” he replied, exasperated. “You know, we don’t have time to sit around and think about why, over the last few years, certain things may have happened or may not have happened.”

Let that sentence sink in: we don’t have time to sit around and think about why, over the last few years, certain things may have happened or may not have happened.

I only wish Kasie Hunt had drilled down on what “certain things” Sams was referring to, but again, that would take time — and we don’t have it!

Amazingly enough, Kamala’s campaign did finally find the time, seven weeks after entering the race, late Sunday night to unroll her policy positions on her website. Kamala’s current stances, which include securing the border, instituting a national ban on price fixing and lowering costs for families, are outlined in “A New Way Forward.”

If you point out that many of Harris’s policies are antithetical to what she has done over the last three plus years as vice president, not to mention what she campaigned on in 2019, you are simply looking backward.

It is a bold strategy, I’ll give them that.

And while Sams and the rest of the Democratic Party are reluctant to talk about the vice president’s record, they also feel strongly that she deserves a promotion.

Imagine an employee trying out that maneuver on the CEO? “Don’t worry about my performance, just give me the promotion because life is short and time is ticking!”

You’d never know based off Mamala’s campaign schedule that time is of the essence. She has plenty of time to talk about white-guy tacos with Tim Walz and to film choreographed endorsement videos with the Obamas.

Kamala Harris’s team doesn’t defend her record, not because they are short on time, but because Harris is short on accomplishments.

The border czar can’t point to the overrun southern border as an example of her leadership skills. The woman who cast the tie-breaking vote in both the Inflation Reduction Act and the American Rescue Plan can’t lecture Americans on inflation or the economy. The “last person in the Situation Room” with Joe Biden before the Afghanistan withdrawal can’t tout her razor sharp instincts on foreign policy matters.

The vice president, whether she likes it or not, is now the face of the last four years. So she is doing her best to hide that inconvenient truth until November 5.

Her campaign staff aren’t the only ones having trouble defending these sudden policy recalibrations.

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders discussed the New Kamala over the weekend on NBC. Kristen Welker asked the leftist veteran if he was worried that Harris is abandoning her progressive values.

“No, I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals,” he replied. “I think she’s trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election.”

Bernie is right on target. After all, if Kamala Harris wins the election, there will be plenty of time for Madam President to revert back to her old self.