After months of campaigning characterized by a lack of policy substance and energy, Kamala Harris’ “non-campaign” has continued its running-on-fumes push to the White House. In a recent run of disastrous interviews and town-halls, Harris has failed to make a dent, struggling to articulate even basic policy commitments in the face of her record.
One wonders how an inarticulate and inept public speaker made her way as a prosecutor, presumably arguing cases before judge and jury.
But, it turns out, there’s mounting evidence her non-campaign is simply a continuation of her career as a prosecutor — during which she may have prosecuted only a handful of cases.
National Review found Harris greatly exaggerated her career, claiming she had prosecuted hundreds of cases as a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County when she sought San Francisco’s DA role.
She revised that figure downward to 50, but her boss in Alameda County said she had only tried one case in a year and a half.
Whatever the figure of criminal cases, there’s no clear indication that Harris ever prosecuted a civil case when she worked for the San Francisco City Attorney’s office.
There are around 2,500 state and local prosecutors’ offices across the country, in addition to approximately 5,000 federal prosecutors. Assuming thousands of prosecutors across the country, successfully arguing cases, what explains Harris’ meteoric rise from among them, eventually to seek the brass ring of the nation’s highest office?
In any case, Harris’ disastrous interviews with CBS, CNN, and Fox’s Bret Baier, and turning down a Joe Rogan interview, are cold comfort to Democrats and independents seeking substance.
But with former President Trump’s impressive coalition of Republicans, ex-Democrats, and Independents rallying around him, his dominance in the polls is little surprise.
A Wall Street Journal poll this week shows Trump on track to win the popular vote as well as the Electoral College. A Forbes/Harris-X result agrees.
It could be that moderate Democrats and Independents have awakened to the Democratic leadership’s low view of the American public. In the wake of Harris’ inarticulate fumbling with the press after a month of silence following her coronation to the DNC nomination, Democrat elites’ assumption that Americans must settle for a candidate as weak as Harris is in plain sight.
