Vice President Kamala Harris’s strategy of avoiding mainstream media was doomed to fail. For too long, we've been getting a high schooler's campaign, complete with promises of less homework and longer lunch periods and offerings of cupcakes when anyone dares question her. And now it's clear the media won't tolerate it anymore.
The campaign didn't want to get into the nitty-gritty of policy, but was ultimately forced to do something. First, she copied a Trump campaign proposal. And then another. And then, the rollout of her economic policy was so bad, it's been getting trashed in liberal media outlets, and by Obama people.
This week, even CNN's Jim Acosta mocked the campaign for avoiding interviews and press conferences.
Kamala could only run a superficial campaign for so long, and now even the Washington Post editorial board is calling her out, and utterly blasting her campaign.
"Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech Friday was an opportunity to get specific with voters about how a Harris presidency would manage an economy that many feel is not working well for them," the editorial board wrote. "Unfortunately, instead of delivering a substantial plan, she squandered the moment on populist gimmicks."
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And it gets worse from there. After pointing out that Americans "are clearly still anxious and angry about the high cost of groceries," housing, and even Big Macs, that Harris isn't leveling with the voters about the causes of inflation, and is instead trying to blame big business with her proposed "price gouging" ban.
Her ideas would cost money, yet she insisted in her speech that she would hold to President Joe Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on any household earning $400,000 or less annually. That excludes 80 percent of taxable income, and does not take into account the recent surge in families earning over $400,000. The Harris campaign says it plans to raise revenue to cover these costs but did not provide specific offsets in its economic plan rollout. Without them, Ms. Harris’s full plan would add $1.7 trillion to federal deficits over a decade, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan budget watchdog.
And they didn't just blast her Soviet-style price controls either. They also blasted her housing plan, which includes $25,000 in down payment assistance for first-time home buyers, which, they acknowledge, "risks putting upward pressure on prices."
The only policy the editorial board seemed to think was decent was increasing the Child Tax Credit.
"Ms. Harris is on firmest ground when she advocates increasing the child tax credit from the current level of $2,000 per kid up to $3,600 per kid for middle-class and low-income families, and for making it easier for those lower on the income scale to access the benefit," the wrote. The Harris-Walz campaign ought to thank J.D. Vance for giving them the idea, and giving them a short reprieve in this scathing editorial.
When the Washington Post editorial board is trashing Kamala Harris for gimmicky and terrible policies, it's safe to say her honeymoon with the press is over, and that her skills as a campaigner haven't improved since she first ran for president back in 2019. It's a brutal reality check for the campaign that has been given a free pass for far too long.
