Kamala Harris has been trying to run a safe campaign. She's avoided interviews and press conferences where she'd be expected to speak off the cuff. She's also largely steered clear of putting forth a platform to inform the voters of her vision for the country. This may prove to be a critical mistake, and the Trump campaign is doing everything it can to capitalize on that error.
It's crucial for presidential candidates to define themselves to voters because it shapes the public's perception and sets the narrative for their campaign. By clearly articulating their values, policies, and vision, candidates can build a strong, consistent identity that can (hopefully) resonate with voters and differentiate them from their opponents.
When Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, she needed to define herself for a lot of reasons, perhaps most importantly to distinguish herself from Joe Biden. However, she failed to do that. After nearly a month as the presumptive nominee, her campaign website still lacks a platform or policy page.
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And that's all by design. For sure, she's offered a small taste of her economic policy, but that backfired drastically. Her Soviet-style price controls plan was widely panned—even from the left—and she's likely to continue avoiding major policy proposals and run on vibes going forward. This was always a risky strategy because when candidates fails to define themselves it gives their opponents the opportunity to define them.
And that's exactly what Donald Trump is doing. In an epic troll move, the Trump campaign has put out a website detailing Kamala's radical agenda: Kamala2024Policies.com.
"Kamala Harris has yet to tell voters what her policies are, so we thought we’d help them out. Kamala Harris wants to open the borders, raise taxes, and free criminals," a Trump campaign national press secretary told Fox News Digital.
"Border Czar Kamala Harris opened the southern border to illegal alien criminals and deadly fentanyl, and as vice president, was the tie-breaking vote for far-left spending bills that raised taxes and sent prices skyrocketing for families across the country," the website reads. "While Harris has tried to rewrite history on her extreme record, she can’t hide from her promises to set murderers free, dismantle America’s border security, raise costs with massive spending bills, bring back the Green New Deal Scam, eliminate private health insurance, and more."
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"Historically, presidential candidates have had campaign policy pages readily available for voters," notes Fox News Digital. "When President Biden was on the campaign trail in 2020, a group of advisers crafted a 110-page policy document, according to The New York Times, which also reported Harris' lack of a campaign platform on her site. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016 had a page with 200 distinct policy proposals on record."
