The Morning Briefing: OK — It's Time to Focus on the Fact That Kamala Harris Is a Commie

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Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Cragenfŏrz felt that even the loftiest life goals should factor in time to appreciate what he felt was the modern perfection of Hamburger Helper.

Well, we got through a news cycle that managed to not blow itself out of the water, which was refreshing.

The resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle wasn't much of a surprise, especially after the bipartisan calls for her job on Monday. She will no doubt be replaced with another bureaucrat who is as monumentally incompetent as she is.

After the Sunday shakeup and the Monday adjustment, things settled back more into campaign mode.

I wrote here about the Trump-Vance campaign issuing a press release to calm supporters down about any "honeymoon" polling bump that Harris might receive, which was a smart move.

Since it was announced on Sunday that Harris would be the "anointee" — nominee doesn't really fit here — conservatives on social media have been have a field day attacking her rather prurient origin story. I admit that I briefly partook in the mockery, but that's sort of my function here. If an opportunity to be an off-color imbecile presents itself, I have a professional obligation to take advantage of it.

My good friend Stephen Green wrote an excellent column (which I highlighted in "Shot of Vodka) yesterday explaining why conservative men should avoid going down that road. He explains in great detail how that can go off the rails. This is the point that stuck with me:

It also distracts from Harris's horrible policy record going back more than 20 years ago to her political start in the Bay Area. If there's one thing the Harris-[BLANK] campaign doesn't want to talk about, it's policy — not hers, not Joe's. Three-plus years of Bidenomics and foreign policy fails need to be hung around her neck like the fetid, decaying albatross they are. All else is distraction and almost certain to backfire with a voting group that can be swayed on policy.

Bingo.

Kamala Harris's political baggage has baggage of its own. There's enough to attack and tear apart there to last three elections. If the focus is on that, she won't be a political player for much longer.

The entire Democratic Party has lurched far to the left in the 21st century. Kamala Harris is on the left fringe of her already radically progressive party. My Townhall colleague Rebecca Downs writes that Harris's voting record while in the United States Senate put her to the left of Bernie Sanders.

Over at our sister site Bearing Arms, my friend Cam Edwards covers Harris's history of trying to take away the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, going back to her days in California.

Harris's greatest areas of vulnerability, of course, are her radical left policy positions on immigration and her disastrous tenure as Joe Biden's "Border Czar." The disaster on the southern border wrought by the Biden administration remains the number one issue in this election, regardless of who the Dem candidate is. The fact that Harris was the titular head presiding over the nightmare makes the attack ads write themselves.

Donald Trump has been locked in, keeping the border front and center in the campaign. He's going to make this rough going for the new Dem candidate.

Democrats need to win over Rust Belt swing state voters. Kamala Harris may check a couple of boxes for the woke Left, but that's not much of a sales pitch for flyover country. In fact, as my friend Ed Morrissey writes at HotAir, Harris's ascendance finalizes the breakup between the Democrats and working-class Americans.

The Dems would probably prefer that Harris pick a running mate who is as centrist as possible, but there aren't a lot of them over there. Nothing can deflect from the fact that Madame Veep is a leftist's leftist. There's plenty to go after there.

Former mayors of San Francisco need not be mentioned.

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