In the ever-evolving landscape of American politics, Kamala Harris has emerged as a figure of significant contention. As we approach the next election cycle, it’s crucial to evaluate her record and proposals with a critical eye, especially considering the implications for the future of the United States. Here’s why, based on recent analyses and public sentiment, voting for Kamala Harris might not be in the best interest of the nation:
Economic Policies: Harris’s advocacy for socialist economic policies, including price controls, raises alarms. Her proposal for a federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries, during a time when grocery stores were operating on razor-thin profit margins, demonstrates a disconnect from economic realities. This approach could stifle business growth, potentially leading to higher prices or reduced availability of goods, directly affecting the middle class.
Immigration and Foreign Policy: Her handling of immigration, particularly her message to Guatemalans not to come to the U.S., followed by a dismissive response about not visiting the U.S. border, showcases a lack of engagement with critical issues. This approach not only alienated progressive supporters but also highlighted a gap in understanding or addressing the complexities of immigration policy.
Criminal Justice and Public Safety: Harris’s flip-flop on police presence—from endorsing more officers on the street to questioning the effectiveness of increased police presence—reflects political opportunism rather than a consistent policy stance. This inconsistency could undermine public trust and effective law enforcement strategies.
Leadership and Staff Relations: Reports from former staff members paint a picture of a workplace where criticism is rampant, preparation is lacking, and morale is low. Leadership, especially at the vice-presidential level, requires not just policy acumen but also the ability to inspire and manage a team effectively. Harris’s reported management style suggests a potential for inefficiency and discontent within her administration.
Public Perception and Polls: Public sentiment, as reflected in polls, indicates a significant portion of the electorate views Harris unfavorably. Her ranking as one of the worst vice presidents in recent history, coupled with adjectives like ‘incompetent’ being frequently associated with her, underscores a crisis of confidence among the American people.
Constitutional Rights: Her stance on further curtailing the Second Amendment and her association with a vice presidential pick who questions free speech rights, touches on fundamental freedoms. These positions could lead to policies that infringe on constitutional rights, a concerning prospect for many Americans who value these liberties.
While significant achievements have marked Kamala Harris’s rise to prominence, her policy proposals, handling of key issues, and leadership style present substantial reasons for concern. For voters prioritizing economic freedom, effective immigration policy, consistent criminal justice reform, and the preservation of constitutional rights, these points offer compelling arguments against supporting her candidacy. The decision to vote or not to vote for Kamala Harris should be weighed against these considerations, reflecting on what kind of leadership and policies the United States needs moving forward.
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✅ Harris is proposing genuinely socialist economic policies such as price controls and looking to curtail the Second Amendment further than any president before, and her vice presidential choice doesn’t even believe in the freedom of speech.
✅ During a trip to Guatemala just six months into her tenure, when she was tasked with handling immigration, she angered progressives by telling Guatemalans “do not come” to the U.S., then sparked even more backlash when she told NBC’s Lester Holt when asked why she hadn’t visited the U.S. border “and I haven’t been to Europe, I don’t understand the point you’re making.”
✅ While she wrote in her 2009 book, “Smart on Crime,” that she would endorse having more officers on the street, she told The New York Times in 2020, in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd “it is status-quo thinking to believe that putting more police on the streets creates more safety . . .it’s just wrong.”
✅ One of her first policy proposals as the Democratic Party’s White House candidate, Kamala Harris insisted that the country needs “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries.”
In 2022 when inflation was peaking, the average profit margin for a grocery store was 2.3%. Not only was this profit margin lower than 2021 (2.9%) but it is also well below the average business profit margin between 8 and 9%. Making the exploitation argument even weirder, profit margins fell further to 1.6% in 2023.
✅ The complaints cover the waterfront: Harris is no fun to work for. She doesn’t do her homework and then blames the staff when she’s unprepared. “With Kamala,” one former staffer told the Washington Post, “you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.”
✅ Last year 59% of California voters in a Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll said they would not welcome her on the top of the ticket.
✅ Kamala Harris is viewed as the worst vice president in decades, according to an exclusive poll for DailyMail.com.
Some 40 percent of respondents placed her ahead of Republicans Mike Pence and Dick Cheney as the worst recent holder of the office.
When asked to pick a word to summarize the vice president, respondents picked ‘incompetent’ far ahead of complimentary words such as ‘smart’ and ‘strong.’
✅ Harris has repeated the claim that former President Donald Trump “intends to cut Social Security and Medicare,” even though he did not attempt to cut either retirement program when he was president, and he has said that he will not cut them in a second term.
In his four years as president, Trump did not propose cutting Social Security’s retirement benefits, and his budgets included bipartisan proposals to reduce the growth of Medicare without cutting benefits.
✅ She has referred to Project 2025 — a conservative plan for deeply cutting and overhauling the federal government — as Trump’s “extreme Project 2025 agenda.” Trump has disavowed the project, which he described as “seriously extreme.”
✅ Harris has repeated the misleading impression that Trump was to blame for the loss of “tens of thousands” of manufacturing jobs. Actually, the U.S. added more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs under Trump — until the economic effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic reversed all those job gains.
✅ In February, 2024, Renowned columnist George Will asserted that President Joe Biden’s decision to appoint Kamala Harris as Vice President stands as the most significant blunder of his presidency.
✅ Biden didn’t pick Harris for an electoral boost, nor did he pick her for her political talent. Harris’s time in the national spotlight going back to 2019 has included embarrassing blunders such as suggesting rural people are incapable of using photocopiers and being unprepared for obvious questions about her few responsibilities as vice president. Harris is famous for her rambling word salad answers that make her sound like a broken artificial intelligence chatbot.
✅ Axios even reported that she had to hold a “mock dinner” before dinner with journalists because Harris is so inauthentic that she cannot even speak to dinner guests without rehearsing it.
✅ Ms Harris’ shifting opinion on this issue damaged her presidential campaign. She was one of the first top Democrats to join Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2017 Medicare for All bill to provide government-run medical insurance for every American.
But after professing support for eliminating private health insurance companies, she swiftly backtracked.
✅ During her White House bid, Ms Harris promised to use executive action to enact stricter gun control if she became president.
Like most Democrats, she supported more regulation of gun manufacturers, mandatory background checks, tightening loopholes and a ban on assault weapons.
She also said she was open to the idea of going even further and supporting a “mandatory buyback”, compelling owners of assault weapons to forfeit those guns.
✅ On Aug. 9, 2019, the fifth anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man, Harris tweeted: “Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America. His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement.”
But the Department of Justice under then-President Obama found that Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in “self-defense,” not murdered.
✅ In a tweet, Harris cited preliminary IRS tax refund data to criticize the Republican tax law as “a middle-class tax hike.” But that’s not what the data showed.
A day after the Washington Post reported in February 2019 that the average tax refund check was down $170 for 2019 compared with 2018, based on preliminary IRS data, Harris used that figure, and added: “Let’s call the President’s tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%.”
But, as Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, told us: “Refunds are not the same as taxes that you owe. Refunds tell you nothing about whether a person’s tax liability has changed.” In fact, the vast majority of “middle-class” taxpayers were expected to get a tax cut in 2018 under the new law, he said.In a tweet, Harris cited preliminary IRS tax refund data to criticize the Republican tax law as “a middle-class tax hike.” But that’s not what the data showed.
A day after the Washington Post reported in February 2019 that the average tax refund check was down $170 for 2019 compared with 2018, based on preliminary IRS data, Harris used that figure, and added: “Let’s call the President’s tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the pockets of already wealthy corporations and the 1%.”
But, as Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, told us: “Refunds are not the same as taxes that you owe. Refunds tell you nothing about whether a person’s tax liability has changed.” In fact, the vast majority of “middle-class” taxpayers were expected to get a tax cut in 2018 under the new law, he said.
✅ In a June 2019 Democratic debate, Harris, pushing back against Trump’s claims that the economy was doing great, said, “Well yeah, people in America are working — they’re working two and three jobs.”
But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percentage of American workers who held multiple jobs at the time (5%) was virtually unchanged from the percentage (4.9%) when Trump was inaugurated in January 2017.
As of February 2020 — prior to the declaration of the coronavirus pandemic in March — 5.1% of employed individuals held multiple jobs.
✅ According to the New York Times, just this week, the Harris campaign, but not Harris herself, said she no longer supports a ban on fracking, no longer supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, no longer supports mandatory gun buybacks, and no longer supports banning private health insurance.
The problem is that everything Republicans are saying about Harris’s record is true. She is on tape, multiple times, calling for a fracking ban. Same with mandatory gun buybacks and banning private health insurance. She even endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) Medicare for All bill, going as far as to thank him for his leadership on the matter.
And on “Abolish ICE,” Harris has a strong, established track record of backing legislation that defunds immigration law enforcement in favor of the very nonprofit groups that encourage and facilitate illegal immigration. In 2018, she encouraged her fellow senators to reject a Trump administration request for additional funding for new Border Patrol agents and ICE detention beds. And in 2019, she introduced legislation that would have taken $220 million from ICE and given it to nonprofit groups that aid illegal immigrants.
✅ In a June 2020 interview, U.S. Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said of the nationwide anti-police brutality protests: “Everyone beware. They’re not gonna stop before election day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after election day … They’re not gonna let up, and they should not.”
SNOPES: Correct Attribution
✅ Here’s what Democrats want to do: Make a cosmetic, surface-level change, while keeping their policies and agenda completely untouched. They’re delighted with the direction we’re heading and simply want to switch drivers. And it makes sense: They’ve occupied the White House 12 out of the past 16 years! This is what they truly believe.
Meanwhile, 65% of American voters disagree, believing that our country is heading in the wrong direction and is in dire need of a course correction.
The Center Square Voters’ Voice poll found 65% of voters said the country is headed in the wrong direction, 24% said the country is headed in the right direction and 11% were unsure.
✅ Vice President Kamala Harris is proposing radical policies that will undermine America’s continued success as a medical innovator. A video was recently uncovered from Harris’ failed 2020 presidential campaign which exposes her disturbing view of how the federal government should treat the patents of private companies.
“I will snatch their patent so that we [the federal government] will take over,” said Harris. “Yes, we can do that! The question is: ‘Do you have the will to do it?’ I have the will to do it.”
This kind of approach is what you expect to see in dictatorships like Venezuela and China. Whether you call it socialism or communism, it’s certainly not capitalism — nor is it mainstream. Even Howard Dean, an avowed progressive who chaired the Democratic National Committee, has criticized the Biden-Harris efforts to erode patent protections as “the wrong way to reduce drug prices” that threatens U.S. global leadership, our manufacturing base and our life-saving research and development ecosystem.
It’s very telling that Harris’s first major policy proposal during her campaign was calling for even more government takeover of private industry and socialist-style price controls — on everything from food to housing to medicine. If she succeeds, her agenda would be an unmitigated disaster for all Americans, with costs no one can afford.
✅ Speaking to supporters in North Carolina, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “We here agree that access to healthcare should be a right and not just a privilege of those who can afford it.”
Declaring health care a right does not make it so. Health care is a suite of goods and services, subject to the laws of supply and demand, just like everything else in our economy.
First of all, it’s impossible to agree on what these rights entail. Does a “right to health care” mean people are entitled to basic things like vaccines and the ability to go to a doctor? Or does it cover a wider array of things, like surgeries and cutting-edge drugs?
Let’s imagine for a moment that we could all agree on what a right to health care does or ought to include. That does not solve the biggest problem with positive rights, namely that they deal with finite resources.
Declaring a right to housing does not open up land for development or pay for timber and tools, nor does declaring a right to education hire teachers and get kids to attend class.
Similarly, declaring a right to health care does not change the fact that there are only so many doctors, hospital beds, and vials of medicine to go around. As with all other goods and services, access to these things is not determined by philosophical concepts, but by economic factors and government regulation.
✅ Is there any daylight between Harris and President Joe Biden on policy? The answer is no. She has not criticized or attempted to distance herself from anything the Biden-Harris administration has done, on immigration, inflation, the pervasive antisemitism on college campuses, etc.
If you listen to the leftwing punditry argue in favor of Harris, you’re reminder of how little she brings to the table. She wasn’t in the Senate long enough to have any accomplishments; she authored no legislation that became law.
The only thing she was known for in the Senate was being combative in confirmation hearings on the Judiciary Committee. But she stopped no nominees, and even her most famous moment, when she smeared Brett Kavanaugh, saw her eviscerated by liberal media outlets for lying. Weirdly, the very same Washington Post that gave her 4 Pinocchios for her smear of Kavanaugh is now singing her praises over the very same performance.
✅ POLITIFACT: Kamala Harris stated on April 15, 2024 in a moderated conversation:
“As many as 75% of school shootings resulted from a gun that was not secured.”
Harris’ comments come after parents Jennifer and James Crumbley were sentenced to 10 years in prison for a deadly mass shooting their son committed in 2021 at his Michigan high school.
We took a closer look at the statistic and found the study Harris cites concluded that some school shooters acquired firearms that were considered unsecured or easily accessible in family homes — but not 75%.
✅ POLITIFACT: Kamala Harris stated on July 31, 2023 in an interview with ABC News:
“There are polls that also say I have great approval ratings.”
Among more than 100 publicly released polls dating to October 2021, none shows Vice President Kamala Harris with approval ratings that outweigh disapproval ratings.
FiveThirtyEight, a polling aggregation website, shows the average for Harris’ recent approval polls have hovered around 12 points “underwater.”
✅ POLITIFACT: Kamala Harris stated on October 28, 2023 in an interview with CBS News:
“Because of our economic policies we now are reducing inflation.”
Inflation has fallen since mid-2022 on President Joe Biden’s watch, and some of his policies may have helped on the margins, economists say.
However, the biggest reason for the disinflationary pattern has been something the administration doesn’t control: interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.
A decline in oil prices and a slowdown in China’s economy, which the administration can’t control, either, have helped, too, economists say.
✅ POLITIFACT: Kamala Harris stated on July 21, 2023 in in a speech in Jacksonville, Florida:
“Some states have “tried to ban teaching Latino and Hispanic history.”
In 2010, then-Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, signed a bill into law that banned teaching ethnic studies in public schools. This law applied to all ethnic studies, not just Latino or Hispanic history. But in 2017, a federal court overturned the ban, concluding that it violated students’ constitutional rights.
The Texas State Board of Education in 2016 rejected a Mexican American studies textbook because it contained errors and racist content.
✅ POLITIFACT: Kamala Harris stated on September 4, 2019 in a CNN climate town hall:
Says she “sued Exxon Mobil” as California attorney general.
There’s no public record, and nothing that Harris’ campaign could provide, to show she filed a lawsuit against the company.
“The facts are Harris opened an investigation against Exxon for lying about climate change. She didn’t take that further even though she should have and other attorney generals did,” said Kassie Siegel, climate director at the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund. “She did bring some cases against oil companies. I’m not aware of a case that she actually brought against Exxon. And she didn’t bring the case against Exxon for lying about climate change.”
✅ POLITIFACT: Kamala Harris stated on August 12, 2019 in a CNN interview:
It “is estimated that as many as 300,000 auto workers may be out of a job before the end of the year.”
After the interview, Harris’ campaign told CNN the 300,000 number is from a February study by the Center For Automotive Research, CAR.
The research group examined the impact of a 25 percent tariff Trump proposed on all imported cars and auto parts except on Canada, Mexico and South Korea. It estimated that between about 70,000 jobs and 367,000 jobs would be lost across all sectors of the U.S. economy, but not specifically among autoworkers, under a “worst-case scenario.” In May, Trump delayed for six months his decision on whether to impose the tariffs.
✅ POLITIFACT: Kamala Harris stated on April 22, 2019 in a CNN town hall:
“The majority of women are minimum wage workers.”
One aspect of Harris’ answer was problematic — the part where she said that gender, racial and ethnic pay differences are comparisons for “doing the same work.” As we have often noted, wage gaps are not calculated on an apples-to-apples basis comparing the same jobs. Instead, they reflect overall pay for all jobs held by men and women, meaning that gender-based patterns of job selection — whether due to discrimination or voluntary choices — play a role in creating the pay gap.
But here we’ll focus on a separate part of Harris’ response — the part where she said that “the majority of women are minimum wage workers.” This is incorrect.
According to 2017 data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1,824,000 Americans were paid the minimum wage or less. (Sub-minimum-wage workers exist because there are a few exceptions to the federal minimum wage law, such as for students and tipped workers.) Of that pool of minimum wage workers, 678,000 were men and 1,146,000 were women.
During 2017, the economy as a whole employed approximately 72 million women, meaning that 1.6% of all female workers were paid at or below the minimum wage. So it’s incorrect to say that “the majority of women are minimum wage workers.”
✅ ALL IN THE FAMILY…
Following a Daily Mail report that second gentleman Doug Emhoff cheated on his first wife with his children’s nanny, Emhoff acknowledged the affair in a statement to CNN. The story comes as Vice President Kamala Harris, Emhoff’s current wife, has become the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
“During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions,” Harris’ husband told CNN. “I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side.”
The statement came after The Daily Mail reported that Emhoff had an affair with Najen Naylor (now 47) in 2006 when she was his children’s nanny as well as his children’s teacher at their “pricey private school,” The Willows, where tuition fees range from $32,525 to $41,535.
That affair resulted in a pregnancy, The Daily Mail reported, but Naylor allegedly “did not keep the child.” She has not responded to requests for comment from The Daily Signal.
✅ Following Kamala’s trainwreck interview with CNN, body language expert Susan Constantine says she believes Harris was “not confident in what she’s saying” and lacked a presidential demeanor.
Constantine told Fox News Digital, “When I look at her overall demeanor, she does not carry the confidence or the presidential appearance in her demeanor to command in her position.”
“So for everything that I saw last night, she definitely needs to make some tweaks into her body language to appear more confident.”
She added, “The fact that she’s looking down a lot removes a lot of the fluidity and the authenticity.”
✅ Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris provided narration for a short animated clip that appeared on her Twitter feed Sunday. In the clip, Harris gives voice to a leftist-progressive narrative about the importance of equity—equal outcomes—rather than mere equality before the law.
“There’s a big difference between equality and equity,” says Harris. “Equality suggests, ‘Oh, everyone should get the same amount.’ The problem with that, not everybody’s starting in the same place.”
Harris contrasted equal treatment—all people getting the same thing—with equitable treatment, which means “we all end up at the same place.”
This may seem like a trivial difference, but when it comes to public policy, the difference matters. A government should be obligated to treat all citizens equally, giving them the same access to civil rights and liberties like voting, marriage, religious freedom, and gun ownership. The government cannot deny rights to certain people because they are black, female, Muslim, etc.—this would be unequal treatment.
A mandate to foster equity, though, would give the government power to violate these rights in order to achieve identical social results for all people. In accordance with this thinking, the authorities might be justified in giving some people more rights than others. Indeed, this would arguably be strictly necessary, in order to create a society where everyone ends up in the exact same situation.