For a candidate whose marketing campaign relies fully on floor impressions, Kamala Harris managed to make a horrible one on Thursday night time — even to her greatest cheerleaders.
The Democratic nominee for president, a lady who has by no means obtained a single vote exterior the state of California in any election, took the stage for the keynote tackle of the Democratic Nationwide Conference at Chicago’s United Middle.
And amid faking friendship together with her viewers of the trustworthy, she managed to spit out lies so blatant even the “fact-checkers” of the institution media couldn’t ignore them.
From former President Donald Trump’s stance on abortion to international coverage to tariffs and taxation, Harris reeled off a sequence of falsehoods about her Republican opponent, evaluation by even reliably liberal information retailers like The Washington Submit, The New York Instances and USA Right now famous.
And whereas they didn’t speculate on Harris’ potential motivation, even an American with the psychological capability of Joe Biden may determine it out: To present the viewers a intentionally distorted view of Trump’s plans.
As USA Right now identified, Harris lied about an alleged Trump plan to ascertain a nationwide “anti-abortion coordinator.”
The outlet famous Harris was distorting an thought put ahead by the conservative Heritage Basis’s “Mission 2025,” a Democratic bugaboo Trump hasn’t in any respect endorsed.
At The Washington Submit, “reality checker” Glenn Kessler (who’s too typically too keen to go straightforward in the case of the Biden-Harris administration) additionally discovered Harris had strayed from the reality describing Trump’s imaginative and prescient for NATO, Russian aggression and the affect of the Trump tax cuts of 2017.
The bit about coping with Russia was significantly egregious, since she claimed Trump “inspired” Russian President Vladimir Putin to “invade our allies.”
Trump by no means inspired Putin to “invade” any nation. And there are many Individuals sufficiently old to keep in mind that Putin didn’t, in reality, invade anybody whereas Trump was president. It was truly Joe Biden who “inspired” Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Trump needs the nation’s quasi-socialist European allies to pay their fair proportion for a protection now being shouldered largely by the American taxpayer — solely Democrats would have an issue with that concept.
Harris, in fact, wasn’t the one Democratic liar taking the stage in Chicago.
The New York Instances — once more, no hot-bed of conservative considering — managed to put collectively a listing of different Democratic audio system on the conference with their very own lies about Trump’s previous.
What’s vital right here isn’t a lot that Harris lied about Trump. Democrats and their institution media allies have been doing that since he introduced for the presidency in 2015.
What issues is that, for a change, some retailers have damaged from their Praetorian guard posture in the case of Harris and publicized, if solely quickly, precisely how misleading her marketing campaign truly is.
Harris is a cut-out candidate — a cardboard concoction whose attraction relies solely on the impression she makes in distinction to the feeble meanderings of the octogenarian Biden. (Even that low bar is outwardly too excessive generally.)
After virtually 4 totally unimpressive years as vp, Harris had been given an opportunity to re-introduce herself to the American public by a mainstream media virtually fully dedicated to defeating Trump in November.
In different phrases, she received an opportunity to make a second first impression on American voters.
However on Thursday night time, not even her supporters within the institution media have been fully shopping for it.
American voters in November ought to know higher, too.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
