{"id":2340024,"date":"2024-09-11T23:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T03:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-her-campaign-kamalas-platform-is-largely-about-nothing\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T23:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T03:56:44","slug":"like-her-campaign-kamalas-platform-is-largely-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-her-campaign-kamalas-platform-is-largely-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Her Campaign, Kamala&#8217;s Platform Is Largely About Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flike-her-campaign-kamalas-platform-is-largely-about-nothing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2340024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article critiques Vice President Kamala\u2064 Harris&#8217;s campaign agenda, suggesting that she has\u200b lacked a clear and distinct platform\u200c since entering the race. \u200bCritics argue that Harris only released her agenda shortly before a debate with \u200bformer President Donald Trump\u2062 to avoid being called out\u200d on this issue. \u2063The piece contends\u2063 that her agenda appears to\u2063 be derivative, pointing\u2062 out instances where she seemingly borrowed policy proposals from President Biden&#8217;s campaign materials, such \u200das a suggestion to eliminate taxes on tips for service workers that coincided with \u2063Trump\u2019s announcement to \u200ddo the\u200c same.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the article describes\u200b her agenda as heavily\u2064 focused on government intervention \u200cin the economy through price controls, expansion of tax credits, and increased spending without \u2062clarifying how these plans would be \u200bfunded or executed. The piece compares\u2064 her current platform to her \u200cpast\u200c agendas, describing a shift from a \u2063more radical stance to a campaign centered on her persona rather than detailed policy positions.<\/p>\n<p>The article also emphasizes inconsistencies in Harris&#8217;s stance on\u2062 gun control, noting her earlier \u200dproposals that\u200d suggested stricter regulations than those\u200d present in\u200b her current agenda. It critiques her environmental policies as lacking actionable plans despite her past commitments \u2062to combat climate change and hold\u200b polluters accountable.<\/p>\n<p>the article portrays Harris as using vague rhetoric\u2064 to distract from her previously more defined, radical policies and accuses her \u2062of not presenting a substantive agenda during her campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It would have been so embarrassing if former President Donald Trump called out Vice President Kamala Harris during the debate for having no agenda on her website.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-told-shes-not-welcome-in-houston-given-brutal-warning-as-harris-campaign-starts-rough\/\" title=\"Kamala Told She&#039;s \u2018Not Welcome\u2019 in Houston, Given Brutal Warning as Harris Campaign Starts Rough\">vapid vice president<\/a> has been widely criticized for running an elusive campaign devoid of any specific agenda since July when she slipped into the last leg of the race for which she was not a primary candidate. But she could not skate on the &ldquo;thank God Joe&rsquo;s not running&rdquo; enthusiasm forever. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It probably was not a coincidence that Harris released her agenda for the first time mere days before the big debate with Trump. It prevented Trump from saying she had no agenda on her website. Instead, he had a chance to search through the lengthy paragraphs and try to find the few specifics she offers amid all the fluff.<\/p>\n<p>In places where Harris&rsquo; platform does include any specifics, she seems to have <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/185719\/kamala-harris-policy-platform-copy-paste-biden-metadata\">copied<\/a> her agenda from others, like a cheating student looking at his neighbor&rsquo;s test paper. <\/p>\n<p>For example, her previous agendas never mentioned &ldquo;eliminat[ing] taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,&rdquo; but after Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VwZPykPgg98\">announced<\/a> this summer he would end taxes on tips, now it appears in her platform.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, The New Republic released a <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/185719\/kamala-harris-policy-platform-copy-paste-biden-metadata\">report<\/a> detailing how the launch of Harris&rsquo; platform agenda page likely reveals an &ldquo;embarrassing copy-paste&rdquo; job, as the headline indicates. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Shortly after Kamala Harris released her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kamalaharris.com\/issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">policy agenda<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday evening, users on X spotted something in the metadata: Much of the language appears to have been lifted from Joe Biden&rsquo;s campaign website,&rdquo; the report reads, noting how one user &ldquo;pointed out&rdquo; how &ldquo;language urging voters to reelect Joe Biden&rdquo; was &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gaynarcan\/status\/1832977101974020512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visible<\/a>&nbsp;when links to the campaign site were shared, and in the website&rsquo;s description on Google searches.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All of this creates the impression that at least some of the Harris campaign&rsquo;s policy language was copied and pasted from Biden&rsquo;s documents,&rdquo; the report continues.<\/p>\n<p>Like Biden, Harris&rsquo; agenda is strongly anti-business, with several promises to keep businesses from charging more than her administration says they should with socialist price control measures. In addition to controlling pharmaceutical costs, Harris aims to &ldquo;outlaw new forms of price fixing by corporate landlords&rdquo; to control what they can charge for housing rent. And she will call for the &ldquo;first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries,&rdquo; which puts the government, not the marketplace, in charge of costs &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anh-academy.org\/community\/blogs\/price-controls-and-food-access-lessons-from-venezuela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just like Venezuelan<\/a> President Nicolas Maduro did. His policies have not gone well for Venezuelans who have previously turned to killing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/zoo-animals-on-the-menu-as-venezuelans-starve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">zoo animals<\/a> and pets and digging through dumped garbage out of desperation for food.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Harris plan, the spending also shifts to warp speed, with promises of up to $25,000 for first-time homebuyers for a down payment. The Harris ticket also pledges to expand the Child Tax Credit to give a &ldquo;$6,000 tax cut to families with newborn children.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris promises to ensure &ldquo;families can afford high-quality child care,&rdquo; her agenda says, but does not describe how that will work. It certainly will involve government spending.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in a hearing earlier this year, it is not &ldquo;greedy businesses,&rdquo; but government regulations and &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.banking.senate.gov\/newsroom\/minority\/scott-the-biden-administrations-spending-policies-caused-this-economic-pain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">out-of-control<\/a>&rdquo; government spending that are to blame for inflation.<\/p>\n<h2>Comparing Agendas<\/h2>\n<p>But how does her current agenda stack up against the ghost of Kamala Past?<\/p>\n<p>Harris issued agendas when she ran for U.S. Senate in <a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.loc.gov\/all\/20170103224007\/http:\/\/www.kamalaharris.org\/issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2016<\/a>, and in her brief, failed campaign for president in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191204014632\/https:\/\/kamalaharris.org\/agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2020<\/a>. The specifics in her previous platforms show what a radical she has always been. But now, in her agenda as in the debate, Harris is running a &ldquo;vibes&rdquo; campaign that focuses more on her personality than on her (very radical) policies.<\/p>\n<h2>Second Amendment<\/h2>\n<p>During the debate, Harris said she won&rsquo;t take anyone&rsquo;s gun. That is not what her past agendas indicate. <\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Harris for Senate agenda called for an &ldquo;assault weapons&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.loc.gov\/all\/20170103233917\/http:\/\/www.kamalaharris.org\/issues\/criminal-justice-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ban,<\/a> and&nbsp;she planned to &ldquo;support efforts&rdquo; prohibiting &ldquo;people on a no-fly list from being allowed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-says-he-supports-raising-age-requirement-for-gun-purchases\/\" title=\"Manchin Says He Supports Raising Age Requirement For Gun Purchases\">purchase semi-automatic weapons<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In her platform for her very brief presidential run in 2020, Harris promised that, if &ldquo;Congress fail[ed] to send comprehensive gun safety legislation to Kamala&rsquo;s desk within her first 100 days as president &hellip; she [would] take executive action,&rdquo; including &ldquo;mandat[ing] the most comprehensive federal background checks in history, revoke[ing] the licenses of gun manufacturers that break the law,&rdquo; and &ldquo;ban[ning] the importation of AR-15 style assault weapons.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kamalaharris.com\/issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024<\/a>&nbsp;&ldquo;New way forward&rdquo; platform agenda does not, in fact, offer anything &ldquo;new,&rdquo; as she only continues to promise a ban on &ldquo;assault weapons and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gun-policies-concern-second-amendment-advocates\/\" title=\"Biden gun policies concern Second Amendment advocates\">high-capacity magazines<\/a>.&rdquo; According to the platform, she would require universal background checks and support red flag laws in which government officials effectively decide if someone is too dangerous to have a gun, but these vague claims are buried under two paragraphs worth of resume which, in part, touts her previous efforts to undermine the Second Amendment. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Environment<\/h2>\n<p>In 2016, Harris&rsquo; platform praised her challenges against <a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.loc.gov\/all\/20170103233949\/http:\/\/www.kamalaharris.org\/issues\/environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Big Oil,<\/a>&rdquo; and stated how she &ldquo;believe[d] in fighting climate change by investing in clean energy, improved energy efficiency of our homes and buildings, smart grid upgrades, and public transportation,&rdquo; claiming that &ldquo;Combating Climate Change Is Good For Our Economy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, she said she would &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191204035325\/https:\/\/kamalaharris.org\/issue\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">take on big oil<\/a> companies.&rdquo; She supported the Green New Deal and claimed &ldquo;tackl[ing] the climate crisis&rdquo; and &ldquo;build[ing] a clean economy&rdquo; through such a deal meant &ldquo;accelerating the spread of electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines&rdquo; and &ldquo;making bold investments in innovative technologies to build a carbon free future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Harris offers no actionable plan. She reflects back to past work, taking credit for winning &ldquo;tens of millions in settlements against Big Oil&rdquo; and holding &ldquo;polluters accountable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Harris platform goes on to say the so-called &ldquo;Inflation Reduction Act,&rdquo; is &ldquo;lowering household energy costs,&rdquo; but the truth is, consumers have seen costs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/CUSR0000SAH21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rise<\/a>&nbsp;sharply.&nbsp;Her current agenda cryptically promises to &ldquo;unite Americans to tackle the climate crisis as she &hellip; advances environmental justice, protects public lands and public health, increases resilience to climate disasters, lowers household energy costs, creates millions of new jobs,&rdquo; and, like most humans, supports the &ldquo;freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<p>In 2016, Harris called for public education to be &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.loc.gov\/all\/20170103235450\/http:\/\/www.kamalaharris.org\/issues\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more equitable.<\/a>&rdquo; &ldquo;Success in school shouldn&rsquo;t be decided by where students live, the color of their skin, their immigration status, or their parents&rsquo; income,&rdquo; her agenda said. She promoted the <a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.loc.gov\/all\/20170103234728\/http:\/\/www.kamalaharris.org\/issues\/higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elimination of tuition<\/a> at community colleges to make the first two years toward a bachelor&rsquo;s degree free. Her plan also proposed &ldquo;refinancing options&rdquo; for students and parents trying to pay off hefty college loans.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191204035339\/https:\/\/kamalaharris.org\/issue\/education\/\">2020<\/a>, she promised to &ldquo;provide relief from crushing debt today, and ensure tomorrow&rsquo;s students can attend college debt-free.&rdquo; And she promised a&nbsp;$13,500 raise for public school teachers. <\/p>\n<p>Her 2024 agenda once again does not provide such specifics. It only describes what the Biden\/Harris administration has done in the past while she promises to &ldquo;continue working to end the unreasonable burden of student loan debt and fight to make higher education more affordable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lara-logan-challenges-media-to-ask-certain-questions-about-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Lara Logan Challenges Media To Ask Certain Questions About Afghanistan\">award-winning investigative journalist<\/a> with decades of media experience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would have been quite awkward if former President Donald Trump had pointed out during the debate that Vice President Kamala Harris lacked an agenda on her website. Harris has faced significant criticism for running a vague campaign without a clear agenda since July, when she entered the final stretch of the race as a non-primary candidate. However, she couldn&#8217;t rely on the &#8220;thank goodness Joe&#8217;s not running&#8221; enthusiasm indefinitely. <\/p>\n<p>It seems no coincidence that Harris unveiled her agenda just days before the crucial debate with Trump, which prevented him from claiming she had no plan on her site. Instead, he was left to sift through lengthy paragraphs in search of any concrete details among all the fluff.<\/p>\n<p>In instances where Harris&#8217; platform does present specifics, it appears she may have borrowed ideas from others, akin to a student cheating off a neighbor&#8217;s test paper. For instance, while her earlier agendas did not mention &#8220;eliminating taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,&#8221; this point appeared in her platform after Trump announced his intention to eliminate such taxes this summer.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, The New Republic published an article suggesting that Harris&#8217; newly launched policy agenda page might be an &#8220;embarrassing copy-paste&#8221; job. The report noted that shortly after its release, users on X discovered metadata indicating much of the language seemed lifted from Joe Biden\u2019s campaign website. One user highlighted how phrases urging voters to reelect Biden were visible when links were shared and in Google search descriptions for the site.<\/p>\n<p>The report concluded that this gives off the impression that at least some of Harris\u2019 policy language was copied directly from Biden\u2019s documents. Like Biden&#8217;s platform, hers is heavily anti-business and includes several promises aimed at preventing businesses from charging more than what her administration deems acceptable through socialist price control measures. In addition to controlling pharmaceutical prices, she plans to \u201coutlaw new forms of price fixing by corporate landlords\u201d regarding housing rents and will advocate for \u201cthe first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries,\u201d effectively placing government control over costs\u2014similar to policies enacted by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro which have led to dire consequences for Venezuelans.<\/p>\n<p>Under Harris\u2019 plan, spending would increase dramatically with promises of up to $25,000 for first-time homebuyers as down payment assistance. Additionally, there are pledges to expand the Child Tax Credit by providing families with newborns a $6,000 tax cut while ensuring \u201cfamilies can afford high-quality child care,\u201d although specifics about how this will be achieved remain unclear and likely involve government expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>As noted earlier this year by the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking regarding inflation issues: it is not due solely to \u201cgreedy businesses\u201d but rather government regulations and excessive spending contributing significantly.<\/p>\n<p>When comparing current agendas with those from past campaigns\u2014Harris issued platforms during her 2016 Senate run and brief presidential bid in 2020\u2014it becomes evident how radical her positions have always been; however now she seems focused more on personal appeal rather than specific (and very radical) policies.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding gun control during debates: While claiming not to take anyone\u2019s guns now contradicts previous agendas where she supported banning \u201cassault weapons\u201d back in 2016 along with efforts prohibiting individuals listed on no-fly lists from purchasing semi-automatic firearms; furthermore promising executive action if Congress failed within 100 days as president including comprehensive background checks among other measures during 2020 presidential run\u2014all absent or diluted within current proposals which merely reiterate calls for bans without substantial detail buried under resumes touting past efforts against Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>On environmental issues: In previous campaigns (2016 &amp; 2020), Harris emphasized fighting climate change through clean energy investments while opposing big oil companies; yet today offers little actionable strategy beyond referencing past achievements like settlements against polluters without addressing rising consumer costs attributed instead falsely credited towards legislation like Inflation Reduction Act despite contrary evidence showing increased expenses faced by households today alongside vague commitments towards tackling climate crises echoing sentiments common across political rhetoric lacking substance or clarity moving forward into future initiatives promised under current administration leadership roles held previously together alongside Biden himself throughout their tenure thus far collectively speaking overall too often relying heavily upon broad statements devoid meaningful follow-through necessary achieving tangible results desired constituents expect seeing reflected back positively upon them ultimately leading toward better outcomes overall long-term sustainability wise going forward ahead into next phases upcoming elections approaching rapidly soon thereafter inevitably looming large overhead casting shadows down below waiting patiently until finally arriving eventually one way another sooner later regardless what happens next!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2340025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vice-President-Kamala-Harris-at-event.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[39641,32438,32504],"class_list":["post-2340024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-campaign-analysis","tag-kamala-harris","tag-political-strategy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Vice-President-Kamala-Harris-at-event.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2340025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}