Kamala Paints Picture of a ‘Harris Administration … with Joe Biden’ for Latino Voters
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) may only be the vice presidential nominee on the Democrat ticket, but she is already promising that a “Harris administration with Joe Biden” will be a boon to voters.
The California lawmaker, whom the former vice president said he chose as his running mate last month because of her readiness “to lead on day one,” told a group of Latino small business owners from Arizona on Saturday that it was vital they made the right choice this November.
“As part of our Build Back Better agenda, we will need to make sure you have a president in the White House who actually sees you, who understands your needs, who understands the dignity of your work, and who has your back,” Harris said in a five-minute virtual address to the group, according to the Arizona Republic.
“A Harris administration together with Joe Biden as the president of the United States, the Biden-Haris administration will provide access to 100 billion dollars in low-interest loans and investments for minority-business owners,” she added:
ABC News / FacebookHarris’ remarks come as some Democrat strategists continue to express concerns over Biden’s fitness and stamina for the presidency. Since jumping into the 2020 race, the former vice president has flummoxed many with his frequent gaffes and misstatements on the campaign trail.
The issue came to a head last week when a one-time White House stenographer, who worked exclusively with Biden during the Obama administration, told the Washington Free Beacon that the former vice president had deteriorated since leaving office.
“It is a complete difference from what he was in 2017,” the stenographer said. “He’s lost a step and he doesn’t seem to have the same mental acuity as he did four years ago.”
“He doesn’t have the energy, he doesn’t have the pace of his speaking,” they added. “He’s a different guy.
Pew: Hispanic Voters Rank Economy, Health Care as Top 2020 Issues
Hispanic voters rank economic well-being and health care as their top issues heading into the 2020 presidential election, while the issue of immigration is among one of their least pressing issues, a survey shows.
The latest Pew Research Center survey finds that 80 percent of Hispanic voters see the economy as their top issue going into the 2020 election, while 76 percent rank health care as their second most important issue.
The Chinese coronavirus crisis ranks as the third most important issue to Hispanic voters this election cycle, with 72 percent saying it is “very important” to their vote.
Among the least pressing issues to Hispanic voters are abortion, foreign policy, economic inequality, gun policy, and immigration. Less than 6-in-10 and, on some issues, less than 5-in-10 Hispanic voters said these issues were “very important” to their vote in November.
The survey debunks the widely held claim by the Republican and Democrat political establishments that national immigration policy sets the tone for Hispanic voters — many of whom are first, second, and third-generation Americans.
An infamous Republican National Committee (RNC) report following the 2012 election claimed that the only path to victory for the GOP was amnesty for 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens. In 2016, President Trump quashed the claim by winning on the most pro-immigration enforcement platform in recent history.
In the last few years, when Hispanic voters are polled on immigration issues, the majority tend to side with Trump’s pro-enforcement record that seeks to reduce foreign competition in the labor market.
Last year, for instance, Hispanic voters in the swing state of Florida said by a 74 percent majority that they support statewide, mandatory E-Verify to ban employers from hiring illegal aliens. In April, a survey by the Washington Post revealed that Hispanic Americans were the most supportive of any racial group of temporarily halting all immigration during the coronavirus crisis.
Did Biden destroy his chances when he made this promise?
Joe Biden’s presidential run is pathetic
because it’s easy to see that his mind is giving out on him, something the
majority of voters recognize. Biden’s presidential run is also scary because
the hard leftists who surround him are using him as a Trojan Horse to advance
their destructive socialist policies.
It’s these puppet masters who have pushed
the formerly middle(ish)-of-the-road (and invariably wrong) politician to make
extremist promises. Most people tend to ignore or downplay Biden’s more radical
statements, seeing them as the kind of thing politicians say during
campaigns. One ask to ask, though, whether we can afford to ignore Biden’s
promise to use his executive office to shut down the entire country again
should scientists recommend it.
During the Democrat presidential
primaries, after the no-hopers dropped out, the remaining presidential
candidates ran the gamut from left to communist, with most closer to the
communist end. Biden claimed to be the moderate candidate in the race, and
that’s how the Democrats are trying to sell him to the general public. After
all, Joe’s been around since 1972, and he’s always been a Democrat stalwart,
unlike Bernie Sanders, who’s also been around forever, but as a communist
stalwart.
Nevertheless, throughout the campaign,
even while claiming to be a moderate, Biden has signed on to every radical idea
that the Democrat party has moved into the Overton window.
He’s gone so far left that even Bernie approves:
Sen. Bernie
Sanders said Joe Biden told him that he believes he can become the most
progressive president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
“The reason I
say that I think Biden has a chance to be the most progressive president since
FDR is that is exactly what Joe Biden said to me,” Sanders, a former
presidential candidate, said in an interview Wednesday on PBS’ “Amanpour &
Company.”
“He
understands the severity of this moment,” said Sanders.
To that end, Biden’s campaign has adopted
most of Sanders’s principles or scooched as close to them as possible. Given a
compliant Congress, Biden says that he would reinstate the public option of
Obamacare, aim for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (so we can all
look like California), pay for college for families earning $125,000 or less
per year, go in big for racial (in)justice, and, grant mass amnesty to illegal aliens along with opening the borders.
Democrats appear willing to stomach all of these proposals.
The big question, though, is whether
Democrats can tolerate Biden’s most recent commitment. He insists that, if the
Wuhan virus doesn’t retreat and “the scientists” say so, he’ll use his
executive power to lock down the entire country all over again:
Democratic
presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would close the United States down over
the spread of the new virus from China if health experts recommended to do so.
“I would shut
it down; I would listen to the scientists,” Biden, a former vice president,
said in an interview with ABC News.
“I will be
prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the
country moving, until we control the virus,” Biden added. “That is the
fundamental flaw of this administration’s thinking to begin with. In order to
keep the country running and moving and the economy growing, and people
employed, you have to fix the virus, you have to deal with the virus.”
That is an insane promise. It ignores the
fact that the virus has barely touched many states, while it raked through several poorly managed
(and densely populated) Democrat-run states. It also pretends that there are no
trade-offs for holding the virus at bay. People in Democrat states have watched
their economies collapse; businesses close; people die from depression,
suicide, substance abuse, and untreated diseases; their young people stop
learning; their restaurants close; and their cities empty of businesses and high
earners (aka, the entire tax base).
While leftists have been good little
soldiers for the first round of shutdowns, aided in part by their extreme lack of perspective about the risks associated with the
Wuhan virus, will they really be willing to become prisoners in their own homes
once again? Will they be willing to see their economies get destroyed so
badly that they can never recover? Will they accept all the unnecessary
deaths that flow from preventing virus deaths?
I want to answer those rhetorical
questions by saying, “I don’t think so.” Sadly, the left is so maddened by
Trump Derangement Syndrome, the best that I can say is, “I hope not.” What I really
hope to see happen is normal people vote in overwhelming numbers for Trump on
November 3. If that happens, the leftists and those suffering from Trump
Derangement Syndrome slink back into the shadows where they belong.
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