Of course she wouldn’t have done anything different than President Biden. She’s the empty replacement figurehead.
In her appearance on “The View” this week, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked if she would have done anything differently than President Joe Biden over the past four years. She answered, incredibly, “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”
Commentators were quick to note how disastrous an answer it was given Harris’ previous efforts to distinguish herself from Biden, whose tenure in office is widely seen as a failure. The problem for Harris of course is that she’s the current vice president, which means she’s not the challenger but the de facto incumbent. Distinguishing herself from Biden was always going to be difficult. What’s more, the Biden White House has gone out of its way to emphasize how integral Harris has been to the administration. Biden himself said last week, she has been “a major player in everything we’ve done.”
Previous attempts by Harris to distance herself from Biden, like choosing “A New Way Forward” as her campaign slogan, or talking about what she’ll do on “day one in office,” have come off as fake and half-hearted. They have also lacked credibility. As former President Donald Trump noted in the debate last month, she’s been in office nearly four years. Why hasn’t she done any of the things she says she’ll do if she wins the presidency?
But Harris’ answer on “The View” also did something else, which might be even worse for her electoral prospects than endorsing all of Biden’s decisions. She inadvertently exposed the uncomfortable truth at the heart of her campaign, which Harris and the corporate media desperately don’t want to talk about.
And the truth is this: she’s only running for president because it became impossible to hide Biden’s cognitive decline.
Harris isn’t running because she has a vision for the country. She’s not running because she thinks it’s time to “change direction” or because she has a “new way forward.” She doesn’t even have any major policies initiatives.
She’s running because she’s not Joe Biden. That’s it. The entire theory of her campaign comes down to this: Biden was unfit to run so someone else had to, and there was no practical way to pass over the vice president, so she gets to be the nominee.