She is a radical leftist.
THE TEXT BELOW is snipped from Matt Margolis, "The Media [Are] Absolutely Wacko for Claiming Kamala Harris Is a ' Moderate'," jpmedia.com, August 13, 2020.
After Mr. Margolis wrote his article, Senator Harris publicly moderated some extreme positions she had supported earlier. She moved slightly to the center, at least cosmetically. She did it for political expediency, I believe, as for a genuine change of heart or mind.
Mr. Margolis's description of Ms. Harris's views is a true portrait of who she is. It shows how she would govern if she were to succeed to the office of president, where she would be the most radical leftist . . .
. . . ever to hold the White House, eclipsing Presidents Obama, Clinton, Carter, Johnson, Truman, F.D. Roosevelt, and Wilson.
America would never recover.
Mr. Margolis's article (emphasis added):
[The] media [have] tried to paint Joe Biden as a centrist candidate. Now that he’s picked Kamala Harris as his running mate, the media [are] doing [their] best to reinvent her as a moderate consensus candidate as well.
The New York Times [called] her “a pragmatic moderate” who was “among the safest choices available to Mr. Biden" . . . .
David Byler at the Washington Post called Kamala a “small-c conservative, party-friendly pick.”
Moira Donegan at The Guardian said that in picking Harris the Biden campaign is “resoundingly signaling that it is the centrist and pragmatic voters – particularly older Black voters – and not the younger progressive left, that they feel they have the most to gain from appealing to.”
[Kamala] Harris is not a moderate, a small-c conservative, or anything that comes remotely close to a centrist. . . .
She supports Bernie’s Medicare for All
[Supporting] Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-all plan puts you as far as . . . possible from the political [center, and] that’s exactly where Kamala Harris stands.
[When asked the best way "to ensure that people have access to quality health care at an affordable price," she said,] “I believe the solution — and I actually feel very strongly about this — is that we need to have Medicare for all. That’s just the bottom line.”
[Asked] about . . . private insurance. Kamala said, “Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on.” . . .
She supports the Green New Deal
["I] support a Green New Deal," [Harris has said, "and I will tell you why: climate change is an existential threat to us and we have got to deal with the reality of it.”
The Green New Deal [Kamala Harris endorsed] is estimated to cost about $93 trillion . . . or roughly $600,000 per U.S. household, according to a study co-authored by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, . . . former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. . . .
She’s anti-Catholic
In 2018, Kamala Harris suggested that Judge Brian Buescher was unfit to serve on the [federal] bench because he is a member of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization and charitable group with millions of members.
“Since 1993, you have been a member of the Knights of Columbus, an all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men,” Harris began. “In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as ‘a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.’ Mr. Anderson went on to say that ‘abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale.’ Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?” . . .
Harris also asked Buescher if he was aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed same-sex marriage when he joined the organization. . . . What Harris was suggesting is that [any] practicing Catholic should be disqualified from serving on the bench.
She supports studying the issue of reparations for slavery
[Kamala] Harris supports the concept of reparations. While she doesn’t quite know what that would mean, she believes it should be “studied.”“[Reparations] means different things to different people. But what I mean by it is that we need to study the effects of generations of discrimination and institutional racism and determine what can be done, in terms of intervention, to correct course.”
It’s not clear whether Harris, who reportedly is the descendant of slaveholders, would pay or receive reparations.
She’s rabidly pro-abortion
Kamala Harris has a 100 percent rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America for every year she’s served in the U.S. Senate. . . . An overwhelming majority of Americans oppose late-term abortions, but Kamala Harris is a proponent of virtually unrestricted abortion, and is entirely in the pocket of Planned Parenthood.
[During] debates, Harris clashed with Biden over his past support of the Hyde Amendment, which banned the use of federal funding for abortions. “Why did it take you so long to change your position on the Hyde Amendment?” she asked. “Why did it take so long, until you were running for president, to change your position on the Hyde Amendment?” . . .
She’s anti-Second Amendment
“[I] support a mandatory gun buyback program,” Harris said last year. “It’s got to be smart. We’ve got to do it the right way but there are five million [assault weapons] at least, some estimate as many as 10 million, and we’re going to have to have smart public policy that’s about taking those off the streets, but doing it the right way.”
Not even Hillary Clinton supported mandatory gun buybacks.
[“During] her short-lived presidential campaign, she demanded gun-control legislation within 100 days and threatened executive action if Congress didn’t deliver,” National Shooting Sports Foundation spokesman Mark Oliva told the Washington Free Beacon. . . .[The] GovTrack 2018 report card ranked the California Democrat 96th out of 99 senators on a scale of most conservative to most liberal, placing her to the left of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who ranked 87th, and slightly to the right of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who placed 98th.
[Progressive] Punch listed her as the fifth-most progressive senator, with a lifetime “crucial votes” score of 96.76 out of 100, [more progressive than] Sanders, who scored 94.93 and ranked tenth.
On her “overall record,” she ranked fifth with a score of 97.18, still to the left of Sanders, who placed eighth, but behind Warren, who placed second with a score of 98.53.
[Depending] on the source, she’s either between socialists Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, or further to the left than they are. . . .
The American Conservative Union . . . gave her a 0 rating in 2019, and a lifetime rating of 3.03 out of 100. . . .
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