Ten days. It’s been ten days since Kamala Harris was anointed as the Democratic Party’s Chosen One to replace the failing Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election. She has not won one primary vote, but the Democrats waved their hands over her and she’s the candidate.
And since this happened, she has not given one unscripted press conference.
Harris announced that she’d locked up the nomination late on July 22, declaring that she’d won commitments of backing from a majority of the nearly 4,000 delegates to next month’s Democratic National Convention. She’s since hit the campaign trail, spoken at various events, and even chatted with reporters here and there, but hasn’t done a formal press conference or wide-ranging interview in the 10 days that have followed.
Harris, who became the likely nominee without receiving a single primary vote when President Biden announced he would step aside, has been so elusive that The New York Times published excerpts from an interview she conducted last year to see where her answers “land now.”
Well, her answers now would land somewhere to the left of Rosa Luxemburg; that much is certain. Kamala Harris has never been anything remotely resembling a moderate, although given the Democratic Party’s recent trajectory her present-day positions on things like guns, energy, and taxation may well be considered “moderate” a generation hence. But her reticence in talking to the media – even the friendly legacy media – is starting to raise some eyebrows.
Much of the Democratic Party – including governors, senators and House members as well as party leaders – quickly coalesced behind Harris following Biden’s blockbuster news. But critics have started to take notice that Harris hasn’t faced tough questions since.
National Review senior writer Noah Rothman asked his social media followers on Wednesday, “When is Kamala Harris going to hold a press conference?”
Here’s a hint, Mr. Rothman: She won’t, for as long as she can get away with it. An open, unscripted press conference in which she would (presumably) be required to answer questions off the cuff would be to Kamala Harris as a crucifix is to Dracula.
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The RNC is rather gleefully pointing this out as well.
DAY 10: Kamala hasn’t done a single interview nor press conference since her coup to force Biden off the ticket.
Just teleprompter speeches.
What is she trying to hide?
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 31, 2024
What is she trying to hide? What is the DNC trying to hide? What is the Harris campaign trying to hide? That’s easy to answer: Kamala Harris isn’t all that bright, she’s hideously ill-informed, she can’t speak coherently for more than a sentence or two without collapsing into an intelligible word salad, and everyone knows it.
Look, the DNC and the Biden campaign, as was, sheltered befuddled old Joe Biden from any unscripted, uncontrolled events since he announced his run for the presidency in the 2020 cycle. The basement campaign was infamous, and ever since he set foot in the Oval Office he has been sheltered, coddled, protected, and every question he has answered, every statement he has made was obviously planned, pre-screened, pre-approved, and scripted. Joe Biden’s handlers didn’t dare let him go off script because every such incident resulted in disaster. They did this for old Joe because he is senile; they will do the same thing for Kamala Harris because she’s incompetent. Kamala Harris may not be suffering from late-stage dementia, but she does have various other problems: She is a horrible speaker, she has the charisma and personal appeal of an acorn, and frankly, she’s not very bright.
The Democrat machine will hold her away from any unscripted events as long as they can – but that can’t last forever. Sooner or later she will have to go off ‘prompter, perhaps in a debate with Donald Trump, and then it will be Word Salad II, Return of the Killer Word Salad, and that, trust me, will be a sight to see.
