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Remember Tulsi Gabbard? Well, She Remembers Harris and Not in Good Way

&NewLine;<p>One-time Democratic hopeful and long since vilified by her own party&comma; Tulsi Gabbard&comma; should serve to remind us of Kamala Harris as a flip-flopper who runs from her record instead of standing on it&period; In Gabbards own words when she shared a debate stage with the now-Democrat nominee&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president&period; But I’m deeply concerned about this record&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are too many examples to cite&comma;” Gabbard went on&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But she put over 1&comma;500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana&period; She blocked evidence — she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so&period; She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California&period; And she fought to keep a cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Harris really should have been prepared for Gabbard’s allegations&period; Instead&comma; she appeared flabbergasted and flat-footed&period; From the stage&comma; she delivered a lengthy boilerplate answer about how proud she was of her work as attorney general of California&comma; failing to respond even to a single point Gabbard had raised&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Gabbard’s comments went viral&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>At around the same time&comma; Senator Kamala Harris broke out with a couple of viral moments of her own&period; Among other things&comma; she heavily insinuated that former Vice President Joe Biden was a racist for working with segregationist senators to oppose busing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>These two events marked the beginning of the end of her 2020 campaign&period; Harris peaked in July&comma; and it was all downhill from there until she ended her campaign in December 2019&comma; before a single primary vote had been cast&period; Who could have imagined that she would have failed-upward to become the Vice President and now four years later&comma; leading the Democratic ticket&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And yet&comma; this flawed candidate&comma; this DEI hire&comma; wants the American public to think that somehow&comma; she and her record have changed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Republicans and Donald Trump seem to be having trouble identifying who Harris is&comma; where she is most vulnerable&comma; and how to best attack her&period; They should take a page for Democrat Tulsi Gabbard&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Gabbard’s targeted attacks were and are revelatory &&num;8211&semi; a reflection of the chameleon-like malleability of Harris’s political principles that have been part of her being throughout her career&period; Harris began her career in politics as a tough-on-crime — or rather&comma; as her campaign put it in 2003&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Smart on Crime” — prosecutor&period; She upset Terence Hallinan&comma; a bleeding-heart&comma; soft-on-crime incumbent San Francisco district attorney with the help of former boyfriend Willie Brown’s political machine&period; Seven years later&comma; Harris was amassing a conviction record as bad if not worse than Hallinan’s&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The old Harris was cautious&comma; calculating&comma; ambitious&comma; happy to call herself California’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;top cop&period; The new Harris&comma; who first appeared about six years ago&comma; is an entirely different animal — not just a lot more progressive but someone always eager to prove just how far left she could go&period; This Harris wants to show that if you’re woke&comma; she’s even woker&comma; the first to jump on every leftist bandwagon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This ideological transformation&comma; and her current attempts to backpedal from many of these positions she took up just a couple of years ago&comma; exposes Harris as someone whose political ideals change easily to suit the political situation&period; And that is what the Trump campaign needs to exploit if they want to derail her momentum&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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