For the first month and change after being handed a major party’s presidential nomination without earning a single vote, Kamala Harris coasted.
Democrats and their allies in the press rejoiced at no longer being saddled with Joe Biden and rewarded her with a luxurious honeymoon that she used to walk back the unpopular, far-left agenda she endorsed back in 2020 and present herself as all things to all people.
It’s been a boon to her prospects, and an injustice to voters.
On Thursday, though, Harris was finally forced to answer a question or two alongside her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
In the afternoon, CNN released a short clip to preview the veep’s interview with Dana Bash ahead of its airing that night; it was vintage Harris.
Asked about her various flip-flops on various issues – and energy policy in particular – she served up word salad: Climate change “is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”
And platitudes: “The most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed.”
