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What drives Senator Kamala Harris? Ambition is certainly a motivating factor, as it is with anyone who has the guts and desire to run for President of the United States. Making history, a close cousin of ambition, is another piece of the puzzle as she hopes to succeed where Hillary Clinton failed at becoming the first female U.S. President. But after those two factors, there doesn’t really seem to be anything else there.
Every Democrat will tell their base they want to stop President Trump because he’s an “existential threat” or whatever other scary phrase they choose to invoke. I actually believe it when Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren say it. Biden has a vested interest in protecting the piece of legacy he still has as President Obama’s VP, while Sanders and Warren think anything that isn’t full-blown communism is a threat to the America they want to build. But when Harris and many of the other candidates say it, they just aren’t as convincing.
So we’re back to making history and fueling ambition as the only apparent reasons Harris is running for President. Therein lies the real problem she has, the source of the issue that keeps her in single-digits after shooting into the mix following the June debate. Since she has no reason to run that’s not personally gratifying, she’s building her policies by sticking her finger in the air and seeing which way the primary voters’ wind is blowing. This is a technique that can work for the ideologically secure; Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, and Tulsi Gabbard do it but with a foundation from which to build, a base ideology to give their new ideas stability. With Harris, there seems to be nothing but loose dirt beneath her philosophical feet.
Bloomberg attempted to determine why she’s not winning. One of the things they identified is that she’s too “flippy-floppy”:
Why Kamala Harris Hasn’t Caught Fire in the Democratic 2020 Race
In late July, Harris backed off her previous support for replacing private insurance with a national government plan and released a proposal that preserves the option for private plans, positioning herself ideologically between Sanders and Biden on one of the most contentious issues in the race.
But rather than placating both wings, the move drew fire from all sides — the Sanders campaign accused her of going soft, Biden charged her with “double talk,” and voters were left wondering what she stands for.
“Too flippy-floppy. I just don’t like her,” said Debby Fisher of Richmond, California — near Harris’s hometown of Oakland — who plans to support Sanders.
Suzanne Cowan of San Francisco said she soured on Harris after her change on health care.
“That’s not my kind of candidate. Either you know what issues you support and you have the courage to stand up for them or you don’t,” she said. “For me she’s ‘I’ll be in favor of whatever is trending’ — and that doesn’t cut it.”
They went into other challenges the Californian faces, but this is the one that stands out as the biggest factor in her lagging success on the campaign trail. Listen to her when she speaks, particularly when she’s asked questions. Her answers are a combination of generalities, circular reasoning, and canned attacks on the President.
“We have to do it,” she might say when asked how she’s going to pay for her healthcare plan.
“The occupant of the White House is hurting our standing in the world,” she once said in reply to how she’d handle Iran.
These answers are not really answers. It’s as if she’s not trying to establish her own perspectives when given the opportunity, but instead is more comfortable deflecting questions and getting out of interviews as quickly as possible. That’s not to say she doesn’t adore the camera, but she wants to be preaching, not answering substantive queries about specifics. When challenged, she just seems confused.
How can someone seem so confused about expressing their own perspectives on a matter and still expect people to vote for them?
Pay close attention to Kamala Harris’s answers. They’re not actual answers. She can’t expound on her ideology because she’s not really sure what it is. She believes whatever she thinks you want her to believe if you’re a Democratic voter. That’s not what America needs.
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