The struggle to escape the shadow of President Joe Biden just became tougher for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Over the weekend, the Democratic nominee added a new “Issues” page to her presidential campaign website detailing her policy positions on everything from foreign affairs to immigration and combating high grocery prices. However, if she was hoping to offer voters a clean break from four years of dismal results from the White House, she may have stumbled by rushing to fill the page with vacuous new pledges. The New Republic reported that much of the text appears to have been lifted from the old campaign site of President Biden, which the outlet writes is based on source code that appears behind the copy.
“They finally added an ‘Issues’ section to her website . . . Unfortunately for Harris, its release was undermined by a simple but telling error: The page’s source code revealed that parts of the platform were copied directly from Biden’s campaign page.” https://t.co/0V3HLDSL3w
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 10, 2024
The embarrassing copy-paste was discovered in Google search results and sharable links which included hidden source code describing the need to “reelect President Biden.” The gaffe was first spotted by X user Corinne Green who noted the unmistakable similarity between many of Harris’s newfound positions and those of Biden. By late Monday she was celebrating with fellow Reddit progressives that the source code behind the page, titled “A New Way Forward,” appears to have been removed. […]
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