Ignorance is bliss. It’s also Vice President Kamala Harris’ secret weapon.
The American people can make wise voting decisions, but only when they have quite enough information to do so.
Alas, an Aug. 14 Media Research Center survey confirms that most 2020 Biden-Harris voters know shockingly little about her far-left record.
Staggering majorities of the 800 registered Democrats and 400 independents in McLaughlin & Associates’ poll were stunningly unfamiliar with Harris’ neo-Marxist words and deeds.
Last week’s Democratic National Convention taught her voters far more about Harris’ passion for cooking than about her extremist statements and actions:
- Harris would consider enfranchising death row inmates. Don Lemon asked her at an April 22, 2019, CNN town hall if imprisoned felons “like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should be allowed to vote?”
Rather than laugh at this concept, Harris said: “I think we should have that conversation.”
Among those surveyed, 86% were unaware or unsure of her views on turning every death row into a voting precinct.
- Then-Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., approved banning private health insurance: Harris advocated “Medicare for All,” a British-style socialized medicine program. When NBC’s Lester Holt asked Democratic presidential contenders, “Who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?” Harris raised her hand.
Of those polled, 81% were unacquainted with Harris’ desire to junk their private medical policies.
- Harris promoted freedom for violent protesters during the summer of 2020’s George Floyd riots. She urged supporters via Facebook and Twitter to “chip in” donations for the Minnesota Freedom Fund. MFF bailed out rioters. Some then attacked and killed people. That was news to 78% of those polled.
Some 71% were astonished that Harris backed defunding the police. She told Nick Cannon of Power 106-FM in Los Angeles: “We have to redirect resources” from law enforcement to schools and small businesses. “For too long, people have confused achieving public safety with putting more cops on the street.”
- Harris suggested abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On June 24, 2018, MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt asked if she agreed with a supporter’s “Abolish ICE” [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] placard. Harris said, “We’ve got to critically reexamine ICE,” and added, “we need to probably think about starting from scratch.” That surprised 77% of Biden-Harris voters.
- In 2019, GovTrack ranked Harris the most liberal/least conservative U.S. senator—left of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. GovTrack gave her a 0.00% conservative rating and Sanders a slightly more right-wing 0.02%. GovTrack self-censored its scorecard, but Internet Archives’ priceless Wayback Machine preserved it. Among participants, 75% were new to Harris as the Senate’s No. 1 leftist. Her co-sponsorship of the uberliberal Green New Deal escaped 73% of respondents.
- Harris disagrees that illegal aliens who invade America are criminals. “I know what a criminal looks like who’s committing a crime,” she told CBS News. “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.” Of those asked, 74% had not heard her statement.
So, why do so many know so little about so much of Harris’ record? The Media Research Center’s subjects chiefly rely on broadcast and cable TV news. The MRC says that its “examination of ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news coverage in the three weeks since Harris became the leading Democratic candidate (July 21 to Aug. 10) shows eight of these 10 issues received ZERO attention from these newscasts, while two others received only minor coverage.”
That’s right: Zero airtime—positive, negative, or neutral—on eight of the Democrat presidential nominee’s highly relevant positions. Two other policies earned cursory coverage: Harris endorsed slavery reparations and briefly visited the U.S.-Mexico border—once.
This is media malpractice.
Conservatives must use rallies, speeches, broadcast and digital ads, print, social media, emails, text messages, billboards, one-on-one discussions, dormitory debates, smoke signals, and carrier pigeons to educate Democrats and independents on what they do not know about Harris, starting with these 10 frightening facts.
Ignorance is bliss, but the truth will set America free.
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