Mainstream media coverage of sen.Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Who portrayed herself as a moderate, is a “joke, of course,” Newanda Post columnist Miranda Devine said Saturday.
Appearing on “Fox & Friends Weekend”, Devine host Jedediah told Bila that it’s all part of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign strategy.
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“It’s just a ploy to get them to win the election, because of course they know that this new brand of socialist-progressive democrat is unpalatable to the voters,” she said. “That, well, you know, [it’s] moderate Joe and moderate Kamala, even though they are proving to be the most progressive candidate in the Senate. “
Democratic presidential candidate former vice president Joe Biden and his running mate sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Arrive to speak at a news conference at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, August 12, 2020. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)
The New York Times, in its tweet announcing that Biden Harris chose to be his running mate, marked the California junior senator as a “pragmatic mother.”
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Devine disagrees.
“She’s the most progressive senator – even more so than Bernie Sanders,” she said. “She’s in favor of abortion for the long term. She’s in favor of criminalizing climate skeptics, or denying it, so to speak. She’s criminalizing gun manufacturers. She’s in favor of providing illegal immigrants with free health care. There’s no problem you can think about. that she has taken the most extreme progressive position. “
The columnist disputes Harris, who made an unsuccessful bid for the nomination, does not necessarily believe in her positions, but does what is politically advantageous.
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“I think most voters realize that Joe Biden is not everything and that Kamala Harris is likely to become president before the end of his first term,” she said. “If he wins.”
When asked if there is a difference between Harris and liberal politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., and sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Devine called Harris a “chameleon.”
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“AOC and Elizabeth Warren, whatever you say about them, they are real. They are authentically liberal. I think with Kamala Harris, she will be what she needs to be at the time and she is incredibly ambitious, if I may say so. that word. “Her eye is on the price, that’s Joe Biden’s job.”
