Every four
years, U.S. presidential candidates compete in a series of state contests to
gain their party’s nomination. The political process is one of the most complex
and expensive in the world. No one can deny that the US system for choosing a
President is arduous and prolonged, running candidates through lower office
contests and debates, requiring years on the national stage, hunts for convention
delegates’ support, overcoming lies and truth from the opposition, to attain a
nomination for President.
Kamala
Harris’s likely capture of the nomination at the upcoming Democratic convention
in August will not be anywhere as arduous as this. There was never any
significant vetting. She was chosen by Joe Biden to be his running mate in
2020, and when he decided to drop out of the presidential race this year, he
appears to have given Ms. Harris advance word of both his withdrawal
announcement and his intention to name her as his successor.
1- This was
Biden’s retribution against those who forced him out of the 2024 presidential
election, depriving the Democratic power brokers of their opportunity to select
the Party’s new leader.
2- By
fostering the Harris bandwagon, he foisted her upon the Democratic Party
and—without a primary—eliminated its opportunity to demonstrate the range of
its views as a political party. Now, without an honest contest, all Democrats
will have to accept Harris’s views and priorities, and many with dissenting
views will go elsewhere in the coming election. Something similar will happen
in the Republican Party, of course, but there at least Trump won a majority of
the delegates in a democratic process.
3- The Democratic Convention is a few weeks away, and the Party will have a lot of mopping up to do. This is a candidate who has never run nationally on her own, or developed policy positions on national and foreign policy issues she will face in a presidential campaign. Yet, every Democratic politician running this year will have to salute her platform.
4- Early in
her Vice Presidency, her staff began leaving, this is quite unusual, because
the Vice President’s office is more involved in overall administration policy
than any place in government except the White House itself. But after three
years, only four of the original 47 were still working for her. There is
something seriously amiss, then, in her management style.
Read more: 6 reasons why Kamala Harris is the worst choice for the presidential nomination
5- And then
there are her policies: purely left-Californian: opposition to fossil fuels and
fracking, supporting Medicare for all, taxpayer funded health care for illegal
immigrants, bail funding for rioters, and defunding the police, that have
caused San Francisco to lose its famous luster. On the key issue of illegal
immigration, Harris was supposed to be the Administration’s key senior policy
official. She described her role as seeking the “root causes,” but never
identified any.
6- At last, Biden believed he deserved to be president. He views the presidency as the capstone on his decades-long career in public service. Nevertheless, Biden’s Revenge was costly to his party, and to the country at large.
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