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Vice President Kamala Harris' Democratic National Convention, CNN interview, and ABC News debate performance revealed an unmistakable fact: Harris needs to fool voters to get elected.
The de facto incumbent claims the change mantle.
She rules America while blaming former President Donald Trump for America's woes. She simultaneously supports and opposes various views and policies.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Harris, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz keep repeating factually false and debunked statements.
These are not speech or grammar errors. Democrats are deliberately lying.
This 2024 election handbook lists some 50 overt Democrat lies and one absolute truth. Democrats attack Trump for comments he never uttered and for which no record exists.
Trump never praised neo-Nazi Charlottesville protesters. He explicitly condemned them.
His "very fine people on both sides" comment referenced the Confederate monument debate.
He told Jan. 6 supporters to march "peacefully." Neither he or any Jan. 6 protesters were charged with insurrection.
He never advocated for a "bloodbath" if he loses the election. He referenced an economic bloodbath from bad policies.
He never called America's military "losers and suckers" or told Americans to drink bleach.
Democrats lie about Trump's policy views.
Trump never supported national bans on abortion or in vitro fertilization. He favors leaving abortion to states.
Trump advocates federally funding IVF.
Every GOP presidential nominee is accused of plotting Social Security cuts. Trump explicitly declared Social Security cuts off the table.
Democrats link Trump to the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 despite his publicly opposing their blueprint.
Democrats lie about Trump's record.
Democrats did not inherit a wrecked economy or border. Inflation was 1.4% when Trump left office.
After Biden-Harris policies were rammed through, inflation spiked to 9.1%. Illegal immigration plummeted after Trump's border crackdown.
Biden reversed Trump's Remain in Mexico policy, causing millions of illegal southern border crossings.
Harris also falsely characterizes herself.
Her pro-business platitudes contradict her climate change and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies that hampered big businesses and destroyed small businesses. She pays lip service to Israel while demanding an immediate Gaza cease-fire and two-state solution that would threaten Israel's existence.
Harris refused to visit the border and denied being border czar. She somehow supports border security and sanctuary cities.
Harris currently claims to be pro-fracking while supporting the Green New Deal that calls for banning fracking.
She claims to support the Second Amendment while the Biden-Harris administration executively gutted it.
Her anti-crime image belies her policies encouraging violent crime. Her Minnesota Freedom Fund donations helped release violent George Floyd rioters.
She labels herself pro-gay rights and Trump anti-gay, yet she helped fund Iran's mullahs and proxies Hamas and Hezbollah. Islamist groups murder LGBTQ people.
She tacks left in Democrat primaries while feigning moderacy to win a general election. Telling voters what she thinks they want to hear is lying, not "evolving."
Vice presidential nominee Walz claimed combat experience. He abandoned his unit to avoid deployment.
Walz never led a championship football team. The volunteer assistant was never a head coach.
Harris and Walz claim to be pro-freedom, but support only freedoms they agree with. They enacted harsh COVID-19 lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and mask mandates.
Harris backed severe restrictions on red meat and tobacco. The Biden-Harris administration supports oil and gasoline restrictions while forcing electric vehicle mandates on businesses.
The administration coerced social media companies into censoring those dissenting from administration policies.
President Joe Biden's apparent cognitive decline and Hunter Biden's laptop were real. Jussie Smollett's story was fake.
Partisan Democrats censored these true news stories.
Harris' personal story leaves out the four years she lived in Canada.
She seems to have plagiarized the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 Playboy "fweedom" interview.
She has said she smoked marijuana in college while listening to Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre despite their debut albums coming out years later. She imprisoned marijuana users.
Democrats claim to champion "democracy" while spying on journalists and political opponents, weaponizing government agencies, trying to pack courts and abolish the filibuster, illegally leaking Trump's tax returns, attempting to imprison Trump, jailing critics and dissenters, trying to remove Trump from ballots, getting third-party candidates removed from state ballots, denying Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Secret Service protection, and providing shoddy Secret Service protection to Trump, nearly getting him assassinated.
Beyond these lies, Harris offered one important truth: "My values have not changed."
Her values include pursuing power at all costs and crushing anyone in the way. Harris befriended powerful men, from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown to Biden.
Leftist Harris supporters' one truth is the ends justify the means. They must be defeated.
Eric Golub is a comedian, author and retired stockbrokerage and oil professional living in Los Angeles. His interests include football, politics, Judaism, the stock market, and Angela Lansbury's "Murder, She Wrote." He has written for the Jewish Journal, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart's Big Hollywood. Read more of Eric Golub's reports — here.
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