Moms know a non-answer when they hear one — and we heard a lot of them when Kamala Harris and Tim Walz finally sat down for an interview (with CNN) for the first time since being handed the Democratic Party nomination.
When asked point-blank why voters should trust her to handle serious issues that have festered during the Biden-Harris administration, including inflation and the border crisis, Harris dissembled and evaded.
Even while expressing sympathy for families devastated by sky-high prices for groceries and gas, violent crime in their communities, and a drug-overdose epidemic fueled by fentanyl coming across America’s porous southern border, Harris could not bring herself to acknowledge her own role in creating these problems, or in failing to address them over the past four years.
Even liberal economists such as Larry Summers — who served as Bill Clinton’s secretary of the treasury and oversaw Barack Obama’s National Economic Council — have admitted that prices have increased over 20% under Biden and Harris because of trillions of dollars in deficit spending, which includes trillions that only passed Congress because Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate.
Nor is there any doubt that Harris’ fingerprints are all over the border crisis.
One of her first assignments as vice president was to serve as the administration’s "border czar." Yet Harris had no defense when confronted with the fact that the Biden-Harris regime did nothing for three years while illegal immigrants entered the country in what can only be described as record-shattering numbers.
The best she could muster was a reference to a CYA border bill that Democrats cobbled together once it became clear that voters were going to hold them accountable for their open-borders policies.
Time and again, Harris dodged CNN host Dana Bash’s efforts to get straight answers for the American people.
Any mom who has ever tried to get a kid to own up to breaking a lamp or fighting with their siblings could easily sympathize with Bash as she tried to get Harris to take responsibility for her own record.
It didn’t get any better when Bash took Harris to task for her many policy flip-flops.
Without offering any detail or rationale, Harris meekly asserted that her "values have not changed," even though her stated policy positions have done a 180.
Walz, for his part, played the role of a complicit sibling doing his best not to get his sister in any worse trouble, occasionally attempting to divert attention from specifics but otherwise keeping quiet.
It was quite a changeup from the combative Walz who has ridiculed his opponents as "weird" despite his own record of supporting a laundry list of genuinely bizarre policies.
The Minnesota governor was likely just grateful that he didn’t have to spend any time deflecting from that record.
As governor of Minnesota, Walz presided over the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots and burning of Minnesota cites in 2020, then blamed "society" for the destruction.
He signed a law allowing sex change surgeries for children without the consent of their parents, and allowing the state to take custody away from parents who objected to the mutilation of their children.
He signed legislation mandating the placement of tampon machines in the bathrooms of 6th through 12th grade. He even set up a "snitch line" encouraging Minnesotans to tattle on their neighbors for failing to rigorously abide by his administration’s draconian COVID-19 lockdowns.
Americans of all political persuasions have been eagerly awaiting this recent interview, which offered the first real opportunity of this abbreviated campaign to get some straight answers from a ticket that we know distressingly little about. Harris and Walz let us down badly.
Moms are used to hearing non-answers from children. We expect — and deserve — better from people who are asking us to entrust them to lead our nation.
Kimberly Fletcher is the founder, president, and CEO of Moms For America, a national, non-profit 501c3 educational corporation rooted in the principles of liberty and virtue our nation was founded on, particularly through the women and mothers of America. Read Kimberly Fletcher's reports — More Here.
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