The Patriot Post® · RNC: Opening Case Against Kamala Harris

By the Republican National Committee

HARRIS IS RADICALLY UNPOPULAR, AND LOSING SUPPORT FROM HER OWN ALLIES

• With the 2024 elections less than a year away, voters will soon have a chance to reject the Biden-Harris agenda and elect Republicans up and down the ballot.
• In her three years in office, it’s become clear that Harris is the most radical, far-left vice president in U.S. history.
  • From pushing an open-borders agenda to bragging about killing American energy, Kamala Harris has proven to be too extreme for most Americans.
  • Even in her previous role as senator, Harris gravitated to the far-left, including when she cosponsored Bernie Sanders’ $32 trillion socialist health care takeover.
• To avoid tough questions, Harris will awkwardly laugh or pivot to her love of Venn diagrams.
• Voters know that Harris is a failed vice president and has proven herself incompetent.
  • 57 percent of Americans disapprove of Kamala Harris, according to a recent Monmouth University poll.
  • An NBC News poll, from this past summer, found Harris to have the lowest favorability for a vice president in the history of its poll.
• Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi recently dodged answering whether Harris is Biden’s best choice for vice president.
• Even Harris’ own staff dislikes her.
  • Harris has a reputation for burning through staff – an issue that has repeatedly occurred both during her campaign for president and in her current role as vice president.
  • Staff have reported Harris’ office as an “abusive environment” and “dysfunctional,” where “people are thrown under the bus from the very top.”
  • Harris has been accused of being a “bully” who inflicts “constant amount of soul-destroying criticism” on her office staff.

AS “BORDER CZAR” HARRIS HAS FAILED TO SECURE THE BORDER

• Harris has failed to take the border crisis seriously.
• According to Harris, “the current administration’s immigration policies largely involve undoing the previous one’s work.”
  • By doing so, the Biden-Harris administration has opened the southern border to a flood of illegal immigration.
  • This past fiscal year set numerous records, with the crisis continuing to worsen. 
• “Border Czar” Harris has only visited the border once as vice president – traveling to a politically friendly district rather than the epicenter of the crisis.
  • Since Harris’ visit over two years ago, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered more than 6 million illegal immigrants.
  • Harris went nine months without holding a single immigration event.
• Harris has long opposed measures to increase border security and decrease illegal immigration.
  • As senator, Harris signed onto a letter arguing Title 42 violated federal law.
  • Harris has expressed support for sanctuary cities, and said “we need to probably think about starting from scratch” when referring to ICE.
  • Harris supports providing taxpayer-funded health insurance for illegal immigrants.

HARRIS HAS FOUGHT TO KILL AMERICAN ENERGY

• As vice president, Harris has bragged about her role in delivering “the most ambitious climate agenda in history.”
  • Harris recently attended the COP28 summit, where she touted an agreement to phase out fossil fuels.
  • Harris supported cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline, which killed 11,000 jobs.
  • Harris called the record-high gas prices seen under the Biden administration the “price to pay for democracy.”
• Harris’ commitment to killing American energy is not new, having long championed the far-left’s climate agenda.
  • During her campaign for president, Harris said “there’s no question, I’m in favor of banning fracking.”
    • Harris also expressed support for banning plastic straws and a national reduction in red meat consumption.
  • As senator, Kamala Harris cosponsored the radical $93 trillion Green New Deal with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which estimates show could kill up to 2 million jobs and cost an average family $165,000.
  • In 2017, Harris sponsored legislation to ban offshore drilling.
  • In her last days as California Attorney General, Harris sued the Obama Administration for allowing fracking off the California coast.

HARRIS HAS TAKEN THE SIDE OF CRIMINALS OVER LAW-ENFORCEMENT

• Harris supports defunding the police.
  • Harris endorsed Mandela Barnes, a “Defund the Police” activist who wanted to release half of Wisconsin’s inmates.
  • Harris said it is “outdated, it is wrongheaded thinking to think” that more police officers make communities safer.
  • Harris has repeatedly called to “reimagine” the role of police.
  • As senator, Harris praised L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s $150 million cut in police funding.
• When given the opportunity, Harris failed to prosecute criminals to the fullest extent of the law.
  • As San Francisco DA, Harris chose not to seek the death penalty against the murderer of a Hispanic San Francisco police officer, or against an illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member who shot a father and his two sons.
  • San Francisco police officers accused Harris of being slow to prosecute numerous murder suspects and said she regularly offered favorable plea deals to resolve cases out of trial.
  • In 2010, Harris’ DA office had to dismiss 1,000 drug cases due to a scandal in the police crime lab, with Harris taking “full responsibility” for the failure.
  • Harris’ DA office granted probation to a violent criminal who then went on to murder two men while released.
• Harris’ sympathy towards criminals has extended to promoting bail funds for now-convicted rapists and murderers.
  • Harris encouraged people to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bailed now-convicted rapists, assaulters, and murderers out of jail.
  • Harris said that we should have a “conversation” about whether felons like the Boston Marathon bomber should vote from prison.
  • Harris supported reforming California’s “three-strike rule” to allow nonviolent third-time offenders to avoid lifelong prison sentences.

HARRIS’ FOREIGN POLICY FUMBLES HAVE CAUSED CONFUSION AND OUTRAGE

• Harris has made numerous gaffes and incorrect statements that underscore her incompetency in foreign policy.
  • During a trip to the Demilitarized Zone that separates South and North Korea, Harris mistakenly praised the U.S. partnership with “the Republic of North Korea.”
  • When asked to explain the Russia-Ukraine War in layman’s terms, Harris said, “So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country.”
  • In a tweet that was later deleted, Harris said “The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance” – mistakenly implying that Ukraine is a member of NATO.
  • Kamala Harris claims to have met with leaders of “Beh-ran,” a country that does not exist – with the official transcript later revealing the country to be Bahrain.
  • Harris claimed the coronavirus pandemic “is no one’s fault,” despite it being China’s fault. 
• Harris has criticized Israel’s military response to the October 7^th massacre and sympathized with college protesters calling for the genocide of Jews.
  • Harris has reportedly pushed the Biden administration, including Biden himself, to show more concern for the damage in Gaza.
  • Harris has criticized Israel, saying that “Israel must do more to protect innocent civilians.”
    • Hamas, which uses the civilian population as human shields, has physically prevented people from evacuating to safer areas and continues to operate in tunnels underneath homes and hospitals in violation of international laws.
    • Israel has dropped leaflets in Gazan cities warning civilians to leave as well as sent mass text alerts urging civilians to flee to southern Gaza.
  • Harris said of college students protesting Israel’s right to defend itself, “I do understand their concerns and I will never attempt to stifle or silence young people from expressing their concerns.”
    • In 2021, Harris nodded as a student accused Israel of “ethnic genocide,” and replied “your truth cannot be suppressed.”
    • In 2023, Harris sat in silence and then praised an audience member who peddled Hamas propaganda and baselessly accused Israel and the U.S. of “genocide.”
    • College protesters have gone far beyond “expressing their concerns” and have called for violence against Jews.

Originally posted here.