The Patriot Post® · In Brief: What Kamala Harris Didn't Say
Our Douglas Andrews thoroughly covered](https://patriotpost.us/articles/109614-kamala-harris-remakes-herself-2024-08-23) Kamala Harris’s nomination speech at the Democratic National Convention. National Review’s Jim Geraghty made some noteworthy observations.
Conservatives likely hated the substance, but that was probably about as good a performance as Kamala Harris can give. I know a lot of you out there want to hear that it stunk and she was terrible, but Harris was poised and self-assured, confidently and competently delivering a well-crafted speech.
With that said, her remarks were highly selective in which issues they addressed. Words that never appeared in Harris’s acceptance speech include “inflation,” “energy,” “gas,” “oil,” “trade,” “fentanyl,” “addiction,” “deficit,” “illegal” (whether in reference to immigrants or anything else), “Constitution,” “Covid,” “pandemic,” “vaccine,” “infrastructure,” “roads,” “bridges,” “green” (whether in reference to the “green new deal,” or in any other context), “affirmative action,” “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” “domestic” (whether in reference to terrorism or in any other context), “antisemitism,” “Afghanistan,” “Taliban,” “Taiwan,” “Uyghur,” “Mexico,” “Houthi,” “Hezbollah,” “nuclear weapons,” “transgender,” “nonbinary,” “campus,” “university,” “black,” “United Nations,” “diplomacy,” “human rights,” “migrant,” “asylum,” “library,” “minimum wage,” “income inequality,” “unemployment,” “poverty,” “homeless,” “religion,” “Christian,” “Jew” or “Jewish,” “environment,” and “welfare.”
This was a terrific speech for a challenger running against the failed record of President Biden.
That, Geraghty says, makes it easy for Donald Trump to “recognize the counterpunch.”
You’re the current vice president. Where have you been? Why haven’t you done any of that for the past four years? Why can’t you do any of that now? What is it that you want to do that Joe Biden won’t let you do?