Kamala Harris steals one other concept from Trump. Now she needs to construct the wall – no joke.

I believed I was reading a headline from The Babylon Bee once I noticed on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris now wants to build the border wall.

However it wasn’t satire.

Relatively, the Democratic presidential nominee has determined she helps one among former President Donald Trump’s signature concepts − and one despised by progressives.

This is how left-leaning Axios described Harris’ newfound want to construct the wall: “It is the newest instance of Harris flip-flopping on her previous liberal positions corresponding to supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking – proposals that aides say she now’s in opposition to.”

We haven’t gotten any explanations, both, as Harris hasn’t carried out a single interview or press convention since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race final month.

Lastly, the marketing campaign has agreed to an interview with CNN on Thursday, but it surely will not simply be Harris. Her operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, can be there, too. That makes it appear to be Harris cannot deal with an interview on her personal and seems like a cop-out.

No there there: We need more than vibes to know what Kamala Harris is all about

Simply scheduling this one interview has caused a lot of consternation for Harris’ campaign. I’m guessing a whole lot of that turmoil has to do with the truth that Harris doesn’t have a coherent agenda for what her presidency would appear like. (The remainder of the angst is tied to Harris’ general incompetence on camera when off teleprompter).

From ‘un-American’ to full steam forward

Let’s take a fast journey down reminiscence lane. In 2019, when Harris was operating within the Democratic presidential major, the U.S. senator of California had some ideas on the border wall.

Harris known as it Trump’s “medieval vanity project” then and “un-American” in a 2018 social media put up. She additionally posted in 2020 that “Trump’s border wall is a whole waste of taxpayer cash and won’t make us any safer.”

Appears fairly easy.

As well as, Harris is on the report throughout her first presidential run vowing to decriminalize illegal border crossings and offering undocumented immigrants health care underneath her Medicare-for-all plan. She additionally mentioned she wouldn’t deport immigrants here illegally, in the event that they hadn’t carried out the rest incorrect.

Quick-forward to now.

Immigration has rocketed to one of the most important issues for voters – in no small half as a result of the Biden-Harris administration oversaw chaos on the southern border amid report numbers of unlawful crossings.

Even though Biden appointed Harris as border czar in 2021, she achieved nothing to discourage unlawful migration throughout the border.

You possibly can’t say that: It’s no laughing matter. Humorless scolds on the left want to silence your ‘offensive’ views.

So she is aware of she’s weak on this concern, and now her marketing campaign is attempting to make Harris appear like a troublesome border enforcer.

However that’s all exhausting to imagine when one appears to be like at her report the previous 4 years and at what she has mentioned.

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Final week on the Democratic Nationwide Conference, Harris pledged to sign a bipartisan Senate bill that will spend lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to proceed constructing the border wall. And he or she has released a campaign ad that features the wall several times.

I assume that settles that.

Harris cannot make up her thoughts on something

The border wall is simply the newest instance of Harris backtracking on former stances. Her convictions appear about as deep as what the polls inform her to assist.

Her few precise coverage concepts since turning into the Democratic nominee, including price controls on groceries, are so horrible that Harris’ fellow Democrats are downplaying the idea by saying that worth controls would by no means go via Congress.

And the wall isn’t the one speaking level Harris has stolen from Trump. Earlier this month, she pledged no taxes on tipped wages. Downside is, Trump already had proposed that concept weeks earlier.

Fudging the details: From IVF to his military service, Walz is a bit of a fabulist. Can’t we get the truth?

Which means, of Harris’ restricted proposals, one isn’t more likely to go wherever and two are copied from Trump, whom Democrats painting because the archenemy of democracy.

The overall vagueness over what Harris truly believes and helps has led to confusion within the marketing campaign over how you can greatest leverage her operating mate, Walz.

As Politico reports, the “hazard in sending him out to do large solo interviews is that he may not have a full command of the place Harris is on each concern.”

Boy, I ponder why.

I’ve one query for Harris: “Who’re you?”

I’d truthfully wish to know.

Ingrid Jacques is a columnist at USA TODAY. Contact her at ijacques@usatoday.com or on X, previously Twitter: @Ingrid_Jacques

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