If you’re wondering why Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t taken serious questions from the media in the three weeks since she became the de facto Democratic nominee for president, we need only look back to the not-too-distant past.
Remember 2020? Or, more specifically, the election cycle that culminated that year, way back in early 2019.
In the first debate, Harris defeated one of her opponents — her future boss, President Joe Biden — by implicitly calling him a racist for his willingness to work with Dixiecrat dinosaurs to abolish school busing bill and then touted it as “racist” during the campaign.
That would almost certainly give her a spot in the race and catapult her into the front-runner’s seat. Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard then took apart Harris, noting that Harris had talked rather casually about her marijuana use in college, while at the same time Instead she used her position as prosecutor to put people in jail.
Kamala Harris refused to release documents that could free innocent prisoners until a court forced her to do so. ~Tulsi Gabbard pic.twitter.com/kYZd8vuWWQ
— Advocate for good governance (@governance_101) August 10, 2024
While Kamala’s campaign went through some ups and downs after that, it was basically over from that point on. Harris will drop out just before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, her campaign ending in such a dumpster fire that it made Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like nothing more than a fire.
Thankfully, she was rescued from political oblivion by the stroke of genius of the running mate nomination. But wait — let’s go back to that marijuana incident in February 2019. As The New York Times noted at the time, this came during an interview with the syndicated radio show “The Breakfast Club,” in which, depending on your perspective, she might have said she enjoyed listening to Snoop Dogg and Tupac , while she threw stones.
The problem: Neither had released a debut album before she graduated college.
The Times insisted that the fuller context of the interview made the claim misinformation, noting that the host “asked Ms. Harris more broadly about her musical views, a key part of the exchange that made it unclear Ms. Harris is answering the question of whose.”
Okay, then. Fast forward to the NAACP’s virtual convention in September 2020, and Harris appeared via video conference — remember those diaper-wearing, Zoom meeting days? –an event moderated by CNN’s Angela Rye. Rye asked her who was the best rapper today.
“Tupac,” Harris replied.
Well, there is one small problem. If you don’t follow hippie music, Tupac is a great rapper, but Was is the key element here; in addition to not releasing any albums until Harris graduated from college, he also died 24 years before Harris ran for president, leaving his car in Las Vegas after his heavyweight boxing match with Mike Tyson Ambushed, but not yet detected.
“He’s dead!” Ley was skeptical at first, but then realized how that might make Kamala look and humorously corrected himself: “He’s alive. He’s still alive.”
“I do it all the time,” Harris said with a laugh.
“Listen, girls on the West Coast think Tupac is alive. I’m with you.
If you need to see a top politician struggle for more than 40 seconds to find a rapper—any sentient rapper—who she likes she can name, well, here you go:
Angela Rye was shocked to find out she stumped Kamala Harris with her “Best Rapper of Our Time” question. Harris initially chose Tupac, and Rye had to remind Harris that Tupac died nearly 25 years ago:
Angela Rai: “The best rapper alive?”
Kamala Harris (2020): “Tupac”
Angela Ley: “He’s dead.”
Kamala… pic.twitter.com/DhXlV5jPzC— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) August 8, 2024
“That shouldn’t be a problem!” Rye said. Yeah, well, that’s what you get when you’re stupid and try to pretend you’re frustrated with rap but can only name two or three rappers out of thin air.
The most we get here is some rappers she likes, “who I won’t mention right now because they should stay in their own lane.”
It’s unclear who these people are, but there’s speculation she might be talking about Kanye West here, since it’s 2020 and he’s engaging in politics in a conservative way at the time .
But when Rye asked her about some rappers, she said, “Keep going, Angela. Keep going.
Let’s be clear, this is still Kamala Harris. She’s not freed from the burden of her past, she just knows that if she keeps her mouth shut long enough, the media might keep Kamalamanya in the dark long enough for her to be in the middle of a debate filled with gaffes. Having survived two press conferences where she froze like a computer with a broken hard drive, maybe there was a problem. Heck, she might not even need to create any policies.
But make no mistake: Democrats think this is someone capable of running the country. Joe Biden is 81 years old.
What’s her excuse?
This article originally appeared in Western Daily News.
