The DNC's Absurd Reinvention of Kamala Harris

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg as they react to Kamala Harris accepting the Democratic nomination on Thursday night. They examine her promise to be a president who will always put country over party, her vow to create an economy of opportunity, and her approach to the Middle East and other national security issues.

First, they note how the Harris campaign is trying to replay the Obama strategy of staying vague on policy and denouncing the intense political rancor and division that she has been aggressively inflaming for the past eight years. The problem for Harris is that her record of far-left policies and partisan rhetoric is far more extensive than Obama's was in 2008.

Next, they contrast Kamala's call for an "economic opportunity" agenda with her many earlier statements about the need for equity and "equal outcomes." They also mention her disingenuous stance on immigration and the border crisis and explain how one aspect of Thursday's convention story is a perfect metaphor for the left's rhetoric vs. the left's actions.

Finally, they dig into Harris speaking on the Middle East crisis, as she delivered the most intense administration denunciation of the Hamas terrorist attacks in months - and then turned around and insisted there needs to be a Palestinian state.

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0:30.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and
0:37.8	Jim Garrity of National Review. Three Martini's coming up.
0:41.6	Hey, really glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini lunch.
0:48.0	Jim joins us from Chicago before thankfully finding a flight home today.
0:53.0	Hopefully it's easier to get home from Chicago
0:54.6	than it was from Milwaukee the day that that crowd strike
0:57.3	thing happened, Jim, not to jinx you.
0:59.4	Anyway, the Democratic National Convention
1:02.0	is in the books, and I guess in some ways
1:03.8	Jim conservative should be flattered at how much the Democrats tried to co-opt
1:07.8	Republican and conservative themes throughout the week. Unlike eight years ago at the Hillary Convention in
1:13.5	Philadelphia they remembered to bring their American flags. So that was nice. They've
1:17.8	been dressed in red, white, and blue. Kamala's talking tough on national
1:21.0	security, which we'll get to in a minute.
1:23.0	But kind of a theme here about what Kamala wants the American people to believe about her
1:27.2	and what we know the Kamala Harris record to actually be.
1:31.0	So this first one, I think Jim is a tribute to the fact that the Obama people, Pluff and others are pretty much running her campaign now.
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