Kamala Harris steals another idea from Trump. Now she wants to build the wall – no joke.

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Kamala Harris steals another idea from Trump. Now she wants to build the wall – no joke.

I thought

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when I saw on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris

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But it wasn’t satire.

Rather, the Democratic presidential nominee has decided she supports one of former President Donald Trump’s signature ideas − and one despised by progressives.

Here’s how

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described Harris’ newfound ******* to build the wall: “It’s the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past ******** positions such as supporting 

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 and banning 

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 – proposals that aides say she now is against.”

We haven’t gotten any explanations, either, as Harris hasn’t done a single interview or press conference since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month.

Finally, the campaign has

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, but it won’t just be Harris. Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will be there, too. That makes it seem like Harris can’t handle an interview on her own and feels like a cop-out.

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

Just scheduling this one interview has

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. I’m guessing a lot of that turmoil has to do with the fact that Harris doesn’t have a coherent agenda for what her presidency would look like. (The rest of the angst is tied to Harris’

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Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, celebrate after she accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago.

From ‘un-*********’ to full steam ahead

Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. In 2019, when Harris was running in the Democratic presidential primary, the U.S. senator of California had some thoughts on the border wall.

Harris called it Trump’s “

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” then and “

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” in a 2018 social media post. She also posted in 2020 that “Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money

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Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024.

Seems pretty straightforward.

In addition, Harris is on the record during her first presidential run

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under her Medicare-for-all plan. She also said

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, if they hadn’t done anything else wrong.

Fast-forward to now.

Immigration has rocketed to one of the most important issues for voters – in no small part because the Biden-Harris administration oversaw chaos at the southern border amid record numbers of ******** crossings.

Even though Biden appointed Harris as border czar in 2021, she accomplished nothing to deter ******** migration across the border.

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

So she knows she’s weak on this issue, and now her campaign is trying to make Harris look like a tough border enforcer.

But that’s all hard to believe when one looks at her record the past four years and at what she has said.

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Last week at the Democratic National Convention,

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that would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to continue building the border wall. And she has

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I guess that settles that.

Harris can’t make up her mind on anything

The border wall is just the latest example of Harris backtracking on former stances. Her convictions seem about as deep as what the polls tell her to support.

Her few actual policy ideas since becoming the Democratic nominee, including price controls on groceries, are so terrible that

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by saying that price controls would never pass through Congress.

And the wall isn’t the only talking point Harris has stolen from Trump. Earlier this month, she

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. Problem is, Trump already had proposed that idea weeks earlier.

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

That means, of Harris’ limited proposals, one isn’t likely to go anywhere and two are copied from Trump, whom Democrats portray as the archenemy of democracy.

The general vagueness over what Harris actually believes and supports has led to confusion in the campaign over how to best leverage her running mate, Walz.

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, the “danger in sending him out to do big solo interviews is that he might not have a full command of where Harris is on every issue.”

Boy, I wonder why.

I have one question for Harris: “Who are you?”

I’d honestly like to know.

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