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Abortion at the center of her agenda: Kamala Harris will be the most radical abortion advocate in American political history
The nation is still working through the massive political events of the last 48 hours or so, but it has become increasingly clear that the Democratic Party is coalescing around Vice President Kamala Harris as its 2024 presidential nominee. The entire effort looks remarkably orchestrated, and there are clear signs that the Harris campaign was ready to move as soon as President Joe Biden finally withdrew from the race. It all took place as an American version of a palace coup. Democratic leaders and their funders decided that the gig was up with Biden. The conspiracy to deny his loss of mental acuity was failing. It was time to pull the emergency switch and, as quick as two tweets, the Biden campaign was over and the Harris campaign was underway.
There will surely be some unexpected developments along the way, but the closing of the Democratic ranks around Harris has to be one of the most interesting political moves of our times. The Democrats have coalesced around a candidate who has giant liabilities and who, you may remember, started her campaign for the 2020 nomination only to exit the race without earning a single delegate. But, with the Democrats facing reality, they must have realized that there was no way around anointing Harris, given the fact that they have continuously bragged that she is the first African American and Asian American woman to serve as vice president. Once Biden endorsed her, the ball started rolling quickly. It would take something huge to deny her the 2024 nomination of the Democratic Party.
But there are massive questions that remain. Are the other major Democrats, mostly governors, who see themselves as future presidents, willing to see Harris lose the 2024 election and thus leave an open field for 2028? Time may tell.
In the meantime, Americans have to face the reality that Vice President Harris is the likely nominee. The Democrats will be led by a candidate considerably to the left of President Biden and one who will be the most pro-abortion presidential nominee in American history.
Shortly after the Dobbs decision reversing Roe was handed down by the Supreme Court, Biden appointed Harris to run point on the abortion issue for his administration. As the attorney general of California and as a U.S. senator, Harris was a stalwart defender of abortion. In the Senate, she pushed an abortion bill that was modeled after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and would allow federal courts to review any state restrictions on abortion, a process known as preclearance. Harris went straight after the ability of the states to protect unborn life.
In July 2019, she went after Biden in a Democratic debate, accusing him of harming poor women through his historic support for the Hyde Amendment, which prevents most taxpayer monies from paying for abortions, asking, “Do you now say that you have evolved and regret that?” Faced with an ultimatum and determined to gain the nomination, Biden obediently evolved and repented of ever supporting the Hyde Amendment. Usually, that kind of confrontation (not to mention her own disastrous campaign) would have doomed Harris’ chance to be Biden’s running mate—but Biden asked her anyway.
As a senator, Harris had gone after Brett Kavanaugh on abortion rights in his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, all orchestrated for the television cameras. As Biden’s vice president, she affirmed the administration line that their goal, after Dobbs, was to codify Roe v. Wade by federal legislation. But that was never honest. There is no way that the Biden administration, now driven by abortion rights defenders, would ever stop at Roe. The current push is for legislating abortion rights without any restrictions at all. Any argument to the contrary is dishonest.
When it comes to Harris, the proof is the fact that when Margaret Brennan of CBS News’ Face the Nation asked her to offer any abortion restriction she would support, Harris had no answer. None. She didn’t even answer the question.
In March, the vice president made a major statement by touring a Planned Parenthood facility that performs abortions in Minnesota. That state, we should note, offers no real restrictions on abortion through all three trimesters. At the Planned Parenthood site, Harris said, “Right now, in our country, we are facing a very serious health crisis.” In her Orwellian doublespeak, she dared to speak of a death clinic for the unborn as an answer to “a very serious health crisis.” As the media celebrated, this was the first-ever visit of a president or a vice president to an abortion center. Harris is the most eager advocate of the killing of the unborn to run on a national ticket. Now, she intends to top the Democratic ticket.
The media are falling all over themselves to anoint Kamala Harris the next president of the United States. There are countless reasons to see a Harris presidency as a real threat. But the greatest threat of Kamala Harris and her candidacy may be a threat to future Americans in the womb. That needs to be understood quickly and urgently.
This article originally appeared at WORLD Opinions on July 23, 2024.
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Exit, stage left: In a stunning development President Biden leaves the race, but huge questions loom
President Joe Biden’s sudden announcement that he is leaving the 2024 presidential race seemed inevitable, but the reality of his statement, coming just after the Sunday news programs were broadcast, hit like a political bomb. Biden’s withdrawal represents a stunning reset of American political history.
In his statement, Biden addressed “my fellow Americans” and then boasted of political achievements before, at the end of the third paragraph, declaring, “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”
The sense of inevitability had been building for weeks, and the concern can be traced to Biden’s disastrous performance in the June 27 debate with former President Donald Trump. Ironically, the Biden campaign had pushed for the early debate with Trump, thinking it would boost Biden’s campaign. Instead, Biden’s collapse was catastrophic. In retrospect, it is hard to imagine how any candidacy could continue after such a debacle. Adding to Biden’s problem, reports of mental lapses due to age started coming in an avalanche, with major Democratic figures and international leaders adding to the mounting evidence. Every news broadcast became a Biden senility watch and then, just as Biden tried to energize his failing campaign, he came down with COVID-19 and was seen walking down the lower stairs from Air Force One, looking like a beaten man. He was.
His party began to abandon him, calling for him to withdraw. Donors cut off the money, threatening downline Democrats and assuring the doom of Democratic hopes to hold the Senate and recapture the House. One by one, the public statements came. Party grandees kept calling on Biden to preserve his place in history and avoid crashing his party, packaged in the call to “pass the torch” to a new generation. Biden kept insisting that he was in the race to stay, which he was until he wasn’t.
This is one of those amazing moments that will reset American history. I can remember watching President Lyndon Johnson speak to the nation in a televised address on Vietnam and then, astoundingly, announce that he would not seek or accept the 1968 Democratic nomination. As we watched together in the living room, my dad looked me in the eye and told me I would never forget watching that happen. He was right.
But Johnson made that announcement on March 31, 1968. President Harry Truman shocked the nation, and his Democratic Party, by making the same kind of announcement. But Truman made that news on March 29, 1952. Joe Biden withdrew from the race on July 21—one month before the Democratic National Convention and only about 100 days from the general election. Nothing like this has ever happened. The big issue now—and the total obsession of both parties—is what Democratic Party names will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot. At this point, little else matters.
On that score, Biden also leaned in on Sunday by a second post on X in which he addressed “my fellow Democrats,” offering his “full support and endorsement” for Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s 2024 nominee for president.
But this isn’t March—it’s late July—and even as Harris appears to have the advantage of the inside game, no one knows if that will be enough. Face the facts here: An open slot at the top of the presidential ticket at this point in an election cycle has never happened before and will likely never happen again. Are rivals to Harris going to just sit it out?
Actually, they might. The many Democrats with presidential aspirations have to know that, even as the prize looks tantalizing, the odds are not good. Truman and Johnson made their announcements in March, and the Democratic Party was able to go through a legitimate nomination process. In both cases, the party went on to face failure on Election Day. Giving Harris the opportunity is clearly the path of least resistance. Nominating someone other than the vice president would be seen for what it is—sidelining the African-American woman who has the inside track, the easiest path to using about $100 million in campaign funds, and now the unqualified endorsement of Biden. Harris is likely to choose a white male politician in a swing state (someone like Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania or Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona) to balance the ticket.
What will this mean for Nov. 5? Frankly, it’s hard to imagine the nation being excited about a Kamala Harris presidency. Her campaign in the 2020 cycle ended as an embarrassment, but Biden chose her and, as his post on Sunday indicated, he stands by her now.
The bottom line as Biden departs the race is that he has now done what conservatives predicted all along. He will go down in history as the man who made the leftward leap of the Democratic Party possible. He was elected as good old Joe from Scranton, the working man’s Democratic candidate. He had played that role (awkwardly and often embarrassingly) for more than three decades in the Senate. He then served as Barack Obama’s vice president, only to be snubbed after eight years of loyal service when Obama pushed him out of the way and supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race. He fought back in 2020 and gained the nomination as the only hope for Democrats to unite the party, but all along the Democrats assured themselves that Biden would be the bridge to a far more ideologically liberal party.
Understand clearly that the Democratic Party is going to lurch far to the left with this generational shift. With Biden out of the way, it will be full steam ahead. And Biden bears responsibility for making it all happen. The Democratic left had one final role for Biden to play, and he played it. They finally decided that he played it for too long, and so the gig is up. Brace yourselves for what is to come.
And watch the parable unfold as President Joe Biden rather bitterly leaves the political stage. Exit, stage left.
This article was originally published at WORLD Opinions on July 21, 2024.
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