Former President Barack Obamaâs chief campaign strategist David Axelrod said on Friday that Vice President Kamala Harrisâ far-left 2020 presidential campaign was inauthentic, as she is actually a moderate.
Harris backed many left-wing policies during her 2020 campaign, such as a fracking ban, mandatory federal gun buybacks and the abolition of private health insurance, but the vice president has reversed some of her stances since launching her 2024 campaign. Axelrod, on âInside Politics With Dana Bash,â said Harrisâ 2020 campaign failed because she was inauthentic and that her 2024 campaign is more aligned with her true beliefs.
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âShe wasnât successful in 2020. And I donât think she was a very good candidate in 2020. She didnât make it to 2020, actually. Because this is who she is, I think the way sheâs running now. She spent her career as a prosecutor, as an attorney general. I think sheâs a center-left Democrat,â Axelrod told host Dana Bash. âI think she has obviously a lot of experience on the issue of crime. In many ways, the themes that you hear here reflect who she is and I donât think she ran on, you know, she basically shoved a bunch of her life, or her advisors did, away four years ago.â
âOne thing about presidential Politics, Dana, is authenticity is the coin of the realm. If youâre not organic with the words youâre speaking, if youâre not really invested in the words youâre speaking, they donât reflect who you really are, people will ultimately find out,â he added. âAnd so, right now, she seems like a candidate whoâs in sync with her message.â
Harris also praised defunding the police in June 2020, about two months before joining President Joe Bidenâs 2020 ticket.
The vice president also advanced left-wing legislation during her time as a senator, including government workforce diversity, environmental justice, eviction halts and work permits for certain illegally present migrants. Harris, in 2018, likened Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the Ku Klux Klan and suggested that the entire agency should be abolished and remade âfrom scratch.â
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