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Fox News “The Five” co-host Jesse Watters tore into the mainstream media for its blatant pro-Democrat bias for recasting Vice President Kamala Harris as presidential material after portraying her as unpopular and even a potential drag on President Joe Biden’s reelection bid.
During a segment on Thursday, Watters agreed with the panel’s assessment that Harris’ race against former President Donald Trump will be much closer than it should be, but only because of media bias in favor of the VP.
“It’s going to be close. And if we had a fair press, this would be a landslide. Democrats would never win another national election again if we had a fair press. Three months before the election, this woman comes out, and she has a record that says I want to get rid of ICE, private health care, guns, and then says, actually, I don’t believe any of that,” he said.
“And it’s like Trump coming out tomorrow and saying we are not going to do the wall, and we are going to raise taxes. What? No! And so the media usually would be curious. Why? What happened here? No. They are scrubbing the internet of this stuff. And then they are censoring pictures of Donald Trump in searches for Donald Trump. And the Democratic Party doesn’t even care,” he added.
WATCH:
An old video featuring then-San Francisco District Attorney Harris has gone viral again, which should give some voters pause.
During a Google-sponsored event in 2010, Harris—once rated the Senate’s most far-left member—readily admitted she was a “radical.”
“I read that at the Republican Convention. He [opponent] called me a radical,” Harris said. “So I guess that’s one difference between us.”
“And, yeah, I am radical,” she said. “I do believe that we need to get radical, about what we are doing, and take it seriously.”
WATCH:
KAMALA: “Yeah, I am a radical.” pic.twitter.com/LkfMW9jKUF
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 29, 2024
Harris was the District Attorney of San Francisco from January 8, 2004, to January 3, 2011. She then became a U.S. senator from January 3, 2017, to January 18, 2021. In 2019, she was the most far-left senator, surpassing socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT), according to GovTrack’s scorecard.
Now, however, Harris has appeared to change her position on many issues that were important to her and a majority of Democratic voters during her unsuccessful 2020 presidential bid in what critics say is an effort to repackage her in a desperate bid to appeal to more voters now that she’s the heir apparent to the 2024 nomination.
Specifically, as reported by The New York Times, Harris stood on the far left of many issues, including energy, climate, firearms, and immigration. But now her campaign is attempting to downplay those stances and present her as much more moderate even as Republican operatives dig up a plethora of old interviews and video clips showing her true colors.
For instance, Republican Dave McCormick, who is running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, highlighted Harris’s controversial positions with a powerful montage. The video showcased Harris endorsing a range of extreme ideas, from open borders to federal firearm confiscation through a euphemistically termed “mandatory buyback” program.
McCormick’s ad also featured clips of Harris supporting various controversial policies, including the Green New Deal, a ban on fracking and offshore drilling, single-payer health insurance, voting rights for violent felons, and an authoritarian climate policy aimed at reducing red meat consumption.
Republican strategists like Brad Todd in Pennsylvania have already begun seizing on the vice president’s far-left history; she was once considered the most ‘progressive’ member of the U.S. Senate before she accepted Joe Biden’s offer to be his running mate after dropping out of the 2020 Democratic primaries very early.
“The archive is deep,” Todd said, according to the Times. “We will run out of time before we run out of video clips of Kamala Harris saying wacky California liberal things. I’m just not sure that the rest of this campaign includes much besides that.”
