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Hold the Harris Horses
An interviewer asked conservative talk radio host Larry Elder what advice he would give Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before he debated Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Elder warned Trump not to underestimate her.
Elder stated that Harris became San Francisco’s district attorney and served for eight years. In the California Attorney General election, Harris emerged victorious and secured reelection. She then ran for and won election to the United States Senate. “Every time she’s been on a ballot, she’s never lost.” Elder reminded the interviewer. Elder then noted that she ran in the Democratic presidential primary in 2020, but she dropped out early, so he doesn’t count that against her.
Elder’s points are valid, but he might be the only conservative that doesn’t brush her off based on her previous presidential run.
Harris came into the Democratic presidential primary with high expectations. In January 2019, 20,000 people attended her campaign’s launch. Her campaign centered on universal pre-k, debt-free college, tax cuts for working- and middle-class families, and Medicare for all, but her ideas were no different than the other candidates.
Harris struggled to stand out in an overcrowded primary field with her progressive policy platform, and a…