JD Vance Hits Kamala Harris for Stealing Trump's Policies

This is the wrong line of attack. Completely, utterly wrong.

If you say she's stealing Trump's policies, that mean she is going to implement the policies people want. Which is much more important to them than squabbling about who gets credit.

Trump did the same thing with DeSantis. I mean, 1, I don't know if "enforce the border" is exactly a new policy position, and 2, what does it matter who originated a policy if it's a good idea? Do we shy away from borrowing Reagan's ideas of low tax/low regulation and peace through strength because he thought of them (or, at least, was the first major adopter)?

The real attack should be that Kamala Harris is lying. She knows her actual policies are unpopular, so she's lying about them so she can get elected and impose them on an unwilling population.

She's not stealing the policy. She's lying about the policy. She has absolutely no intention of implementing "Trump's policies."

And if you tell people that she's going to implement Trump's very popular, common-sense policies-- they'll say, "Well good! We get Trump's policies without Trump's baggage."

Is squbbling about "credit" more important than that?

Anyway:

J.D. Vance hits Kamala for swiping Trump's policies

Quick Hit:

At a campaign rally in Big Rapids, Michigan on Tuesday, Senator JD Vance criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for allegedly adopting Trump's policies, mocking her for mirroring his agenda while campaigning for reelection.

Key Details:

JD Vance, running for vice president with Donald Trump, accused Kamala Harris of copying Trump's policies.

Vance highlighted Harris' shift from being the most liberal senator to supporting policies like border security and tax relief.

Vance mocked Harris' approach, suggesting she might even adopt Trump's slogan and attire.

Diving Deeper:

On Tuesday, Senator JD Vance (R-OH) took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign stop, accusing her of adopting policies first championed by former President Donald Trump. Vance, who is campaigning as Trump's running mate, humorously portrayed Harris as someone who closely follows Trump's lead, only to repackage his ideas as her own.

Speaking to a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Vance remarked on what he sees as a significant shift in Harris' political stance. He noted that she once held the title of the most liberal senator, yet now appears to be embracing several of Trump's key policies, including no taxes on tips and a stronger border.

"I read a story this morning that her advisers are considering just copying all of Donald Trump's policies," Vance quipped, drawing laughter from the audience. "They're more popular. In fact, I've heard that for her debate in just a couple of weeks, she's going to put on a navy suit, a long red tie, and adopt the slogan, 'Make America Great Again.'"

Vance's comments echo Trump's own sentiments. Earlier in August, during a speech on the economy in North Carolina, Trump suggested that Harris has been deliberately holding off on announcing her plans until after he has revealed his, allowing her to mimic his proposals.

"Kamala Harris won't end the economic crisis, she will only make it worse," Trump told his supporters. "And why hasn't she done it? She talks about it, she's doing a plan, you know, she's going to announce it this week maybe." Trump then added, "She's waiting for me to announce it so she can copy it," which was met with cheers from the crowd.

Trump gets at the right line of attack there -- "If she really supports these policies, then why isn't she already doing it, then?" is the right way to answer this. But it's buried under a lot of whining that she's copying his homework.

If you accuse her of stealing good policy ideas, you might just accuse her into victory.

Please stop. Please focus on what actually matters, not this petty personal grade-grubbing bullshit.

She's not even claiming she'll build the wall. She's doing what she did with fracking -- having anonymous aides tell her media allies that she's changing her position, without committing to that change herself.

Of course, this comes to Axios through unnamed campaign aides, since Harris herself still won't speak to reporters or publish her policy positions:

[Marxist propaganda rag Axios:] If she's elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border -- a project she once opposed and called "un-American" during the Trump administration.

Why it matters: It's the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking -- proposals that aides say she now is against.

Needless to say, this new position-ish comes with a lot of caveats, with the first being that Harris herself has said next to nothing on this or any other policy as the nominee. It's what she did say at the convention that appears to have forced the campaign to address this, however. In her speech, Harris blamed the border crisis on Trump's opposition to a bipartisan immigration-reform proposal that Harris herself never endorsed, as Senate Republican James Lankford reminded Axios. Harris never once voiced support for the bill, and in fact never got involved in border-security issues, a crisis in which Lankford was closely engaged, calling Harris a "Johnny-come-never" on the issue.

Beside, the compromise bill may have given the Biden administration authorization to spend money on extending the Trump border wall -- but it was not nearly enough...

Ed Morrissey explains that Kamala is attempting to claim she supports the wall indirectly, by claiming she supported the Amnesty proposal pushed by that pale wan dickwarmer Lankford. Lankford's bill, he claims, exchanges amnesty but also "requires" funding for Trump's wall.

But what does it actually "require"? Ed Morrissey explains: Almost nothing at all.

"Requires" does a lot of heavy lifting here. Trump estimates that it will take $18 billion to complete the project. The compromise bill only authorizes $650 million, which only amounts to a 3.6% down payment on the full wall. At an estimated $46 million per mile, that appropriation would add a grand total of 14 miles of barrier on the southern border. That border stretches for over 700 miles, meaning that this allocation would have covered a grand total of 2% of the problem.

That's why Trump opposed it, of course. It was yet another fake. Lankford claims the bill "requires" funding for the wall, but when you check the specifics, it "requires" only 3.6% of the funds necessary.

Which will be reversed as soon as amnesty is granted anyway.

And furthermore -- PRESIDENTS ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO SPEND MONIES AUTHORIZED AND ALLOCATED. The bill can authorize the funds, but Biden-Harris would just choose not to spend it. Or to spend it on "related" matters, like... processing illegal aliens into the country.

This is all a lie, a scam, a hoax, a grand deception on par with those perpetrated by the Soviets and Nazis.

It is in no way "copying Trump's plan."

It's such a huge self-made disaster to do Kamala's bidding and pretend along with her that she's "copying Trump's plan"!

Note that Kamala Harris is actually running ads taking credit for the parts of Trump's border wall already built (and which she opposed).

She wants people to think that she's "stealing Trump's border policies" -- Trump accusing that only confirms her lie!

Harris is also lying now about not backing Electric Vehicle mandates.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION--Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign team said Tuesday it's a "lie" that she supports electric vehicle mandates, but her record on the issue suggests the opposite.

The Harris campaign blasted out an email ahead of Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance's Tuesday visit to Michigan, with campaign communications official Ammar Moussa writing that Vance would "undoubtedly lie" about things like the notion that "Harris wants to force every American to own an electric vehicle." However, Harris backed EV mandates while serving in the U.S. Senate, and presided over the Biden administration's massive spending and regulatory push to effectively force more EVs on the roads.

"Vice President Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate," Moussa wrote in the email. "Donald Trump railed against the Inflation Reduction Act while the Biden-Harris administration oversaw the creation of tens of thousands of new, clean energy jobs in Michigan and provided ground-breaking subsidies and tax credits for electric vehicles."

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Then-Sen. Harris was a co-sponsor of the Zero Emissions Vehicles Act in 2019, a bill that initially proposed to require 100% of new car sales to be EVs or otherwise be emissions-free by 2040. Harris later campaigned, during her failed 2020 presidential bid, on having all new car sales be zero-emissions models by 2035.

Harris was also the second-highest ranking member of the Biden administration while it pursued the biggest EV agenda in American history. The Biden administration has a goal of having EVs or other zero-emissions models make up 50% of new auto sales by 2030.

Regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration promulgated stringent regulations that will effectively force auto manufacturers to significantly increase the share of EVs and zero-emissions cars in their new fleets by 2032. Moreover, the administration is spending billions of dollars to boost EV production, adoption, and charging infrastructure.

I hope we don't start hearing she's also "copying Trump's let-the-market decide policy on EVs."

The border is one of the most radioactive issues for Kamala Harris. She is lying to make that issue go away.

We cannot assist her in selling this enormous lie to the public, for the love of everything holy.

Now having made a clear case as to why this is bad messaging, I'll now be attacked personally for not having enough Faith in Donald Trump and causing great harm to the cause by offering legitimate criticism which would actually help the campaign craft a more effective message. I'm putting out "bad vibes" that hurt Trump, and we can only show Love for Trump.

As if this is a competition to see who loves Jesus more.

As I've told people before: If you want to have yet another Who Loves Trump More competition, let me stop you right there-- you win. I'm not competing. You are the Biggest Trump Lover. You don't have to fight me for the title.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:30 PM

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