* Served as San Francisco District Attorney from 2004-2011
* Served as Attorney General of California from 2011-2017
* Was elected U.S. Senator from California in 2016
* Was elected U.S. Vice President in 2020
* Became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in July 2024, replacing Joe Biden on the ticket
* Views America as a nation thoroughly infested with racism
The First 25 Years
Kamala Devi Harris was born to an Indian mother (Shyamala Gopalan) and a Jamaican father (Donald J. Harris) in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964. The Harris family lived in Berkeley, California until 1966, at which point they began to relocate to various Midwestern college towns where the parents held teaching or research positions — places like Urbana, Illinois; Evanston, Illinois; and Madison, Wisconsin. But when Mr. and Mrs. Harris separated in 1970, Shyamala moved back to California with her two daughters, Kamala and Maya (born 1967); the couple divorced the following year. In 1976, Shyamala accepted a research position at the McGill University School of Medicine and moved with her daughters to Montreal, Canada.
After graduating from Westmount High School in Montreal in 1981, Kamala Harris attended Vanier College in Montreal (1981–82) before transferring to the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C., from which she graduated in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics. Harris then attended the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, where she served as president of its Black Law Students Association chapter and earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1989.
Harris was admitted to law school under the Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP), a race-based affirmative action initiative that, according to a 2018 UC Law SF Magazine article, “offers admission to approximately 50 high-achieving students each year … who have experienced major life hurdles, such as educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability.” But civil liberties attorney Laura Powell, in an October 21, 2024 tweet, noted that Harris was not in any way disadvantaged:
“Kamala Harris’s mother came from the highest caste in India, but by moving to the U.S. and Canada, obtaining a prestigious degree, marrying a future Stanford professor, having a successful career as a cancer researcher, and sending her daughter to private schools, her daughter became unusually disadvantaged?”
Powell also pointed out that in 2003, Harris’ mother had boasted to a reporter about her family’s upper-class status in India, saying: “We are Brahmins, that is the top caste. Please do not confuse this with class, which is only about money. For Brahmins, the bloodline is the most important. My family, named Gopalan, goes back more than 1,000 years.”
Kamala’s Parents & Grandparents
Kamala Harris is, in part, a descendant of a Jamaican slave owner, as her father, Donald J. Harris, explained in a January 2019 essay which he wrote about his family’s heritage:
“My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris (née Iris Finegan, farmer and educator, from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me). The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter (mostly pimento or all-spice), who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town (and where, as a child, I learned the catechism, was baptized and confirmed, and served as an acolyte).”
Both sides of Harris’ family were upper-class political figures in their respective countries, with money and power. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was an internationally famous cancer researcher and the daughter of P.V. Gopalan, a high-ranking Indian diplomat from the Brahmin caste. As a Los Angeles Times article described Shyamala, she was the “privileged child of foreign grad students.” She taught at universities in France, Italy and Canada, and she once told Modern Luxury magazine: “When Kamala was in first grade one of her teachers said to me, ‘You know, your child has a great imagination. Every time we talk about someplace in the world she says, Oh, I’ve been there. So I told her [the teacher], ‘Well, she has been there!’ India, England, the Caribbean, Africa—she had been there.” Modern Luxury also quoted “one of Harris’s Nob Hill friends” as saying that “her Brahmin background accounts for her ease around wealthy, powerful people.”
Harris’ father, Donald J. Harris (born 1938), was a professor of economics at Stanford University who served as an adviser to multiple Jamaican prime ministers. He was also a committed Marxist who pushed for Stanford to hire additional Marxist professors. In 1975, The Stanford Daily described Mr. Harris as “one of the leading young people in Marxist economics,” and in 1976 it called him a “Marxist scholar.” Among his noteworthy quotes are: (a) “I have heard no worthwhile arguments against Marxian economics”; (b) “Marx was the theorist of economic growth par excellence”; and (c) “the Marxian system remains today as a powerful basis upon which to construct a theory of growth of the capitalist economy appropriate to modern conditions.” During Mr. Harris’ time at Stanford in the mid-1970s, the university offered courses titled “Marxian Social Change” and “Marxist Economic Theory.”
In the early 1960s, both of Harris’ parents were active in the Berkeley-based Afro-American Association (AAA), an anti-integration, black nationalist group which opposed the NAACP and, according to one former member, consisted of many people who looked to “Fidel Castro and Che Guevara” as their “heroes.” “We would talk about Black Muslims, the liberation movements going on in Africa, everything,” this member recalls. AAA leader Donald Warden mentored two of the group’s members, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who in 1966 would collaborate to establish the Black Panther Party. Years thereafter, Warden — who by then had changed his name to Khalid al-Mansour — would use his influence to help Barack Obama gain admission to Harvard Law School.
Kamala’s Sister and Her Family
Kamala Harris’ sister, Maya Harris, was a student activist at Stanford University, where she befriended Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a longtime affiliate of the League of Revolutionary Struggle — a pro-China, Marxist-Leninist entity. In 2008, Phillips spent $10 million through PowerPAC-plus, the leftwing political action committee which he had previously founded, on voter-registration drives aimed at elevating Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns in America’s Southern and Southwestern states. In subsequent years, Phillips also lent his support to the political campaigns of far-left Democrats Cory Booker, Stacey Abrams, and Andrew Gillum. Moreover, Phillips and PowerPAC-plus: (a) helped Maya Harris’ husband, Tony West, become the Obama administration’s associate attorney general in 2012; and (b) helped Kamala Harris get elected as San Francisco district attorney in 2003, California attorney general in 2010, and U.S. senator in 2016.
Between 2003 and 2008, Maya Harris worked for the far-left ACLU of Northern California, serving variously as its: (a) Racial Justice Project director; (b) associate director; and (c) executive director. In 2020 she chaired the presidential campaign of her sister, Kamala. Maya has also defended the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamic extremist organization linked to Hamas.
Maya Harris’ husband, Tony West, served as a defense lawyer in 2002 for al-Qaeda terrorist John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban” who had taken up arms against U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 9/11. In 2008, West raised some $65 million for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. And during his subsequent tenure in the Obama Justice Department, West worked to expand the rights granted to enemy combatants who had been captured on the battlefield – e.g., requiring courts to put in place “procedural tools” that would “provide access to classified material in the government’s files that could be helpful to the detainee in challenging the government’s case.”
Kamala’s Mother
Kamala Harris moved to Montreal in 1976 after her parents separated; her mother was hired to teach at McGill University and to conduct research at the Jewish General Hospital. Kamala returned to the United States after graduating from the exclusive Westmount High School, located in one of Montreal’s wealthiest suburbs.
Kamala’s Husband
Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, was a partner from 2017-2020 with the law firm DLA Piper, which, according to Natalie Winters in the National Pulse, “boasts nearly 30 years of experience in China and over 140 lawyers dedicated to its ‘China Investment Services’ branch.” Adds Winters:
“To facilitate DLA Piper’s China practice—which has received countless prestigious awards from the China Business Law Journal and China Law and Practice—the company employs a host of former Chinese Communist Party officials.
“Ernest Yang, who serves as the firm’s Head of Litigation & Regulatory department and Co-Head of International Arbitration, was appointed to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in 2013. The CPPCC serves as the top advisory board for the Chinese Communist Party, and Yang was promoted to the body’s Standing Committee in 2019.
“Jessica Zhao, a Senior Advisor, served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), a government-owned body established by the Chinese Communist Party in 1956. It was developed under the auspices of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, ‘a governmental body for the furtherance of Chinese trade promotion.’”
Several other high-level employees of DLA Piper have served the Chinese regime in various capacities.
DLA Piper’s lobbying clients have included the governments of Afghanistan and Bahrain, as well as the Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera Network and the Palestine Monetary Authority.
Moreover, DLA Piper represented Qatar, which has harbored and funded Hamas as well as other Islamic terrorist groups through its state-owned Al Jazeera network, and had an office there as part of the Qatar Financial Centre Branch of DLA Piper Middle East. DLA Piper also entered into a $600,000 agreement with the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) to “strengthen its relationship with the American government.” As of 2019, DLA Piper was still representing the banking arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and inviting members of Congress to meet with then-PMA head Azzam Shawwa. By 2021, the PMA had become DLA Piper’s largest foreign principal.
Apart from his professional career with DLA Piper, Emhoff has been implicated in some notable controversies in his private life. For example, during his marriage with his first wife, Kerstin, Mr. Emhoff had a sexual affair in 2008 with Najen Naylor, a nanny whom the couple had hired to care for their two children, and impregnated her. It is widely believed that the baby was aborted at some point during the pregnancy.
And on October 2, 2024, the Daily Mail reported that in May 2012, shortly after Emhoff had attended a star-studded charity auction in southern France as the guest of a woman he had been dating for three months, he forcefully slapped the woman in her face when he thought she was flirting with a valet. For details of the alleged incident, click here.
Kamala’s Higher Education & Subsequent Career
Kamala Harris earned a B.A. from Howard University in 1986 and a JD from the UC Hastings College of Law in 1989. During her student years, she organized mentor programs for nonwhite minorities, demonstrated against South African apartheid, and pledged a black sorority named Alpha Kappa Alpha, which was engaged in social activism.
After graduating from law school, Harris spent the next quarter-century serving variously as: Deputy District Attorney for Alameda County from 1990-98; Managing Attorney of the Career Criminal Unit of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office from 1998-2000; head of the San Francisco City Attorney’s Division on Families and Children from 2000-03; San Francisco’s District Attorney from 2004-11; and Attorney General of California from 2011-17.
Willie Brown, Man with Deep Communist Ties
In 1994 the 30-year-old Harris was dating 60-year-old Willie Brown, who at that time was the Democratic speaker of the California State Assembly, making him one of the most powerful politicians in the state. Brown had been separated but not divorced from his wife since the 1980s. In June of ’94, Harris took a leave of absence from her job as a deputy prosecutor in Alameda County and was appointed by Brown to a $97,000-per-year position with the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (CUIAB).
Harris then resigned from that board five months later and was immediately appointed by Brown to a $70,000-per-year job with the California Medical Assistance Commission (CMAC), a post she would hold until 1998. Harris had no medical background whatsoever when she joined the CMAC, which was noteworthy in light of the fact that Commission members were technically required to have experience in health-and-medical-related fields. Moreover, all the other CMAC members were former state officials who were either nearing retirement or already semi-retired, thus Harris was approximately three decades younger than anyone else on the Commission. According to former California Republican state assemblyman Brett Granlund: “Both boards [CUIAB and CMAC] are reserved for political payback or occasionally for personal rewards for personal service. The boards are considered plu[m] appointments as they require no work, no policy credentials, and are paid the equivalent of a full-time [state] senator for arriving at a one-to-two-hour meeting each month.”
In October 2020, Trevor Loudon provided the following vital background information about Willie Brown’s communist ties: “Brown was a long-time communist sympathizer. He was first elected to public office with the help of the Communist Party USA youth wing. He was funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, a communist newspaper owner who was once awarded the Lenin Prize by the government of the former Soviet Union. Several years after his affair with Harris, Brown was still openly sponsoring Communist Party fundraisers in the Bay Area while serving as San Francisco mayor. Today, Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party’s best friends in the Bay
Amos Brown, Kamala’s America-Hating Pastor
Kamala Harris has known the Rev. Amos Brown, pastor of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church, where Harris is a “dues-paying member” of the congregation, since the late 1990s. As of July 2024, Brown had visited Harris at the White House on at least two occasions. “For two decades now, at least, I have turned to you,” Harris said of Brown at the 2022 National Baptist Convention. “I have turned to him. And I will say that your wisdom has really guided me and grounded me during some of the most difficult times. And — and you have been a source of inspiration to me always.” At the NAACP’s national convention that same year, Harris stated that Brown “has been on this journey with me every step of the way, from when I first thought about running for public office almost two decades ago.”
Friend & Admirer of Al Sharpton
Notwithstanding activist Al Sharpton’s long history as a highly prominent racist, black supremacist, and Jew-hater, Harris in July 2019 lauded him as a “friend” who “has spent his life fighting for what’s right.”
During her tenure as San Francisco district attorney (2004-11), the number of prison terms per arrest in San Francisco were California’s lowest — ten times lower than the corresponding rate in San Diego County.
A few days after a San Francisco police officer named Isaac Espinoza was shot and killed by a gang member with an AK-47 rifle during a routine traffic stop in 2004, District Attorney Harris – who had campaigned for that office on a pledge that she would never pursue capital punishment for any criminal, because she considered it unjust and immoral – announced that she would not seek a death sentence for Officer Espinoza’s killer. When Espinoza’s family subsequently pleaded that she reconsider her position for this particular case, Harris said: “I approach the work of being a prosecutor as the responsibility to do justice. It’s not about the responsibility to lock people up for the maximum amount of time. It is the responsibility to make sure the criminal justice system has integrity.”
In the early 2000s, Harris’ Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre, was active with the New York-based Haiti Support Network, which worked closely with the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the far-left former president of Haiti. Jean-Pierre also worked on the re-election campaign of China-friendly New York City Council member James Sanders. In that role, Jean-Pierre collaborated with the notoriously corrupt community organization ACORN.
As San Francisco District Attorney in 2008, Harris filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller. She argued that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual’s right to own a gun.
During her tenure as San Francisco District Attorney, Harris mentored a young local activist named Lateefah Simon, who at that time was a board-of-directors member of the Oakland-based Youth Empowerment Center, whose other board members — Harmony Goldberg, Adam Gold, Cindy Wiesner, and Van Jones — were all, without exception, members of the Maoist organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). Harris soon hired Simon, helped her get through college, and introduced her to many influential people in the Bay Area. Simon later went on to become: (a) president of the leftist Akonadi Foundation, and (b) a member of LeftRoots, an affiliate of America’s leading pro-China communist party, Liberation Road. Simon also became best friends with another LeftRoots member, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza.
In 2008, Harris was disturbed when California voters approved Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in that state. In December 2010, as she prepared to commence her tenure as California Attorney General, Harris announced that her AG office – in a departure from the custom whereby AGs traditionally defend state laws – would not defend Proposition 8 before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The reason for Harris’ refusal to defend Prop. 8, was that she personally disagreed with it. “It’s well within the authority vested in me as the elected attorney general to use the discretion of my office to make decisions about how we will use our resources and what issue we will weigh in on or not,” she said. When Proposition 8 eventually went before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013, Harris stated: “I declined to defend Proposition 8 because it violates the Constitution. The Supreme Court has described marriage as a fundamental right 14 times since 1888. The time has come for this right to be afforded to every citizen.”
When the Supreme Court decided in June 2015 to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, Harris called it an “incredible day in history.” “California is validated. We are validated,” she said during a news conference in Sacramento. “Each day that one of those couples have to go without being able to have their marriage and their love legally recognized,” Harris added, “… is one day too long.” Harris also directed a message to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who dissented from the decision and depicted California as a cultural outlier. “Don’t hate the playa, hate the game,” said Harris.
In 2009, Harris announced that she would seek life imprisonment, rather than capital punishment, against El Salvadoran illegal alien Edwin Ramos, an MS-13 gang member who in 2008 had murdered a father and two of his sons (while critically wounding a third son) in a drive-by shooting. Ramos, mistaking the victims for gang rivals, killed them when they were returning home from a family picnic.
In 2010, Harris narrowly defeated Los Angeles County district attorney Steve Cooley, a moderate Republican, in a race for California Attorney General. Her margin of victory was just 74,000 out of 8.8 million votes, or a margin of 0.8 percent. Cooley had been leading in her in most pre-election polls, and he actually declared victory on election night. But Harris eventually prevailed after all provisional and mail-in ballots were counted. She went on to serve as A.G. from 2011-2017.
In 2011, pro-Israel legal experts affiliated with the AMCHA Initiative, the Israel Law Center, and the Global Frontier Justice Center petitioned then-Attorney General Harris to sue David Klein, a California State University at Northridge (CSUN) mathematics professor who was a member of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and who served as the faculty adviser to CSUN’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. Specifically, the three pro-Israel groups charged that Klein was using his publicly funded, university-provided website to promote the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a pro-Hamas initiative, in violation of laws prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being used to finance non-business-related endeavors. But Harris rejected all efforts to persuade her to bring charges against Klein. When the pro-Israel groups tried again, in 2012, to push Harris to take action against the professor, Harris said there was insufficient evidence upon which to base a lawsuit. AMCHA co-founder and director Tammi Benjamin described Harris’ response to AMCHA’s overtures as “very curt and short.”
On December 4, 2012, Attorney General Harris issued a memo informing all the executives of California’s state and local law-enforcement agencies that they could “make their own decisions about whether to fulfill” Immigration & Customs Enforcement detainers – i.e., temporary holds that federal immigration authorities may place on municipal prisoners who are suspected of being eligible for deportation.
In early 2013, Harris was one of dozens of prominent leftists who urged President Barack Obama to award, posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the late Fred Ross Sr., a Saul Alinsky-trained radical who mentored both Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Among those who also exhorted Obama to honor Ross were: Karen Bass, Xavier Becerra, Kim Bobo, Heather Booth, Barbara Boxer, Michael Capuano, William Lacy Clay, Rosa Delauro, Maria Echaveste, Sam Farr, Diane Feinstein, Raúl Grijalva, Roger Hickey, Mike Honda, Mazie Hirono, Dolores Huerta, Benjamin Jealous, Barbara Lee, Alan Lowenthal, Ben Ray Lujan, Michelle Lujan-Grisham, Jim McGovern, Grace Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Frances Fox Piven, Charles Rangel, Robert Reich, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Jan Schakowsky, Martin Sheen, Albio Sires, Hilda Solis, Mark Takano, Juan Vargas, Antonio Villaraigosa, and Maxine Waters.
In 2014, Attorney General Harris refused to take a position either for or against Proposition 47, a California state ballot measure that would reduce several felony offenses to misdemeanors, and would thereby result in thousands of prisoners being released. Though Prop 47 was opposed by every professional law-enforcement organization in California, and by 55 of the state’s 58 county district attorneys, the measure was passed by voters.
In 2014 as well, Harris agreed to a settlement with Rodney Quine, a transgender prisoner who was serving a life sentence for murder without possibility of parole. The settlement — which came after Quine’s attorneys had argued that a denial of their client’s desire to change his genitalia would violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” — permitted the prisoner to undergo a costly sex-change operation at taxpayer expense. Harris called the settlement “an important step forward in the ongoing effort to protect transgender rights in California.”
In 2015 Harris chose not to enforce a provision of Proposition 83, a measure that California voters had passed overwhelmingly nine years earlier to prevent the state’s 6,000 paroled sex offenders from being allowed to live within 2,000 feet of schools and parks. After the passage of Prop 83, the California Supreme Court ruled that those residency restrictions — because of a shortage of “compliant housing” in San Diego County specifically — violated the constitutional rights of sex offenders who lived in that county. But the Court issued no ruling whatsoever on the legality of the restrictions in California’s 57 other counties. Nevertheless, Harris concluded that the restrictions were invalid in those counties as well —and then refused to explain her legal reasoning.
Harris again demonstrated her low regard for immigration law after an illegal alien named Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez – a convicted felon who had been previously deported from the United States on five separate occasions – was released from a San Francisco prison in April 2015 and subsequently murdered an innocent young woman named Kathryn Steinle. Harris said she supported Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s decision – which was made in accordance with the city’s sanctuary policies – to set Lopez-Sanchez free rather than turn him over to immigration authorities. “I trust and believe in the ability of local sheriffs to make a decision about what’s in the best interest of his or her community in terms of local safety,” said Harris to the San Francisco Chronicle. “What needs to be looked at is comprehensive immigration reform…. Immigration policy in our country has to be reformed, and it has to be based on the fact that we have 11 million undocumented in this country—and California has the largest numbers of undocumented, in excess of 2 million people. In California, one in two Californians was born outside the United States, or has a parent born outside the U.S.—including myself.”
On July 14, 2015, the Obama–Biden administration — along with the leaders of Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany — together finalized a nuclear agreement with Iran. Its official name was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The key elements of the deal were the following:
Joe Biden took on the role of being the Obama administration’s leading public promoter of the Iran deal. He casually dismissed the concerns of critics who warned that the sunset clauses for key parts of the agreement would “pave Iran’s path to a bomb.” Those people, Biden said, simply “don’t get it, they’re wrong.”
Senator Harris characterized the deal as “the best available option for blocking Iran from developing nuclear weapons capability and to avoid potentially disastrous military conflict in the Middle East.”
In 2015 as well, Harris launched an investigation of journalist/anti-abortion activist David Daleiden, who had recently made headlines by releasing undercover videos demonstrating that Planned Parenthood routinely violated federal law by collecting and selling fetal tissue and body parts. As National Review reports: “The basis for investigating Daleiden was his appearing to have used a fake California driver’s license to hide his identity from Planned Parenthood, and the suspicion that he violated Planned Parenthood’s privacy. Those trivial allegations were enough for Harris to have eleven police officers raid Daleiden’s house, confiscate his computers and hard drives, some private documents, and all the yet-unreleased Planned Parenthood footage Daleiden had shot over two years. When Daleiden called his lawyer, Harris’ raiders tried to confiscate his phone too.”
In December 2015, a husband-and-wife pair of Islamic terrorists shot up a Christmas party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and wounding 22. About three weeks earlier in France, another Islamic terror attack had killed 137 and wounded more than 400. Soon after the San Bernardino atrocity, Harris, who was then the Attorney General of California, convened a session on “Islamophobia” that included the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council , and the Muslim Students Association — all of which had previously defended Islamic terrorists. Even after “the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino,” she explained, it was wrong “to stoke fear and cast aspersions against an entire faith and the millions of law-abiding American Muslims.”
In June 2016, an Islamic terrorist gunman killed 49 people at a nightclub in Florida. Harris, who was running for the U.S. Senate at the time, mentioned this attack among others, including those in San Bernardino and Paris, and blamed them on “mental illness and violent extremism.” She also lamented that Muslims were suffering from a rash of “Islamophobia” caused by hate.
In July 2016, Harris appeared at a Ramadan event at the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC), which spun off the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and whose founders had expressed support for Islamic terrorism. At this ICSC event, Harris passionately denounced “Islamophobia.”
After Rep. Ilhan Omar’s widely publicized, anti-Semitic “Benjamins” comment in February 2019, Harris, who was then a senator, defended Omar, touting the threat of “Islamophobia” and expressing concern that “the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk.”
In the winter of 2016, when Harris was still the attorney general of California, Mark Pulliam wrote in City Journal:
“One of the attorney general’s responsibilities is assigning a short name and description for proposed ballot initiatives, ahead of the signature-gathering process. The name and description are supposed to be accurate and unbiased. When citizen-driven initiatives have run counter to certain Democratic special interests, however, Harris has been willing to cast them in a negative light, to hamper their chances—as she did for a recent pension-reform initiative, sponsored by former San Jose mayor Chuck Reed and former San Diego city councilman Carl DeMaio. The measure would have required voter approval for defined-benefit pension plans for future public employees, which drive up public costs by guaranteeing pension returns, regardless of market conditions. Harris issued a misleading description suggesting that the measure ‘eliminates constitutional protections’ for current employees, among them ‘those working in K–12 schools, higher education, hospitals, and police protection.’ Reed and DeMaio withdrew the measure rather than promote it under such a misleading description.
“Harris has used her authority over the initiative process to put her thumb on the scale in favor of Democratic Party interests, as well. In 2014, she sanitized the trial-lawyer-backed Proposition 46, a transparent attempt to remove the cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases put into place by the landmark Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975. Harris’ deceptive ballot description characterized the measure as requiring ‘drug and alcohol testing of doctors,’ but voters overwhelmingly rejected the ploy. Even liberal newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle criticized Harris’ manipulation of Prop. 46. ‘Voters should not be fooled by the title and summary put together by Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office that focuses on the testing as if it were the centerpiece of the measure,’ the paper editorialized. ‘It is not.’ […] The more conservative San Diego Union-Tribune accused Harris of ‘intentionally deceiving’ voters ‘by highlighting one of the fig leaves that trial lawyers attached to the measure to hide their real intent. It’s in keeping with her long history of using misleading ballot titles and summaries to help measures her allies like and hurt measures they don’t.’”
In the winter of 2016 as well, Mark Pulliam wrote in City Journal:
“Harris enthusiastically curries favor with labor unions. For example, her position [as attorney general] grants Harris broad authority to review and approve transactions involving nonprofit hospitals, and she has used that power to protect unionized employees at the expense of fiscal sanity. The nonprofit Daughters of Charity in Los Angeles County run six hospitals in low-income urban areas, including a well-trafficked trauma unit that handles the highest rate of gunshot and stab wounds in the county. With a largely uninsured clientele and high labor costs, the hospitals lose about $10 million a month and are headed for bankruptcy. The Daughters of Charity found a buyer for the hospitals: for-profit operator Prime Healthcare, which specializes in pulling troubled hospitals into the black. But hospital employees, represented by the powerful Service Employees International Union—which has endorsed Harris for the Senate—were unwilling to make concessions to Prime Healthcare. At SEIU’s behest, Harris imposed more than 300 conditions on the sale, requiring Prime Healthcare to continue all existing services for ten years, in order to protect union jobs. Prime officials complained that ‘the attorney general is telling Prime Healthcare to operate the hospitals exactly as [Daughters of Charity] has and expect different results.’ Prime Healthcare abandoned its $834 million bid but has filed suit against Harris, alleging that the conditions she imposed were a quid pro quo for SEIU’s financial support. […] On December 3, Harris put similar conditions on the proposed investment by Blue Mountain, which chose to proceed with a three-year option to purchase despite the conditions.
“In 2014, Harris and her union allies supported legislation (SB 1094) that would have made the A.G.’s authority over such transactions essentially unlimited, final, and unreviewable. The state legislature—beholden to organized labor—obligingly passed the law. Governor Brown vetoed the bill, explaining that the existing regulatory scheme—in place for “nearly two decades” and subject to judicial review—was working fine.”
When Harris had first run for the office of California Attorney General in 2010, there were 8,325 rapes in the state that year. By 2016, the corresponding figure was 13,695 — a 64% increase. Conservative columnist and author Daniel Greenfield has provided the following key details vis-a-vis Harris’ terrible track record:
“Kamala Harris did not become a prosecutor to protect women, but to protect criminals. The 64% increase in rapes on her watch was a symptom of that larger problem. Alongside notorious Soros DAs like George Gascon, she led a rebrand of soft-on-crime policies as ‘smart on crime’. This would also become the title of her book arguing for keeping many criminals out of prison.
“Among other things, ‘smart on crime’ meant cutting quick and easy plea deals while working as the DA in San Francisco to maintain the appearance of the high conviction rates that she would cite when running for attorney general. The plea deals that her office later cut statewide, … cooked statistics by raising conviction rates and lowering prison populations to create the illusion that pro-crime policies worked. […]
“By [2020], arrest rates [in California] had fallen to their lowest point since 1969 while violent crime soared. Even as violent crime rates increased, arrests continue to fall with catastrophic results for public safety in the state.”
Attorney General Harris was a strong supporter of Proposition 57, a 2016 California ballot measure that:
In July 2016, the Fresno Bee published an analysis of Prop 57 that pointed out its lack of clarity in defining exactly what constituted a “violent” crime:
“The measure itself declares, ‘Any person convicted of a nonviolent felony offense and sentenced to state prison shall be eligible for parole consideration after completing the full term for his or her primary offense.’ But what’s a nonviolent felony? [Governor Jerry] Brown’s campaign acknowledges that the measure, if enacted, would offer easier parole to anyone convicted of a crime not specifically listed as a ‘violent felony’ in Penal Code Section 667.5(c). That section includes rape, but limits its definition to ‘sexual intercourse’ by force, violence, extortion or threat. It excludes dozens of other forms of rape, including rape with a foreign object, and other sexual assaults that Harris’ crime report considers to be violent crimes. […]
“How does Harris’ office explain her obviously divergent definitions? It says, rather lamely, ‘The term nonviolent felony offense comes from the language of the governor’s sentencing measure itself. If the measure is approved by voters, it remains to be seen how nonviolent felony will be defined. In other words, Harris’ ballot summary merely parroted Brown’s wording, and the state’s top law enforcement official didn’t do her homework on how it starkly conflicts with her own agency’s definition of violent crime.
“Brown’s measure was cleared for the ballot – thanks to a generous decision by the state Supreme Court on its irregular drafting – just as the Capitol exploded with indignation about the light penalty on former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner for three counts of sexual assault of an intoxicated young woman. Turner faced as many as 14 years in prison but received just six months in jail. Two convictions were for sexual penetration of an unconscious or inebriated victim – crimes that are violent felonies in Harris’ annual crime report but are not considered violent felonies under Brown’s measure for which she provided the ‘nonviolent’ summary.”
In 2016, Harris ran for the U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by the retiring Barbara Boxer.
On her campaign website, Harris pledged to “make the minimum wage a living wage and tie it to inflation”; support President Obama’s “plan for making community colleges free”; support “expanding access to Head Start [and] Early Head Start, and creating national universal pre-kindergarten”; “make it a priority to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act,” legislation rooted in the premise that “women earn about 21 percent less than men”; strive to “en[d] [mass incarceration]” by “roll[ing] back draconian sentencing laws for nonviolent drug offenses”; “fight to end federal bans on student loans, food stamps, housing, and voting rights for ex-offenders”; “stop voter suppression” measures like Voter ID laws; and “expand early voting so everyone has ample opportunity to vote.” The website further stated that “everyone should have access to public education, public health, and public safety regardless of their immigration status”; that Harris would “fight for comprehensive immigration reform that creates a fair pathway to citizenship” for America’s “11 million undocumented immigrants”;[1] that she would “protect President Obama’s immigration executive actions,” which shielded several million illegals from deportation; and that the U.S. had a duty to “responsibly resettle refugees” from war-torn, terrorism-infested nations around the world.
Around the time that California Attorney General Harris decided to run for the U.S. Senate in 2016, she declared that the paperwork which conservative organizations like the Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP) had been filing for years in California was insufficient, and she demanded that those groups provide the state’s government with lists of their major donors. But her initiative failed, as National Review Online reports: “AFP convinced the federal district court that Harris’ request served no legitimate purpose and was part of a political campaign by Democrats against conservative organizations. It demonstrated, among other things, that government agencies had ‘systematically failed to maintain the confidentiality of Schedule B forms’ containing donor information and other financial data.”
Harris’ campaign website featured a petition to “protect” Planned Parenthood and “the important work it does.” Over the course of the 2016 election cycle, Planned Parenthood and its affiliates and employees contributed at least $30,000 to the Harris campaign. Other pro-abortion groups and their affiliates donated at least $50,000 more to Harris.
In 2016 as well, Harris was one of seventeen Attorneys General (16 Democrats and 1 Independent) who joined “AGs United for Clean Power” (AGUCP), a group launched by former Vice President Al Gore. AGUCP’s objective was to file criminal fraud charges against fossil-fuel companies (and their supporters) that failed to explicitly endorse the notion that greenhouse-gas emissions associated with human industrial activity are chiefly responsible for potentially catastrophic “climate change.” Harris and New York AG Eric Schneiderman, for instance, initiated separate investigations into ExxonMobil for allegedly funding research that questioned the veracity of anthropogenic climate-change orthodoxy — and for purportedly concealing the truth about climate change from their shareholders and the general public.[2] That same year, Harris’ Senate campaign website vowed that Harris, if elected, would “stand up to the climate-change deniers and fight to pass national climate-change legislation that promotes innovation like establishing a carbon tax or creating a cap-and-trade market for carbon pollution.”
In response to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s criticism of illegal immigration, Harris in August 2016 tweeted that “an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”
Harris defeated Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez by a margin of 23 percentage points in a June 2016 Democratic primary race, and subsequently became a U.S. Senator when she ran unopposed by any Republican in the November general election.
Over the years, Harris has cultivated a close political and ideological kinship with California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, whose federal campaign committee, Citizens for Waters (CfW), since 2006 has accepted fees from political candidates wishing to be featured in CfW mailers and to gain Waters’ endorsement. In 2010, Harris paid $28,000 to Waters’ campaign committee in order to appear in the CfW mailers during her bid for the post of California Attorney General. And when Harris ran for the U.S. Senate in 2016, she gave CfW another $30,000 in order to appear in the mailers.
After Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016, Harris became an outspoken supporter of the #MeToo movement against workplace sexual harassment. But on December 30, 2016, as Harris was preparing to transition from California Attorney General to U.S. Senator, Danielle Hartley — who since 2011 had served as executive assistant to Larry Wallace, director of the Division of Law Enforcement at Harris’ California Department of Justice — filed a lawsuit alleging that she (Hartley) had long been “harassed and demeaned” by Wallace “due to her gender.” The suit claimed that: (a) Wallace kept his printer on the floor beneath his desk and ordered Hartley, on a daily basis, to crawl there to replace the paper or ink, frequently in full view of other male executives from the division; (b) Wallace had taken away Hartley’s “meaningful tasks” and instead placed her in charge of running his personal errands; (c) after Hartley eventually informed her supervisor, Shannon Patterson, of the harassment, she began to experience various forms of retaliation by Wallace; and (d) Hartley suffered from panic attacks and depression as a result of the mistreatment to which she was subjected.
Hartley’s harassment and retaliation lawsuit was settled for $400,000 on May 16, 2017 by Xavier Becerra, who was appointed to replace Kamala Harris as California’s Attorney General. By that time, Wallace was working as a senior advisor to Harris in the senator’s Sacramento office.
When the Sacramento Bee asked Harris in December 2018 about the $400,000 settlement, she claimed not to have known anything about the harassment while it was occurring.
In a series of tweets which she posted on January 27, 2017 — International Holocaust Memorial Day — Harris compared Jews escaping Nazi genocide during the Third Reich, to modern-day Muslims from terrorism-connected countries in the Middle East seeking refuge in the United States. She also used the occasion to condemn President Donald Trump’s then-recent executive order declaring a temporary moratorium on travel to the U.S. by people from a small handful of such terror-tied nations. (NOTE: Harris chose not to mention the fact that the residents of those same countries had likewise been subjected to travel restrictions by Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama.) Tweeted Harris:
When President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2017, Harris tweeted: “Judge Gorsuch has consistently valued legalisms over real lives. I won’t support his nomination.” As the American Thinker pointed out: “'[L]egalisms’ (a.k.a. what the law actually says) are the very basis of the rule of law. When [Harris] touts ‘real lives,’ [and] not the law, as the proper basis for SCOTUS rulings, she openly endorses a political system based on favoritism, not the rule of law.”
When President Trump in June 2017 announced his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, Harris said that Trump’s “disastrous decision” would have “catastrophic repercussions for our planet’s future,” and would “threate[n] the world our children and children’s children will live in.”
In 2015, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), lauded Harris for including CAIR in an interfaith meeting with law-enforcement officials. He also stated that Harris “exemplified leadership” by having pledged to address the allegedly widespread scourge of “Islamophobia” in America.
In December 2015 — shortly after two Muslim terrorists had killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in a San Bernardino, California mass shooting — Harris hosted CAIR for an interfaith community event.
In 2016, CAIR’s political action committee donated $1,750 to Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign.
In October 2017, Harris said the following about CAIR: “The council has strived to improve understanding about Islam, and move toward a future in which we welcome people of all faiths and nationalities into our neighborhoods and our schools, as well as our hearts and our minds.”
In September 2018, Harris wrote a letter of support to CAIR on the occasion of the organization’s 24th anniversary. Said the letter: “As you celebrate this milestone, please accept my gratitude and admiration for your tireless work to promote peace, justice, and mutual understanding. For nearly a quarter century, CAIR has worked diligently to dismantle Islamophobic rhetoric, mobilize the American Muslim community, and encourage civic engagement…. In the face of intolerant and exclusionary policies, CAIR has steadfastly defended the Constitutional rights of American Muslims … Today, as we continue to promote tolerance and eliminate hate in our society, CAIR’s work remains as important as it was the day of its founding in 1994.”
CAIR advised Harris on community issues during her time as attorney general and senator in California, and in 2018 Harris sent a personal letter to the organization expressing her “gratitude and admiration.”
In the fall of 2017, Harris delivered an address, via teleconference, to the Democracy Alliance, a network of ultra-wealthy donors who support Democrat and leftist causes.
On January 30, 2018, Harris was one of several Democrats who brought illegal aliens as their guests to President Trump’s State of the Union address. Harris’ guest was Denea Joseph, communications coordinator for the UndocuBlack Network, an advocacy group for black illegal aliens. “Dreamers like Denea represent the best of who we are as a nation,” said Harris. “Her commitment to the representation and empowerment of black immigrant communities is inspiring. We must continue to fight to give her and the hundreds of thousands of other young people like her who are living in fear, the security they need to live up to their full potential.”
At a 2018 parade in Los Angeles, Senator Harris joined a crowd of attendees in chanting repeatedly: “Up, up with education. Down, down with deportation!”
At a Netroots Nation conference in August 2018, Harris charged that critics of “identity politics” were employing that term to disparage the notion that issues of race, gender and sexual orientation were worthy of public concern. “I have a problem, guys, with that phrase, ‘identity politics,’” said the senator. “Because let’s be clear, when people say that, it’s a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide, and it is used to distract. Its purpose is to minimize and marginalize issues that impact all of us. It is used to try and shut us up…. These issues that they’re trying to diminish and demean are the very issues that will define our identity as Americans.” “We’ve all heard how critical black women were to Doug Jones’ victory,” Harris said of the Democrat who had won a 2017 special election to determine who would fill the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama). “But that didn’t just magically happen. It happened because black women have been putting in the work, going door to door, organizing even when the cameras were focused elsewhere.”
During the February 24, 2019 airing of MSNBC’s AM Joy, host Joy Reid asked Harris if, during her presidential campaign, it “would it be difficult for you to advocate race-based policy.” In her response, Harris said:
“I want to talk about the issue of identity politics, Joy. This term identity politics, people will use that term — it’s like people used to talk about the race card. They bring this term up when you talk about issues that are about race, about sexual orientation, about religion. They’ll bring it up when we are talking about civil rights issues as a way to marginalize the issue, as a way to frankly try to silence you or shut you up. We need to call it what it is, which is to try and divert away from a conversation that needs to happen in America. Why? One, because we must speak truth. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Semitism are all real in this country, so we need to have that conversation and address it. Two, and this is equally important, how America deals with the issues and the disparities, and also the hate that can be — that causes these issues to become lethal in proportion — how America deals with these issues is a matter of American identity. This is not about identity politics, and if it is, it’s about the identity of the United States of America. How we handle the issues will be about our collective identity.”
In 2018, Senator Harris introduced the Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act, an affirmative action-style bill requiring the Federal Reserve to interview “at least one individual reflective of gender diversity and one reflective of racial or ethnic diversity.”
In 2018 as well, Harris introduced the Census Equality Act, a Senate bill requiring the Census Bureau to collect information on the “sexual orientation and gender identity” of the American population.
On October 29, 2018, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a non-partisan ethics watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics against Senator Harris and Senator Elizabeth Warren. Said the FACT complaint: “Senators Warren and Harris both sent campaign fundraising emails before the Senate vote on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Specifically, the campaign emails both stated Senators Warren and Harris’ official role and positions on the ongoing confirmation hearing and then made direct requests for campaign donations with ‘DONATE NOW’ and ‘CONTRIBUTE’ buttons. Senate ethics laws prohibit candidates from using the promise of official action or legislative work in a direct ask for campaign cash.” “This is a clear violation of the Senate Ethics rules which safeguard against the appearance or actuality of elected officials ‘cashing in’ on their official position for political purposes,” said FACT executive director Kendra Arnold.
In November 2018, Harris asked Ronald Vitiello, the former Border Patrol agent whom President Trump had nominated to head the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, if he believed that ICE, by the manner in which it treated illegal migrants, was creating public fear and distrust in a manner similar to how the Ku Klux Klan had sparked such emotions during its heyday in the 20th century. The senator cited a 2015 tweet in which Vitiello had said that the Democratic Party was reminiscent of a “neo-Klanist” organization. When Vitiello apologized for the tone and content of those words, Harris asked him: “What is the history that would then make those words wrong?” He replied that said the KKK would be considered a domestic terrorist group by modern standards, and that it had used “fear and force” to advance its political agendas. Harris then asked, “Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at ICE is being used to enforce the laws, and do you see any parallels?” “I do not see a parallel between what is constitutionally mandated as it relates to enforcing the law,” Vitiello answered, adding: “I see no perception that puts ICE in the same category as the KKK.” A moment later, Harris asked: “Are you aware that there is a perception that ICE is administering its power in a way that is causing fear and intimidation, particularly among immigrants, and specifically among immigrants coming from Mexico and Central America? Are you aware of that perception?” When Vitiello again replied that he saw no parallel between ICE and the KKK, Harris asked: “Sir, how can you be the head of an agency and be unaware of how your agency is perceived by certain communities?”
In December 2018, Harris joined fellow senator Mazie Hirono in challenging President Trump’s nomination of Brian Buescher to the U.S. District Court for Nebraska — because the judge belonged to the Knights Of Columbus (KOC), the world’s largest Catholic fraternal organization, which the two lawmakers characterized as an “extreme” entity. The senators’ bone of contention was the fact that KOC affirms traditional Catholic teaching on issues such as marriage, sexuality, and abortion. Both senators pressured Buescher to resign from KOC. In a Senate hearing, Harris asked the nominee: “Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?”
As columnist Kevin D. Williamson noted in the New York Post: “[T]he Constitution explicitly forbids imposing any religious test for public office, which is what Sens. Harris and Hirono here propose to do for the federal judiciary. The second and related issue is that it is not the Knights of Columbus that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, but the Catholic Church. If a KOC member is ineligible to serve on the federal bench because of the beliefs of that organization, then every Catholic in the United States — and the world, for that matter, all 1.2 billion of them — is ineligible for similar office, since they belong to a much larger and much more prominent organization that is the source of those ‘extreme positions’.”
On January 21, 2019, Harris announced that she was launching a campaign for the presidential election of 2020. Six days later, she kicked off her campaign with a speech before thousands of supporters in Oakland, California. Early in her talk, Harris asserted that: (a) “our criminal justice system [is] deeply flawed” and needs to become “more fair”; (b) “middle class families” had been “defrauded” by “wealthy bankers” whose “arrogance of power” enabled them to “accus[e] innocent homeowners of fault, as if Wall Street’s mess was of the people’s making”; (c) President Trump’s proposed border wall was nothing more than a “medieval vanity project” that would do nothing to protect Americans; and (d) “our Dreamers [illegal aliens who first arrived in the U.S. as minors] … came by the thousands … because they believe in our democracy and the only country they’ve ever known as home.”
As she continued her speech, Harris recited a series of declarations purporting to describe how the policies of the Trump administration were ruining the United States. Some excerpts:
Harris subsequently enumerated a series of unflattering “truths” about American life. Among them were the following:
After laying out her description of a nation where racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and all manner of hatred and intolerance were ubiquitous, Harris proceeded to condemn the “powerful forces trying to sow hate and division among us.” After that, she laid out the top agenda items of her campaign. Among the most noteworthy:
On August 18, 2019, Harris tweeted in support of The 1619 Project, a collection of essays whose unifying theme is their claim that America is a racist nation whose original sin of slavery can never be redeemed. Wrote Harris: “We must speak this truth: the very foundation of our country was built on the backs of enslaved people.”
Immigration
Harris’ campaign website said:
“As president, Kamala will fight to pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million people living in our communities and contributing to our economy. While she wages that fight, she will immediately reinstate DACA and implement DAPA to protect DREAMers and their parents from deportation. She will also restore and expand Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who would face war or catastrophe if forced to return home.”
“Kamala also believes we must fundamentally overhaul our immigration enforcement policies and practices—they are cruel and out of control. As president, she’ll close private immigrant detention centers, increase oversight of agencies like Customs and Border Protection, and focus enforcement on increasing public safety, not on tearing apart immigrant families…. It’s why she’ll reverse President Trump’s Muslim Ban on Day One and fix the family visa backlog…. She understands that for many immigrant families, leaving home and arriving at our Southern border is not a choice. That’s why she will ensure those fleeing persecution have a full and fair opportunity to make their claim, aggressively pursue a foreign policy focused on stabilizing Central America where conditions have forced families to flee, and increase funding for processing centers and child welfare workers.”
Vowing to expand the number of people covered by DACA from about 700,000 to approximately 6 million, Harris said: “These young people are just as American as I am, and they deserve a president who will fight for them from day one.”
Regarding the construction of a wall along the southern U.S. border, Harris said: “Let’s get this straight: Billions of dollars for a border wall is a waste of money. American taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for the President’s vanity project. We simply don’t need it.”
Harris opposed the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act, which called for the withholding of federal grants to sanctuary cities.
Healthcare & Abortion
In every year which she served as a senator, Harris had a 100% voting record with NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Congressional Record on Choice.
During her campaign, Harris announced a Medicare for All plan that promised to cover comprehensive abortion services for all women, and to establish a list of politically conservative states that would be required to get approval from the Department of Justice before they would be permitted to pass any pro-life legislation into law. As Vox.com explains: “Under Harris’s proposal, states whose abortion-related laws have recently been struck down by courts for violating Roe v. Wade would have to obtain federal approval from the Justice Department before they’re able to implement any new abortion laws. It’s similar to a key provision of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, which required states that had implemented discriminatory voting practices in the past to get Justice Department clearance to enforce additional laws.… Harris’s plan … would establish a list of states that aren’t able to impose abortion-related laws without Justice Department approval. Any state that’s demonstrated a pattern of violating Roe in the past 25 years would be on this list…. In states like South Carolina, Iowa, Georgia, and Mississippi, federal judges have already ruled that laws approved by state legislatures contradict Roe. Such decisions would land these states on a ‘preclearance’ list.”
Advocating the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which since 1976 had barred the use of public money to fund abortions, Harris said that “no woman’s access to reproductive health care should be based on how much money she has.”
When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Harris whether she supported granting taxpayer-funded benefits “to people who are in this country illegally,” she responded: “Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period.”
In a June 2019 Democratic presidential primary debate, co-moderator Savannah Guthrie asked the candidates to raise their hand if their healthcare plan would cover “undocumented immigrants.” Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, Marianne Williamson, John Hickenlooper, and Eric Swalwell all raised their hands.
In her speech at a 2019 presidential campaign event in Iowa, Harris vowed that in order to forcibly lower the costs of pharmaceuticals, she, as president, would have the government set what it deemed to be a fair market price for each drug, and would punish any pharmaceutical companies that failed to comply by “snatch[ing]” their patents for the medicines in question. “I will snatch their patent so that we [the government] will take over,” she declared. When a rally attendee asked, “Can we do that?”, Harris replied: “Yes we can do that! … The question is, do you have the will to do it? I have the will to do it!”
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris said that her Medicare-for-All plan would establish a list of politically conservative states that would be required to get pre-approval from the Justice Department before they would be permitted to pass any pro-life legislation.
Energy and Environmental Issues
Harris’ campaign website said:
“My plan sets out a bold target to exceed the Paris Agreement climate goals and achieve a clean economy by 2045, investing $10 trillion in public and private funding to meet the initial 10-year mobilization necessary to stave off the worst climate impacts. It modernizes our transportation, energy, and water infrastructure. It accelerates the spread of electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines. And it makes big investments in battery storage, climate-smart agriculture, advanced manufacturing, and the innovative technologies that will build our carbon-free future. By 2030, we will run on 100 percent carbon-neutral electricity, all new buses, heavy-duty vehicles, and vehicle fleets will be zero-emission. All new buildings will be carbon-neutral…. We will transition our public lands from producing the fossil fuels that represent 24 percent of national emissions to carbon sinks.”
In September 2019, Harris stated that she would absolutely commit to a federal ban on hydraulic fracturing — i.e., fracking. Said Harris: “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”
Green New Deal
In an October 2018 campaign appearance, Democrat congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made reference to a “Green New Deal” that would aim to make the U.S. 100 percent reliant on renewable energy sources (wind, water, solar) by the year 2035. Joe Biden appointed Ocasio-Cortez to co-chair his presidential campaign task force on climate change along with John Kerry.
The Green New Deal would strive to eliminate all fossil fuels from the U.S. electric grid by 2030, thereby forcing Americans to use much more expensive and much less reliable energy sources such as wind and solar, neither of which is capable of fulfilling more than a tiny fraction of America’s energy needs. The plan would also mandate trillions of dollars in public expenditures on government-approved “upgrades” and “retrofits” to make existing homes and businesses more “energy efficient” — and would impose zero-carbon standards for all new building construction.
In addition to environmental and energy matters, the Green New Deal would “build on FDR’s second bill of rights by guaranteeing” a number of major benefits:
Noting that “none of these proposals has anything at all to do with climate change,” Heartland Institute president Tim Huelskamp describes the Green New Deal as “the most radical socialist proposal in modern congressional history.” In a Washington Post interview in July 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief-of-staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, candidly acknowledged that the Green New Deal had not been devised to protect the environment, but rather to implement socialism. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys [reporters] think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
While Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Green New Deal in the U.S. House, Democrat Senator Ed Markey introduced a Senate version of the bill. By March 14, 2019, eleven U.S. Senators and ninety U.S. House Members — all Democrats (except “Independent” Bernie Sanders) — had officially signed on as co-sponsors of the Green New Deal. Among those 101 individuals were 2020 presidential candidates Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, and Bernie Sanders. In March 2019, Harris said: “I’m a proud co-sponsor of Senator Markey’s Green New Deal resolution.”
Economy & Taxes
Harris’ campaign website said:
“When the bankers who crashed our economy get bonuses but the workers who brought our country back are barely getting by, it’s clear: Our economy isn’t working for working people. Kamala believes we need to fight for working families — to increase paychecks, decrease the cost of living, and combat sexism, racism, and corporate favoritism in our economy to ensure every American gets a fair shot.
“That’s why Kamala’s first priority as president will be to give working and middle class families an overdue income boost. Under her plan, she’ll reverse President Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cut for big corporations and the top 1% and use that money to give a tax credit of up to $6,000 to working families each year. That’s just the start. To raise wages, Kamala will fight to empower unions, make a $15 minimum wage the national floor, and create stricter penalties for companies that cheat their workers…. She’ll pass her Rent Relief Act to provide a tax credit for people spending 30 percent or more of their income on rent and utilities. She’ll increase the federal government’s investment in child care to ensure working families don’t pay more than 7 percent of their income on care. And she’ll crack down on pharmaceutical companies that price-gouge while empowering the government to negotiate down the price of prescription drugs. As president, she’ll mandate equal pay for women, promote policies that build wealth in communities of color, and crack down on corporations that exploit vulnerable Americans for profit.”
Condemning President Trump for enacting “irresponsible, sugar-high tax cuts,” Joe Biden called it “pure selfishness” for anyone to object to paying higher taxes that would help pay for government programs benefiting low-income minorities. “When I’m president,” said Biden, “… we’re going to reverse those Trump tax cuts.” “Eliminating just a few of the [Trump] tax cuts” would be inadequate, he claimed. “I’m going to eliminate most all of them.” During the 2020 vice presidential debate, Kamala Harris said: “On day one, Joe Biden will repeal that [Trump] tax bill. He’ll get rid of it.” Similarly, at an October 30, 2020 campaign stop in Texas, Harris said to a cheering audience: “I promise you this — as a first order of business, Joe Biden and I are about to work to get rid of that tax cut.”
Education
Charter schools often serve as outstanding alternatives to failing, substandard public schools — particularly in poor urban areas. They operate as schools of choice and are exempt from many state or local regulations related to operation and management. School voucher programs allow low-income, mostly-minority parents to take the taxpayer money that is normally allocated for their child’s education in a failing, substandard public school, and to use it instead to cover the cost of tuition at a private school of their choice. Harris — in accord with the official Democrat Party position, opposes both charter schools and voucher programs. For example, she said she was “particularly concerned with [opposed to] expansions of for-profit charter schools,” and she criticized President Trump’s campaign promise to, as Harris put it, “divert public school funding to private school vouchers.”
Harris promised that if she and Biden were elected, they would make both a two- and four-year college education tuition-free for students from families earning less than $125,000 per year. She also pledged that “for those students who come out [of college] and have jobs that pay less than $125,000, student-loan debt will also be forgiven.”
Gun Regulation
Harris’ campaign website said: “If Congress fails to send comprehensive gun safety legislation to Harris’ desk within her first 100 days as president – including universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and the repeal of the NRA’s corporate gun manufacturer and dealer immunity bill – she will take executive action to keep our kids and communities safe.”
Her website also included the following policy proposals: “Mandate near-universal background checks by requiring anyone who sells five or more guns per year to run a background check on all gun sales. Revoke the licenses of gun manufacturers and dealers that break the law and take the most egregious offenders to court—regardless of whether they’re protected by the Protection of Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA)…. Ban AR-15-style assault weapons from being imported into the United States. In addition to enacting universal background checks, renewing the assault weapons ban, and repealing the PLCAA, Harris will fight to make gun trafficking a federal crime, ban high capacity magazines, and prohibit those convicted of a federal hate crime from buying guns.”
Harris supports forced, government-mandated buybacks of semiautomatic rifles. As she said in September 2019, “I think it’s a good idea…. We have to take those guns off the streets.”
As a district attorney in 2008, Harris filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller. She argued that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual’s right to own a gun.
Criminal justice
Harris’ campaign website said that Harris would: “End mass incarceration and invest resources into … community-based programs that reduce crime.”
When Republican Attorney General Bill Barr stated in 2020 that “I don’t agree that there is systemic racism in police departments generally in this country,” Harris said: “I think that Donald Trump and Bill Barr are spending full time in a different reality. The reality of America today is, what we have seen over generations and frankly since our inception, which is we do have two systems of justice in America.”
Religious Liberty
Harris believes that practicing Catholics who take seriously the doctrines of their faith are fundamentally unfit for office. Consider, for example, how she treated Nebraska District Judge nominee Brian Buescher during his November 2018 Senate confirmation hearing. Harris emphasized the significance of Buescher’s 25-year association with the Knights of Columbus (KOC), a charity organization that embraces Catholic doctrines stipulating that abortion is “a crime against human life,” and that marriage is a sacred union that should only involve one man and one woman. In a written question to Buescher, Harris asked: “In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as ‘a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.’ Mr. Anderson later said ‘abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale.’ Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?” Harris also questioned whether Buescher was “aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed marriage equality when [he] joined the organization” and whether he had “ever, in any way, assisted with or contributed to advocacy against women’s reproductive rights.”
During her tenure as California’s attorney general (2011-16), Harris refused to defend the California state law — which Californians themselves had voted for in 2008 — defining marriage strictly as a relationship between one man and one woman. “Adding insult to injury,” notes Tyler O’Neil in PJ Media, “Harris rushed to officiate the first same-sex marriage after a court struck down the will of the people.”
Harris favored the reinstatement of an Obama-era healthcare regulation that dated back to August 1, 2011 – nearly 17 months after the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) had been signed into law – when then-Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius announced a new mandate that required all Obamacare-compliant insurance plans to cover at least one form of female birth control, including sterilization. This mandate was unacceptable to many individuals and businesses whose moral and religious beliefs did not permit them to fund or participate in such insurance plans. Such was the case with Hobby Lobby, an arts-and-crafts store chain owned by devout Christians who are openly dedicated to “honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles.” Thus, Hobby Lobby asked HHS if, because of its religious convictions, it could be exempt from the Obamacare mandate.
As the attorney general of California, Harris in 2014 filed an amicus brief exhorting the Supreme Court to refuse a request in which Hobby Lobby asked if, because of its religious convictions, it could be exempt from the aforementioned Obamacare mandate. Asserting that “every American deserves access to quality, comprehensive healthcare,” Harris argued that “a woman’s access to essential services, including contraception, should not be restricted because of the religious views of her employer—particularly when the right to these services is protected under federal law.” The Supreme Court eventually sided with Hobby Lobby and struck down the Obamacare mandate in 2014.
Religious Liberty & The Equality Act
In January 2019, Harris tweeted: “Passing the Equality Act won’t only end discrimination against sexual orientation and gender identity, it’s a pivotal part in ending homophobia and transphobia and moving our culture forward to be more inclusive and respectful.”
The Equality Act was designed to force employers and workers to either accept and abide by leftwing dogma regarding marriage, sexuality, and gender, or lose their businesses and jobs. The most widely publicized example of what the Equality Act sought to achieve involved Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who declined to create a custom cake for a same-sex wedding and was subsequently sued by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. As the Alliance Defending Freedom explains: “In an exchange lasting about 30 seconds, Phillips politely declined, explaining that he would gladly make them any other type of baked item they wanted, but that he could not design a cake promoting a same-sex ceremony because of his faith.” Phillips’ case eventually went all the way to the Supreme Court.
When the Trump Justice Department in September 2017 sided with Jack Phillips, Harris tweeted: “Shame on the Justice Department for siding with discrimination. It has no place in our society.”
In June 2018, the Supreme Court issued a 7-2 ruling which held that although a baker is a business person who serves the general public and thus “might have his right to the free exercise of his religion limited by generally applicable laws,” the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s complaint was objectionable because the Commission itself had exhibited hostility towards Mr. Phillips’ religious views.
As the Heritage Foundation points out: “Other cases involving disagreement over the meaning of marriage feature florists, bakers, photographers, wedding venue owners, videographers, web designers, calligraphers, and public servants.”
The Equality Act would also politicize the medical profession by forcing hospitals and insurers to provide, and pay for, various gender-reassignment surgeries and therapies against any moral or medical objections they might have. Such abominations are already occurring. Catholic hospitals in California and New Jersey have been sued for refusing to perform hysterectomies on physically healthy women who said that they wished to transition themselves to male. Similarly, a Catholic hospital in Washington was sued by the ACLU for refusing to perform a double mastectomy on a sixteen-year-old girl with gender dysphoria.
The Equality Act also calls for the banning of all sex-specific sports teams and sex-specific facilities such as bathrooms and locker rooms. Neither schools nor charities would be exempt from this mandate.
The Equality Act would cause grievous harm to faith-based charities and the populations they serve. Indeed, state and local laws regulating sexual-orientation and gender-identity issues have forced faith-based adoption and foster care agencies in Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia to permanently close their doors – all for the purported transgression of promoting the “discriminatory” belief that wherever possible, children should be placed in a home with both a female mother and a male father.
Religious Liberty & The “Do No Harm” Act
In February 2019, Harris introduced the Do No Harm Act in the U.S. Senate, to counter the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993 and similar legislation in approximately 20 U.S. states. As Kenneth Craycraft writes in First Things: “The purpose of RFRA was to … carve out exemptions from generally applicable laws for some religious practices that are fundamental to religious belief. For example, a RFRA law might protect a church from another law that prohibits consideration of sexual orientation for employment, promotion, or retention. Or it might protect a physician who participates in public health reimbursement programs from a law requiring such physicians to perform a broad scope of so-called healthcare services, such as abortion.”
On the website introducing the Do No Harm Act to the American public, Harris explained that the bill’s overriding objective was to prevent RFRA laws from “being used to deny” such things as “healthcare access,… coverage or services to which persons are otherwise legally entitled,” or “services that the government has contracted to be beneficiaries through a government . . . grant.”
In making her case for the Do No Harm Act, Harris defined “religious freedom” very narrowly as “the freedom to worship,” as guaranteed by the First Amendment. But as Craycraft points out:
“‘The freedom to worship’ is not a ‘First Amendment guarantee.’ The First Amendment guarantees the ‘free exercise’ of religion, which has a much more expansive scope than mere ‘worship.’ The free exercise clause of the First Amendment provides that ‘Congress shall make no law . . . prohibiting the free exercise of’ religion. Harris misquotes the clause, changing ‘free exercise’ to ‘freedom to worship,’ betraying a definition of religious practice that would remove it from any meaningful legislative or political protection. In doing so, she turns the free exercise clause on its head, driving religious faith to the margins of public life and religious exercise out of public life altogether. In Harris’s tendentious reading, ‘free exercise’ of religion means ‘freedom to worship,’ and nothing more. If the doors of the church are not locked and guarded, or if you are not prevented from praying in your home, you have the full range of ‘the First Amendment guarantee,’ and you are guaranteed nothing more.… Free exercise of religion equals private prayer or conviction, and nothing else.”
Foreign Policy
Harris’ campaign website said:
“As president, Kamala will invest in new technology to fortify America’s critical infrastructure, including by passing her Secure Elections Act to protect against foreign interference in our democracy. She’ll immediately re-enter the Paris Agreement and make climate cooperation a key diplomatic priority for the United States. And she’ll confront white supremacy by re-establishing the Domestic Terror Intelligence Unit and reversing President Trump’s cuts to programs designed to combat white nationalism. As president, she’ll end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and protracted military engagements in places like Syria…. She’ll continue her unshakable support for Israel and work towards a two-State solution so that Palestinians and Israelis can govern themselves in security, dignity, and peace. She’ll stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but without isolating the United States diplomatically and risking an unnecessary war.”
Reparations & Other Racial Matters
According to Harris: “The reality is that the life of a black person in America has never been treated as fully human… It’s no wonder people are taking to the streets [to protest]. And I support them.”
At a February 2019 campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Harris said she was in favor of doing away with Columbus Day and replacing it with Indigenous People’s Day. She told the crowd that “we are the scene of a crime when it comes to what we did with slavery and Jim Crow and institutionalized racism in this country, and we have to be honest about that.”
In January 2019, Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee introduced legislation, H.R. 40, designed to address, by means of reparations payments, the “lingering negative effects of slavery on living African Americans and society.” The bill had 125 co-sponsors, all Democrats. Harris, for her part, said “we need to study the effects of generations of discrimination and institutional racism and determine what can be done, in terms of intervention, to correct course.”
In April 2019, Harris delivered a speech at Al Sharpton‘s National Action Network convention. After Harris had finished her remarks, Sharpton asked her: “I know you’ve already taken the appropriate position, but in the area of reparations for the descendants of Africans who have been enslaved, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has proposed a bill to form a commission to study how to do reparations. If you are elected president, would you sign that bill if it came across your desk?” “When I am elected president, I will sign that bill,” Harris replied, eliciting thunderous applause and Black Power fist salutes.
Notwithstanding Sharpton’s long track record as a highly prominent racist, black supremacist, and Jew-hater, Harris in July 2019 lauded him as a “friend” who “has spent his life fighting for what’s right.”
For details about Harris’s support for the Marxist, America-hating Black Lives Matter movement, scroll down to the section titled “Supporting Black Lives Matter & the George Floyd Riots.”
Electoral College
Harris stated that she is “open to the discussion” of abolishing the Electoral College. “There’s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who’s the president of the United States and we need to deal with that,” she said, “so I’m open to the discussion.”
Supreme Court
During an October 2018 public forum, Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that if Democrats could gain control of Congress and the White House, they should “pack the Supreme Court of the United States of America.” “Packing” the Court would entail increasing the number of Justices — from 9 to perhaps 13 or 15 — with all the additions being activists who could be counted upon to rule in favor of Democrat agenda items. The issue gained additional traction in October 2020, when Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett for a seat on the Supreme Court.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly refused to give his opinion on Court-packing: “You’ll know my opinion on Court-packing when the election is over,” he told reporters in October 2020.
During an interview on MSNBC, Senator Kamala Harris stated that she supported Biden’s position “1,000 percent” in refusing to say whether he supported expanding the Supreme Court. Said Harris: “Joe’s been very clear that he is going to pay attention to the fact — and I’m with him on this 1,000 percent — pay attention to the fact that right now … people are voting. They’re voting…. People will be voting up until Election Day, and they have a right, in an election, to elect their next president, who then will make the decision about who will be the nominee.”
But in 2019, Harris had said the following about the possibility of packing the Court: “We are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court. We have to take this challenge head on, and everything is on the table to do that.”
On January 29, 2019, Harris reacted with instant, horrified outrage when media outlets nationwide reported that Empire television actor Jussie Smollett, an openly gay African American, was claiming that he had just been victimized by a hate crime perpetrated by two white men who had assaulted him, poured bleach on him, draped a rope around his neck, and shouted “This is MAGA country,” along with a variety of anti-black and anti-gay slurs. Upon hearing this story, Harris tweeted: “@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery. This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.”
On February 14, 2019, Harris and fellow Senators Cory Booker and Tim Scott (a black Republican) asked for unanimous consent on the Senate floor to pass the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, legislation that would criminalize lynching for the first time in U.S. history. The motion was passed.
Less than three weeks after Smollett had first reported the alleged attack against him, it was clear that the actor’s tale was a fabrication, and that he himself had orchestrated the entire incident in order to gain publicity and to discredit President Trump and his supporters. When a reporter asked Harris to comment on the matter on February 18, she replied: “Okay, so I will say this about that case. I think the facts are still unfolding and I’m very concerned about obviously, the initial, um, allegation that he made about what might have happened. And it’s something we should all take seriously whenever anyone, um, alleges that kind of behavior, but there should be an investigation. And I think that once the investigation has concluded then we can all comment, but I’m not going to comment until I know the outcome of the investigation.”
On February 21, Smollett was charged with a felony for having filed a false police report. That day, Harris tweeted: “Like most of you, I’ve seen the reports about Jussie Smollett, and I’m sad, frustrated and disappointed. When anyone makes false claims to police, it not only diverts resources away from serious investigations but it makes it more difficult for other victims of crime to come forward. At the same time, hate crimes are on the rise in America…. Part of the tragedy of this situation is that it distracts from that truth, and has been seized by some who would like to dismiss and downplay the very real problems that we must address. We should not allow that. I will always condemn racism and homophobia. We must always confront hate directly, and we must always seek justice. That is what I will keep fighting for.”
In a February 11, 2019 interview on The Breakfast Club, a New York City-based radio program, Harris was asked to comment on rumors that she opposed the legalization of marijuana. “That’s not true, she replied, laughing. “Look, I joke about it, I have joked about it. Half my family is from Jamaica, are you kidding me?” Harris, who acknowledged having smoked marijuana in college, was also asked whether she would smoke it again if the federal government were to legalize the drug’s recreational use. She laughed and replied: “Listen, I think it gives a lot of people joy. And we need more joy.” Harris was also asked, “What [music] was you listening to when you was high? What was on? What song was on? Snoop [Dogg]?” The senator quickly responded, “Oh yeah, definitely Snoop. Uh, Tupac for sure.” Fox News subsequently reported that Harris was either not accurately identifying: (a) what music she had been listening to, or (b) what year she had smoked marijuana:
“Harris graduated from Howard University in 1986 and was finished with law school by 1989. She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1990. Snoop Dogg’s debut album ‘Doggystyle’ was released in 1993. Snoop made music prior to his first album … [in 1992, but that was] … years after Harris finished school. As for Tupac, his first album ‘2Pacalypse Now’ was released in 1991. The rap legend also recorded music as part of the group Digital Underground, but it was also released in the early 1990s after Harris finished school.”
In the aftermath of Harris’ interview, her father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris, said in a statement to Jamaica Global Online: “My dear departed grandmothers … as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.”
On February 14, 2019, Harris’ presidential campaign announced that Rep. Barbara Lee would be its California co-chair.
A former ally of the notorious Black Panther Party, Lee had been:
In September 2019, Harris reacted vocally after The New York Times printed an article about a newly published book about Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s 2018 Supreme Court nominee. The Times piece – written by the book’s authors, Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly – noted that the book – titled The Education of Brett Kavanaugh – discussed allegations in which a woman named Deborah Ramirez, who had been a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh more than 30 years earlier, claimed that a drunken Kavanaugh had once exposed his penis to her during a campus party. The article further reported that another “former classmate,” Max Stier, claimed to have personally witnessed the incident in question. But the article never mentioned Stier’s deep ties to the Democratic Party – most notably, he had worked for President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, while Kavanaugh was a member of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr’s investigative team which looked into Clinton’s misconduct in office. Nor did the article mention that Ramirez had refused to be interviewed about the alleged incident; that all three of the friends whom she had identified as witnesses steadfastly maintained that it never occurred; and that all three friends had stated that not even Ramirez herself could recall the incident. Despite the paucity of evidence against Kavanaugh, Harris said: “He was put on the Court through a sham process and his place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice. He must be impeached.”
In November 2019, Terry McAteer, an editorial board member of the California-based newspaper The Union, wrote a piece in which he provided details about Kamala Harris’ volatile character and her abusive treatment of staffers in her office when she was California’s attorney general. Some excerpts:
“As many of you know, my family has some long political roots. My dad, J. Eugene McAteer, was a San Francisco supervisor and [a Democrat] state senator until his untimely death at age 51. I pursued the educational political route and was elected Nevada County Superintendent of Schools for six- four-year terms. Our son, Gregory, loves politics and thought that it also might be his passion. A few years ago, I assisted him in securing a summer non-paid internship with Senator Dianne Feinstein in her San Francisco office. Feinstein’s office was unable to have Gregory start in June but told him that then-Attorney General Kamala Harris was looking for summer interns.
“While I have nothing against now-Senator Harris as she is a good orator and has done some fine things while holding elective office, I believe, however, how she treats her staff is as important as an individual’s legislative accomplishments. A person’s character is probably one of the most important attributes for someone wanting to obtain the office of President. […]
“Gregory had an eye-opening experience in Kamala Harris’ office that none of us expected. For his sake, the month could not pass quickly enough. Needless to say, he was delighted to work in Feinstein’s office for the rest of the summer. Four short episodes I would like to share of his month-long internship for Kamala Harris:
“Senator Harris vocally throws around ‘F-bombs’ and other profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others. The staff is in complete fear of her and she uses her profanity throughout the day.
“As Attorney General, Senator Harris instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, ‘Good Morning General.’
“Never once during the month-long internship did Harris introduce herself to our son (as he was only in an office with 20 paid employees) and staff was too intimidated by her to introduce him. The only acknowledgment was a form letter of ‘thanks’ signed by Harris given to him on his last day of service.
“Gregory was also given instructions to never address Harris nor look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members.”
As of March 31, 2024, only 4 of the initial 47 staffers who had been hired to work in Harris’ vice presidential office were still employed there – a 91.5% turnover rate.
Harris Vows to “Snatch” Patents away from Companies That Failed to Comply with Government Price-Fixing
In her speech at a 2019 presidential campaign event in Iowa, Harris vowed that in order to forcibly lower the costs of pharmaceuticals, she, as president, would have the government set what it deemed to be a fair market price for each drug, and would punish any pharmaceutical companies that failed to comply by “snatch[ing]” their patents for the medicines in question. “I will snatch their patent so that we [the government] will take over,” she declared. When a rally attendee asked, “Can we do that?”, Harris replied: “Yes we can do that! … The question is, do you have the will to do it? I have the will to do it!”
* (Note: This paragraph also appears in the above section titled: “Harris’ 2020 Presidential Campaign Platform.”)
On December 3, 2019, Harris ended her bid for the presidency amid declining poll numbers and reports of turmoil within her campaign. Characterizing her departure from the race as “one of the hardest decisions of my life,” she lamented that her campaign “simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.” “I’m not a billionaire,” Harris added. “I can’t fund my own campaign.”
In May 2020, Harria introduced the COVID–19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force Act that would provide Congress and other relevant federal agencies with “reports and recommendations related to racial and ethnic disparities in the COVID-19 response.”
In July 2020, Harris introduced the COVID–19 Bias and Anti-Racism Training Act, a bill that that sought to require the Department of Health and Human Services to “award grants to health care providers, public health departments, tribal organizations, schools for social workers and health professionals, and other nonprofit entities, for bias and anti-racism training to reduce disparities in COVID-19 response efforts.”
During a February 21, 2019 Comedy Central interview,[3] Harris praised the Black Lives Matter movement for its “incredible” and “smart” activism in demanding change to an American criminal-justice system replete with “bias” and “systemic racism.” “One of the benefits that I believe the system received and that helped me do the work that I was able to accomplish [as a former prosecutor] was because of the incredible activism and smart activism of folks, like the folks who were Black Lives Matter. The folks who were involved on the outside who were saying and demanding that the system would change, demanding and marching and advocating.”
A number of U.S. cities were overrun by violent riots following the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd, a black man who, shortly after having ingested more than triple a fatal dose of fentanyl, died in the aftermath of physical abuse by a white police officer in Minneapolis. On June 2, Harris delivered a speech in which she emphasized her belief that America always has been, and still is, a racist nation. Some excerpts:
“In the last couple of days, I’ve been saying America is raw right now. Her wounds are exposed. The reality of it is that the life of a Black person in America historically, and even recently with Mr. Floyd, has never been treated as fully human. And it is time that we come to terms with the fact that America has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has existed in our country. That’s just a fact. And so, the people protesting on the street are protesting understanding that we have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under the law. And there is a pain that is present that is being expressed in their constitutional right to march and to shout. […]
“And I can say, with full certainty that it is time that the leaders in this United States Senate, in this United States Congress, take action to reform a criminal justice system that for far too long, has been informed by systemic racism and by racial bias. It is time that we say that bad cops are bad for good cops. It is time that we say that one should not be subjected to the indignity of being told to get on your knees and put your hands behind your head, simply because you are walking while Black. And it happens every day in America. There’s not a black man I know, be he a relative, a friend, or a coworker, or colleague, who has not been the subject of some form of racial discrimination at the hands of law enforcement, not one I know.
“And I’m talking about people at every level of life, including people who graduated, Harvard and Stanford and you name it. And the only thing that is common among them is that the color of their skin is black. That’s why the people are marching in the streets. […]
“This is happening at a moment in time, where we have a so called commander in chief, who also has the title of President of the United States, who I promise you will never speak the words Black Lives Matter. Well, they do.”
On June 4, Cosmopolitan magazine published an opinion piece written by Harris, in which she again discussed what she views as the intransigent scourge of American racism. Some excerpts:
“This week, something historic happened. Thousands of people from every walk of life, every state across the country, came together. Many felt feelings of anger, sadness, fear, and hopelessness following George Floyd’s killing. But we all felt the urgency for change. Change in the name of George Floyd. Change in the name of Ahmaud Arbery. Change in the name of Breonna Taylor. And change in the name of the countless other Black Americans who have died at the hands of hatred and racism.
“This past weekend, I joined thousands of protesters in Washington, D.C. as we marched through the streets to demand justice for George Floyd. As I stood among the sea of people gathered outside the White House, I was overcome with emotion. I reflected on the fact that from the moment a Black woman gives birth to a child and holds her baby’s fragile body in her hand, she fears that that body could be viewed as a threat and that someone may try to do harm to her child….
“Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix. No longer can some wait on the sidelines, hoping for incremental change. In times like this, silence is complicity. It will take each of us to confront the injustices that continue to perpetuate a broken system that has taken countless Black Americans’ lives. It will take people of every race, creed, and gender identity to speak up and to act. Now is the time to have those uncomfortable conversations about racism with family, friends, and neighbors. It’s time to have honest discussions about our country’s dark history of discrimination and confront the fact that structural racism lives on in our policies and everyday life. And it’s time for all of us—not just some—to speak out against racism.”
On June 5, Harris was angered when President Trump said the following about George Floyd: “Equal justice under the law must mean that every American receives equal treatment in every encounter with law enforcement, regardless of race, color, gender, or creed. They have to receive fair treatment from law enforcement. We all saw what happened last week. We can’t let that happen.” In response to Trump, Harris tweeted: “@realDonaldTrump, keep George Floyd’s name out of your mouth until you can say Black Lives Matter.”
In a June 17, 2020 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Harris stated that the nationwide Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that had erupted following the death of George Floyd would, and should, continue indefinitely. Said Harris:
“They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. Everyone should take note of that on both levels. They’re not going to let up and they should not and we should not…. The only way we are going to truly achieve change is when there are people in the system who are willing or pushing to do it and when there are those of us who are outside the system demanding it. I am very clear that some of the success we have been able to achieve around criminal justice reform would not have happened in recent years without Black Lives Matter.”
In August 2020, Senator Harris, who had just been named as Joe Biden‘s vice presidential running mate, said, in a reference to the influence that BLM and its allies were having on America: “[W]e’re experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country, demanding change.”
During an August 2020 interview with The 19th, a Texas-based news organization, Harris said: “Black women pay attention to the issue issues. Black women are motivated to vote for the people who represent their priorities and their needs. And so when you look at everything that relates to what we’ve discussed in terms of childcare when you look at what we’re talking about in terms of jobs, health care when you look at what we need to do to address racial and not only disparities in terms of the healthcare system and in terms of the economy and education system, we need to speak about systemic racism, and when you have one ticket that can say the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ and another who has been full-time sowing hate and division in our country, those are the things that are going to motivate black women to vote. a point in pride about a black woman being on the ticket, it takes more than just that to motivate black women to vote.”
With regard to the ongoing protests against alleged police brutality and “systemic racism,” Harris said on August 27, 2020: “The reality is that the life of a black person in America has never been treated as fully human. We have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under the law. It’s no wonder people are taking to the streets. And I support them. We must always defend peaceful protests and peaceful protesters. We should not confuse them with those looting and committing acts of violence, including the shooter who was arrested for murder.”
In a September 2020 interview during the NAACP’s national convention (which was held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic), Harris praised the “brilliance” and “impact” of what she characterized as BLM’s very “necessary” protests. Said the senator: “Nothing that we have achieved that has been about progress, in particular around civil rights, has come without a fight, and so I always am going to interpret these protests as an essential component of evolution in our country — as an essential component or mark of a real democracy…. I actually believe that ‘Black Lives Matter’ has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system.”
Harris publicly supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), which made bail payments on behalf of people who were arrested for their participation in the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis and were awaiting trial — just as it had been making bail payments for all manner of misdemeanants and felons since 2016. In June 2020, the senator tweeted: “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” Thanks in part to Harris’ endorsement, MFF received more than $35 million in donations.
Moreover, at least 13 staff members of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign made personal donations to the fund.
One of MFF’s many noteworthy beneficiaries was 29-year-old Thomas Moseley, on whose behalf the organization posted $5,000 in August 2020 after he had been arrested for gun possession and property damage (to a police precinct). When Moseley was subsequently arrested and charged with Riot in the Second Degree on December 31, 2020, MFF again secured his release, this time posting $60,000 bail. Moseley was arrested again on January 27, 2021 — for fifth-degree possession of controlled substances — marijuana, cocaine and psilocyn mushrooms — while also in possession of a firearm.
Another MFF beneficiary was 36-year-old Timothy Wayne Columbus, who was arrested in the summer of 2020 for a crime unrelated to the rioting in Minneapolis. Specifically, he was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct for having vaginally penetrated an 8-year-old girl in 2015. MFF covered Columbus’ $75,000 bail.
During a June 9, 2020 interview on a New York-based radio program called Ebro in the Morning, Harris openly voiced her support for the “defund the police” movement that had mushroomed in the aftermath of George Floyd’s recent death and the riots that followed. Objecting to the amount of money that was being devoted to police budgets rather than to community services such as education, housing, and healthcare, the senator made the following remarks:
During a June 8, 2020 appearance on MSNBC, Harris explicitly called on U.S. cities to scale back their police forces and the funding that they received. “Part of what we have to do here is also look at the militarization of police departments and, and the kind of money that is going to that,” she said. “And we need to demilitarize police departments. At its core, one of the issues that I think we should all agree on is that it is old thinking. It is outdated and is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety.”
In another June 8, 2020 interview — this time on ABC’s The View — Harris advocated for police funds to be redirected to other social programs instead. “In many cities in America, over one third of their city budget goes to police,” she lamented. “So, we have to have this conversation. What are we doing? What about the money going to social services? What about the money going to helping people with job training? What about helping with the mental health issues that communities are being plagued with for which we’re putting no resources?”
And in a third June 8, 2020 interview — on ABC’s Good Morning America — Harris praised Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti for his decision to cut the city’s police budget by $150 million and reallocate those dollars to social services. “I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he’s done,” she said.
On June 11, 2020, Harris joined other Democrats as well as a number of media outlets in declaring that President Trump’s plans for future campaign rallies in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Jacksonville, Florida, were racist — simply because of the locations chosen, and the dates for which the rallies were scheduled. For example, Harris was vexed by the Trump campaign’s announcement that it would hold its first rally in Tulsa on June 19 — occasionally known as “Juneteenth,” the anniversary of the day when freed slaves in Texas were first read the Emancipation Proclamation. In the senator’s calculus, Trump’s choice of that date was a deliberate provocation: “This isn’t just a wink to white supremacists—he’s throwing them a ‘welcome home’ party,” she tweeted. Democrats and journalists also claimed that the choice of Tulsa as the site of the rally was racist, because in 1921 that city had been the scene of deadly race riots by local whites. Critics likewise objected to a Trump rally scheduled for Jacksonville on August 27, noting that it would coincide with the 60th anniversary of a Ku Klux Klan attack against black activists in that city.
In 2019 and 2020 — her last two years as a member of the U.S. Senate — Harris was rated as America’s “most liberal” / “most politically left” senator by GovTrack.us, a nonpartisan tracker of Congress and its members. Indeed, Harris’ politics were even farther to the left than those of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
For an overview of Harris’ voting record on a variety of key issues specifically, click here.
On August 11, 2020, Harris was announced as former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
On November 1, 2020 — two days before election day — Harris posted (on Twitter) a video animation that she narrated, and in which she said: explaining the difference between “equality” and “equity” and concluding that “equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.” The video showed illustrations of a white man and a black man each preparing to climb a mountain; the white man had access to a rope that helped him get started, while his black counterpart did not. Meanwhile, Harris recited her narration: “So there’s a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, ‘Oh everyone should get the same amount.’ The problem with that, not everybody [sic] startin’ out from the same place. So if we’re all gettin’ the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here — we could get the same amount, but you [you are] still going to be that far back behind me. It’s about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”
In October 2020, Elle magazine published an interview with Harris that said: “[Harris] remembers being wheeled through an Oakland, California, civil rights march in a stroller with no straps with her parents and her uncle. At some point, she fell from the stroller (few safety regulations existed for children’s equipment back then), and the adults, caught up in the rapture of protest, just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and doubled back, she was understandably upset. ‘My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing,’ Harris says, ‘and she’s like, Baby, what do you want? What do you need? And I just looked at her and I said, Fweedom.’” Harris also told this same story in a televised C-SPAN-2 interview.
As Breitbart News noted, Harris’t story bore a striking resemblance to a January 1965 Playboy interview with Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he recalled, “I never will forget a moment in Birmingham when a white policeman accosted a little Negro girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother. ‘What do you want?’ the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked him straight in the eye and answered, ‘Fee-dom.’”
In a presidential election that was marred by enormous amounts of fraud and a host of unconstitutional changes to state election laws, the Biden-Harris ticket won the election of November 2020. Kamala Harris was now Vice President of the United States.
In December 2020, Harris made a video in which she wished Americans a happy Kwanzaa holiday and shared, in particular, her personal memories of celebrating Kwanzaa with her family as a child. Said Harris: “Happy holidays, everyone. I wanted to take a moment to send my warmest wishes to everyone celebrating Kwanzaa. Like so many other holidays, we [the Harris family] will be celebrating Kwanzaa a little differently this season, in our home. We’ll be doing it over Zoom [because of the coronavirus pandemic that was still actively infecting many people]. You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa. Every year, our family, and our extended family, we would gather around, across multiple generations, and we’d tell stories […] and we would light the candles, and of course afterwards we would have a beautiful meal. And of course there was always a discussion of the seven principles [of Kwanzaa]. […]”
Harris did not mention that the seven principles of Kwanzaa mirrored precisely the principles that were embraced by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a pro-Marxist, revolutionary terrorist organization of the 1970s. Nor did she mention that the founder of Kwanzaa was Maulana Karenga, a Marxist activist, black nationalist, and Black Power militant who in 1971 was arrested for brutally assaulting and torturing two women.
Vis-a-vis Harris’ claim that she had celebrated Kwanzaa from her youngest days as a child, podcaster Michael Knowles, in response to the video, pointed out that during Harris’ youth: “[Kwanzaa] was only celebrated, or even recognized, in Black Power circles … like the Black Power movement, the Black Panthers. Something tells me that Kamala Harris was not running in those circles, with her Indian mother and her Jamaican father, a Jamaican father who has called his daughter a liar before.”
On March 19, 2021, Harris and President Biden traveled to Atlanta to show solidarity with the city’s Asian American community, in the aftermath of an incident where a white man had shot and killed six local Asian women as well as two white people. Though there was no evidence that the shootings had been racially motivated, Harris said in a speech at Emory University: “Racism is real in America and it has always been. Xenophobia is real in America and always has been. Sexism, too.” She also suggested that former President Trump was to blame for an alleged spike in anti-Asian crimes that had occurred in the U.S. during 2020: “For the last year, we’ve had people in positions of incredible power scapegoating Asian Americans, people with the biggest pulpits, spreading this kind of hate.”
Harris revisited these themes in a May 17, 2022 speech at the White House Rose Garden, where she said: “Racism is real in America. It has always been. Xenophobia is real in America. It has always been. Sexism too.”
On March 24, 2021, President Biden announced that he was appointing Vice President Harris to lead the government’s efforts to stem the massive flow of illegal migrants who had been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since the very start of the Biden presidency. A senior administration official said that Harris’ duties would focus on “two tracks”: (a) slowing the current flow of migrants, and (b) devising a long-term strategy to address the “root causes” of the migration.
But Harris subsequently did nothing to indicate that she was serious about the border duties she ostensibly had been assigned. She did not visit the southern border even once until June 25, 2021 — ninety-three days after her March 24 appointment by Biden. That visit came after more than 50 House Republicans demanded on June 20 that Biden replace Harris because she had done nothing to secure the wide-open border. Also on June 20 — before Harris had made any plans to go to the border — former President Donald Trump announced that he himself would be making an official visit to the border on June 30 along with Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
On April 12, 2021, President Biden posted a Twitter message stating that whenever he had to make any important political decisions, Harris was always present with him — as “the last voice in the room.” ”When I served as Vice President,” Biden wrote in the tweet, “I asked to be the last person with the President [Obama] before big decisions were made — and @VP [Harris] is providing the same counsel to me. She’s the last voice in the room and never fails to speak the truth as we work to build our nation back better.”
During an April 25, 2021 interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Harris boasted that she indeed had been the “last person in the room” with President Biden when he made his then-recent decision to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops and American civilians from Afghanistan by September 11 — a target date that would subsequently be changed to August 31. The Biden-Harris administration’s objective was to end America’s 20-year presence in that nation — a presence that had begun shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders had helped facilitate. When the withdrawal from Afghanistan was eventually carried out in August 2021, it was an infamously chaotic catastrophe.
Some additional examples of how Biden and Harris were always in agreement on policy matters:
In an April 27, 2021 video conference call with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, Harris stated that violence against minority groups in Central America was a “root cause” of the migration flood that was overwhelming the U.S. southern border. She said:
“There are also longstanding issues that are often called the ‘root causes’ of immigration. We are looking at the issue of poverty and the lack, therefore, of economic opportunities; the issue of extreme weather conditions and the lack of climate adaptation; as well as corruption and the lack of good governance; and violence against women, Indigenous people, LGBTQ people, and Afro-descendants.”
Harris then explained that in order to address these problems as well as the border crisis, the U.S. would work to improve living conditions for Guatemala: “We want to work with you to address both the acute causes as well as the root causes in a way that will bring hope to the people of Guatemala that there will be an opportunity for them if they stay at home.”
Speaking at the Washington Conference on the Americas in early May 2021, Vice President Harris said that while people in Central America were leaving their countries “at an alarming rate” and trying to come to the U.S., “people in the region do not want to leave their homes,” and that they were leaving “only when they feel they must.” Such migrants, added Harris, were motivated mainly by a loss of hope in the possibility that living conditions would improve in their homelands. “So we want to help,” she said. “Our administration wants to help. We want to pick back up the kind of work President Joe Biden started when he was vice president. We want to help people find hope at home. And so we are focused on addressing both the acute factors and the root causes of migration. And I believe this is an important distinction. We must focus on both. First: the acute factors. The catastrophes, that are causing people to leave right now. The hurricanes, the drought, and the extreme food insecurity. And then there are the long standing issues. The root causes: And I’m thinking of corruption, violence, and poverty, the lack of economic opportunity, the lack of climate adaptation and climate resilience, the lack of good governance.”
Among the key problems in the region, Harris elaborated, were: “violence in the Northern Triangle, violence against Afro-descendants, violence against indigenous people, violence against LGBTQ people, violence against young people, violence against women.” She pledged that the U.S. would: (a) seek to provide “alternatives to gang recruitment”; (b) “deliver food, shelter, water and sanitation;” and (c) “work with [women farmers especially] to plant drought resilient crops” as a means of combating the effects of droughts.
Harris Praises Texas Democrats Who Fled Their State to Derail Republican Election-Integrity Legislation
On July 12, 2021, at least 51 of the 67 Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives fled their state and flew to Washington, D.C., so as to deny Republicans the quorum needed to pass new voter-integrity bills to which the Democrats objected. The proposed legislation called for such things as: (a) new identification requirements for people voting by mail, and (b) prohibitions barring local election officials from sending vote-by-mail applications to anyone who had not requested one.
Harris praised the Democrats who left the state, saying: “I applaud them standing for the rights of all Americans and all Texans to express their voice through their vote, unencumbered.” “I will say that they are leaders who are marching in the path that so many others before did when they fought and many died for our right to vote,” the vice president added.
During the week of September 19, 2021 – by which time more than 14,000 Haitians had recently gathered under a bridge on the banks of the Rio Grande in hopes of gaining approval for asylum in the U.S. — the media were abuzz with accusations claiming that Border Patrol agents were using whips to prevent those Haitians from illegally entering the United States. Specifically, the controversy was sparked by photographs of agents mounted on horseback attempting to corral incoming migrants. Some photos showed the agents twirling their reins to coax the horses in certain directions. Many critics misidentified the reins as whips that were being used to harm and degrade the migrants.
Paul Ratje, the photographer responsible for the images in question, said that neither he nor any of his colleagues had seen Border Patrol agents whipping anyone. “Some of the Haitian men started running, trying to go around the horses, and that’s when the whole thing happened,” Ratje explained. “I never saw them whip anyone. The agent was swinging the reins that to some can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the pictures.”
Rowdy Ballard — who, prior to retiring, had spent 17 years on horseback for the Border Patrol and had served 6 years as the horse coordinator for Del Rio, Texas — told Fox News: “We all have the same message: we don’t carry whips.” Explaining that the Border Patrol does not train its agents to whip illegal migrants, and that those agents hardly ever place their hands on people “unless they’re not compliant,” Ballard said on America’s Newsroom: “It was a tense situation. The horses were a little reluctant to do the job that the agents were asking… twirling the reins was just another tool they used to get the horses to do what they’re asking.”
Notwithstanding the fact that the “whipping” claims were entirely false, the Biden Administration quickly announced that: (a) horse patrols at the border would be immediately suspended pending further investigation of the charges, and (b) the specific agents in the aforementioned photos would remain on administrative duty while the probe was being conducted. Biden’s announcement prompted Rowdy Ballard to say: “The horse is a great tool we’ve used [at the Border Patrol] for almost 100 years now. And with that going, it’s going to be harder to patrol that area.”
Vice President Harris said she was “outraged” by the “horrible and deeply troubling” images shown in the photos. “Human beings should not be treated that way,” she elaborated, “and as we all know, it also evoked images of some of the worst moments of our history where that kind of behavior has been used against the indigenous people of our country, has been used against African Americans during times of slavery.”
At the National Congress of American Indians’ 78th Annual Convention on October 12, 2021 — the day after Columbus Day — Harris delivered a virtual address in which she said: “Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for Tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Native communities today.” Lamenting that “Native Americans are more likely to live in poverty, to be unemployed, and often struggle to get quality healthcare and to find affordable housing,” Harris claimed that President Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar “Build Back Better” agenda, if passed into law, would have “a significant [positive] impact on Indian Country.”
In October 2021, Harris appeared in a video clearly endorsing Democrat Terry McAuliffe to be elected as Virginia’s next governor in the upcoming November 2 gubernatorial race. The video was played in hundreds of black churches, in violation of the Johnson Amendment — a 1954 statute named for its principal sponsor, then-Senator Lyndon Johnson — which explicitly prohibits tax-exempt churches from engaging in the direct or indirect promotion of any political candidate’s bid for election to public office.
On November 16, 2020, Republican Senator Josh Hawley questioned Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about what Vice President Harris had been doing during her nearly eight months as the purported leader of the Biden administration’s response to mass illegal migration across America’s southern border. The following New York Post report provides details of how a portion of their exchange went:
“Do you report to her?” Hawley asked Mayorkas.
“Senator, I report to the vice president and the president, and your question misstates the facts,” the DHS secretary responded. “The president did not appoint the vice president to be the border czar. He asked her to lead the effort in addressing the root causes of irregular migration. Those are two very different things.”
“Ah, I see,” Hawley answered. “So is she working closely with you on that important endeavor? How often do you meet with her?”
“I am certainly in close touch with the vice president,” Mayorkas said.
“How often do you meet on this subject?” Hawley pressed.
“I’ve met with the vice president more than a handful of times,” answered Mayorkas, who was confirmed as DHS secretary in February.
”More than a handful? Well, so what’s that, six or seven times in the last year?” Hawley said.
“Well, no, first of all, I have not been in office for a year, senator,” said Mayorkas before repeating that he was in “close touch” with Harris.
When Hawley asked Mayorkas if the vice president had traveled to the border with him, the DHS chief recalled a late June visit by Harris to El Paso, Texas. The vice president received criticism for the trip from Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who pointed out at the time that Harris was going nowhere near the epicenter of the ongoing crisis.
“And has she been part of your policies, your decision to end the ‘Remain in Mexico‘ policy, to end the public charge rule, to change the ICE guidance, has she been part of those decisions?” asked Hawley.
“I have not consulted with the vice president directly about those policies,” Mayorkas admitted.
“So what is she doing, exactly?” the Missourian asked. “You said she’s not the borders czar. That’s not her role. We’re wrong about that. She’s not doing anything like that. She’s doing something very different, is what your testimony is, but you’re not actually consulting with her on any policy. So what is it that she’s doing, exactly?”
“Senator, as I have repeatedly testified, she is focused on addressing the root causes of irregular migration in the context of the migration channels,” Mayorkas responded.
“How’s that been going?” snarked Hawley.
“That is a — We are advancing considerably, and in fact, I am contributing to that effort,” said Mayorkas, who cited trips he had made to meet with officials in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and other countries.
“And those efforts are working? That’s been successful?” Hawley asked.
“This is a process that takes time and delivers an enduring solution,” Mayorkas insisted.
On August 25, 2020 — during a violent Black Lives Matter/Antifa riot which followed an incident where a white Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer had shot and permanently disabled a knife-wielding black criminal named Jacob Blake — Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old white youth from Antioch, Illinois, drove to Kenosha, where his father resided, with the intent of: (a) helping to prevent further vandalism in that city, and (b) providing medical aid to people injured in the melee. At the scene of the unrest, Rittenhouse was armed with a semi-automatic rifle that had been purchased (with his money) and held for him by his friend Dominick Black, a resident of Kenosha. When white rioter and Kenosha resident Joseph Rosenbaum — who had spent 15 years in prison for multiple child molestation convictions that included anal rape — chased Rittenhouse, threatened to kill him, and tried to take away his rifle, Rittenhouse fatally shot Rosenbaum. While subsequently being chased by a crowd of approximately a dozen rioters, Rittenhouse ran down a street toward police vehicles, in hopes that the officers might protect him from his pursuers. But the fleeing Rittenhouse tripped and fell to the ground, at which point he was struck on the head by a 39-year-old white man who jump-kicked him. Then, while Rittenhouse was still on the ground, white Silver Lake resident Anthony Huber — a domestic abuse repeater and an ex-convict who in 2013 had pleaded guilty to multiple felony counts of strangulation, suffocation, and false imprisonment — struck him on the head and neck with a skateboard and attempted to pull away his rifle, at which point Rittenhouse killed Huber with a single gunshot to the chest. And when white West Allis resident Gaige Grosskreutz — who had a long arrest history that included multiple misdemeanors and felonies — then approached the fallen Rittenhouse and pointed a handgun directly at him, Rittenhouse shot him once in the right arm, wounding but not killing the man. Rittenhouse was subsequently tried on six criminal charges which included homicide, reckless endangerment, and possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under the age of 18. A large number of leftists portrayed him as a racist, Trump-supporting white vigilante who had recklessly fired his gun at “social justice” and “racial justice” demonstrators in Kenosha.
After a jury found Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts on November 19, 2021, Harris said: “The verdict really speaks for itself. As many of you know, I’ve spent the majority of my career working to make the criminal justice system more equitable, and clearly there’s a lot more to do.”
During a 2021 appearance at George Mason University, Vice President Harris nodded along as a student ranted that American funding for Israel’s anti-missile defense system, the Iron Dome, “hurts my heart because it’s an ethnic genocide.” Harris then assured the student that “your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth, should not be suppressed.”
In a January 6, 2022 speech on Capitol Hill, Vice President Harris spoke at length in an event commemorating the first anniversary of the temporary occupation of the U.S. Capitol by several hundred Trump supporters one year earlier. Below is a partial transcript of Harris’ remarks, which were clearly aimed at setting the stage for an already-announced Democrat plan to pass legislation — particularly The For The People Act — that would radically change how elections in the United States would be run:
“Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them, where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault. Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars but a place in our collective memory: Dec. 7, 1941, Sept. 11, 2001, and Jan. 6, 2021.
“On that day, I was not only vice president-elect, I was also a U.S. senator. And I was here at the Capitol that morning, at a classified hearing with fellow members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Hours later, the gates of the Capitol were breached. I had left, but my thoughts immediately turned, not only to my colleagues but to my staff, who had been forced to seek refuge in our office, converting filing cabinets into barricades.
“What the extremists who roamed these halls targeted was not only the lives of elected leaders. What they sought to degrade and destroy was not only a building, hallowed as it is. What they were assaulting were the institutions, the values, the ideals that generations of Americans have marched, picketed and shed blood to establish and defend.
“On Jan. 6, we all saw what our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful. The lawlessness, the violence, the chaos. What was at stake then and now is the right to have our future decided, the way the Constitution describes it, by we the people, all the people.
“We cannot let our future be decided by those bent on silencing our voices, overturning our votes and peddling lies and misinformation, by some radical faction that may be newly resurgent, but whose roots run old and deep.
“When I meet with young people, they often ask about the state of our democracy, about Jan. 6. And what I tell them is Jan. 6 reflects the dual nature of democracy, its fragility and its strength.
“You see, the strength of democracy is the rule of law. The strength of democracy is the principle that everyone should be treated equally. That elections should be free and fair. That corruption should be given no quarter.
“The strength of democracy is that it empowers the people. And the fragility of democracy is this, that if we are not vigilant if we do not defend it, democracy simply will not stand. It will falter and fail.
“The violent assault that took place here, the very fact of how close we came to an election overturned, that reflects the fragility of democracy. […]
“You know, I wonder, how will Jan. 6 come to be remembered in the years ahead? Will it be remembered as a moment that accelerated the unraveling of the oldest, greatest democracy in the world? Or a moment when we decided to secure and strengthen our democracy for generations to come?
“The American spirit is being tested. The answer to whether we will meet that test resides where it always has resided in our country, with you, the people. And the work ahead will not be easy. Here in this very building, a decision will be made about whether we uphold the right to vote, and ensure free and fair elections. Let’s be clear. We must pass voting rights bills that are now before the Senate, and the American people must also do something more. We cannot sit on the sidelines, we must unite in defense of our democracy.
[Quoting the Constitution:] “In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and to our prosperity [sic], and posterity.”
During a March 1, 2022 appearance on the syndicated “Morning Hustle” radio program, Harris was asked by co-host Headkrack to explain the conflict “in layman’s terms for people who don’t understand what’s going on and how can this directly affect the people of the United States.” Speaking slowly, Harris replied: “So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.”
At a March 7, 2022 “Clean Transit” event, Harris told those in attendance:
“And again … all over our country, communities that have been left out and left behind, and where pollution from heavy-duty trucks and buses has made the air poisonous to breathe. And this pollution is also, of course, accelerating the climate crisis, threatening the future not just of our communities but of the entire world. And this is not how it has to be.
“Imagine a future: The freight trucks that deliver bread and milk to our grocery store shelves and the buses that take children to school and parents to work; imagine all the heavy-duty vehicles that keep our supply lines strong and allow our economy to grow — imagine that they produced zero emissions. Well, you all imagined it. That’s why we’re here today — because we have the ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been, and then to make the possible actually happen.”
Speaking at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on April 18, 2022, Harris announced that the Biden administration — in an effort to make demilitarization an “international norm for responsible behavior in space” — had decided to unilaterally terminate America’s testing of anti-satellite missiles, a practice known to generate debris in outer space. Said Harris in her remarks:
Harris also explained that the Biden administration wanted America’s Space Force to “protect our interests in space,” but not in a way that violates “international norms and rules.” Those norms and rules, she added, give people a “sense of order and stability,” whether “it is the way we interact with our colleagues at work or the way nations interact with each other.” However, as conservative columnist Daniel Greenfield noted shortly after Harris’ remarks: “ASAT [anti-satellite] weapons don’t actually violate any international laws. That’s why protests against China and Russia’s weapons tests have previously fallen on deaf ears. The two totalitarian countries aren’t breaking any rules or norms by testing and deploying ASAT weapons from the ground that target orbital objects. We could legally develop and deploy ASAT weapons ourselves.”
While the Biden-Harris administration was declaring the end of America’s ASAT testing, the counterpart ASAT-testing programs of China, India, and Russia would continue unabated.
On May 2, 2022, Politico reported that an unidentified individual had leaked an initial draft majority opinion, written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in which the Court had decided to strike down the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. “No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending,” said Politico. Whereas Roe had guaranteed federal constitutional protections for abortion rights, the new ruling would return responsibility for those rights to each individual state. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote in his opinion, adding: “We hold that Roe and Casey [a 1992 decision that largely reaffirmed the rights set forth in Roe] must be overruled. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” In response to the Court’s decision, an outraged Harris issued the following remarks:
During a June 28, 2022 interview, CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash asked Harris: “There is a lot of anxiety about the economy. People’s wallets are really being hurt right now. Gas prices, as you well know, they’re still near about $5 a gallon. The president said he wanted a gas tax holiday. It doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere in Congress. What else is in your toolbox? Is there anything else you can do to help bring down the cost of gas?”
Harris responded, “Well, first of all, let’s just say that this is a very real issue, and we have to do something about it and it’s one of our highest priorities as an administration. So, there is the piece that is about gas and bringing down the cost of gas, which, in large part, has exploded because of Putin’s war on Ukraine. The president [Biden] is in Europe right now, talking, as he has been, to bring our allies and partners together so we can have a common defense around what we believe to be democratic principles, around sovereignty and territorial integrity. But there are other things we need to do. And so, for example, bringing down the cost of prescription drugs. One of — we are fighting to say something like insulin should cost no more than $35 a month. We are fighting to say that we should have affordable child care so that families — working families shouldn’t pay more than 7% of their income in child care.”
During a visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone on September 29, 2022, Harris said: “The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea. And it is an alliance that is strong and enduring.”
During a December 19, 2022 appearance on NPR‘s All Things Considered, Harris stated that social media companies needed to work with the government to minimize the incidence of misinformation and disinformation, and that they should “work with us who are concerned about national security” in order to “ensure there is not a manipulation that is allowed or overlooked.” “So, what I would say about any social media site,” added Harris, “is this: I fully expect and would require that leaders in that sector cooperate and work with us who are concerned about national security and concerned about upholding and protecting our democracy to do everything in their power to ensure that there is not a manipulation that is allowed or overlooked that is done with the intention of upending the security of our democracy and our nation.”
Harris delivered a pro-abortion speech in Tallahassee, Florida on January 22, 2023 – the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and also the day of the annual (anti-abortion) March for Life rally in Washington, D.C. In her address, the vice president referenced the Declaration of Independence but omitted any mention of that document’s explicit guarantee of the “unalienable right” to the “Life” that the “Creator” had gifted as a birthright to all human beings. Harris’ key omissions were in the following remarks that she made:
“America is a promise. It is a promise of freedom and liberty—not for some, but for all. A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Be clear. These rights were not bestowed upon us. They belong to us as Americans.”
Below is a longer excerpt from Harris’ speech:
“So we are here together because we collectively believe and know America is a promise. America is a promise. It is a promise of freedom and liberty — not for some, but for all. A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Be clear. These rights were not bestowed upon us. They belong to us as Americans. […]
“And since our founding, we have then been on a march forward to fully realize our promise to complete the unfinished work to secure freedom and liberty for all.
“Now, these outcomes will not be inevitable. They will not just happen. It takes steadfast determination and dedication. The kind of determination and dedication possessed by some of our greatest patriots: those Americans who fought a Civil War to end the sin of slavery — who organized at Seneca Falls to secure a woman’s right to vote — — who launched the Freedom Rides to advance civil rights — and spoke out at the Stonewall Inn to defend human rights. In each of these movements, those leaders expanded rights which then advanced the cause of freedom and liberty.
“And 50 years ago today, so did those who won a fight in the United States Supreme Court to recognize the fundamental constitutional right of a woman to make decisions about her own body — not the government. For nearly 50 years, Americans relied on the rights that Roe protected. Today, however, on what would have been its 50th anniversary, we speak of the Roe decision in the past tense — because, last June, the United States Supreme Court took away that constitutional right — a fundamental right, a basic freedom — from the people of America — from the women of America.
“The Court’s action has meant already that many dedicated doctors and nurses now lose their ability to care for their patients, that providers risk going to jail just for doing their job, and that patients are denied critical care and even fear that they will be punished simply for seeking care.
“It has meant that a 10-year-old child in Ohio who was sexually assaulted and became pregnant had to leave her home — had to leave her home state and travel to another to receive care. It has meant that the doctor who treated her faced death threats and efforts to take away her medical license.
“And for Amanda, a 35-year-old woman in Texas, it meant, in the midst of a miscarriage, she was denied treatment three times in three days at an emergency room because of that state’s abortion ban. And only after she developed sepsis, an infection that almost killed her, did the hospital finally admit her. […]
“The consequences of the Supreme Court’s ruling are not only limited to those who need reproductive care. Other basic healthcare is at risk.
“Consider Emma, a 14-year-old who lives in Arizona. So Emma manages her chronic arthritis with medication that allows her to go to school and live without constant pain. But the medication that helps her can also cause pregnancy loss. So within weeks of the Dobbs decision, her pharmacy initially refused to fill her prescription, afraid that they could be prosecuted under the state’s radical law. […]
“So know this: President Biden and I agree, and we will never back down. We will not back down. And we know — we know this fight will not be won until we secure this right for every American. Congress must pass a bill that protects freedom and liberty. A bill that protects reproductive rights. And President Biden will sign it.”
On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled on 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a case that centered around the question of whether creative businesses had a right to refuse to serve LGBTQ+ customers because of a business owner’s First Amendment free-speech rights. In its 6-3 decision, the Court concluded that an evangelical Christian businesswoman had a right to post a notice that said, “no [wedding websites] will be sold if they will be used for gay marriages.”
In response to the Court ruling, Harris issued a statement that said:
“All people deserve to live free from discrimination. When you walk into a restaurant, a hotel, or any business open to the public, you are entitled to be served free from discrimination. For years, our nation’s civil rights laws have helped to make that ideal more real. The Supreme Court’s ruling in 303 Creative v. Elenis departs from decades of jurisprudence by creating an exception to protections against discrimination in public accommodations. On the last day of Pride Month, the Supreme Court has paved the way for businesses across our nation to discriminate in the name of ‘free expression’—against the LGBTQI+ community, racial and religious minorities, the disability community, and women.
“At a time when we celebrate hard-won advancements in LGBTQI+ rights, this decision threatens future progress. President Biden and I will continue to rigorously enforce federal anti-discrimination protections and fight for the right of all people to participate equally in our society. And as a crucial part of that fight, we continue to call on Congress to pass the Equality Act.”
“National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia”
At daybreak on Saturday, October 7, 2023 — which was the major Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah — the Islamic terror group Hamas carried out a massive, multi-front, surprise attack against Israel, firing thousands of rockets from Gaza into the Jewish state, while dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the Israeli border in a number of locations by air, land and sea. The attack had been planned in conjunction with officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with agents of three other Iran-sponsored terrorist groups. “In an assault of startling breadth,” reported CBS News, “Hamas gunmen rolled into as many as 22 locations outside the Gaza Strip, including towns and other communities as far as 15 miles from the Gaza border. In some places they gunned down civilians and soldiers as Israel’s military scrambled to muster a response.” By Sunday, October 8, at least 600 Israelis had been killed and 1,800 wounded, making it the deadliest day Israel had seen in decades. Moreover, Hamas took hundreds of Israelis hostage, including dozens who were American citizens, and moved them to the Gaza Strip. The terrorists also paraded Israelis’ mutilated bodies in Gaza, to cheering crowds of Palestinians. By October 19, the official casualty toll in Israel had reached more than 1,400 dead (including at least 32 American) and 4,500 injured.
On November 1, 2023 — after a poll commissioned by the Arab American Institute showed that President Biden’s support among Arab Americans had dropped to 17% since he had voiced support for Israel’s retaliatory war on Hamas — Vice President Harris announced the unveiling of the Biden administration’s new “National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia.” Among her remarks were the following:
“For years, Muslims in America and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks. As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents across America, including the brutal attack of a Palestinian-American woman, who is Muslim, and the killing of her 6-year-old son.”
Harris also said that the Biden plan sought to “protect Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim from hate, bigotry and violence. And to address the concern that some government policies may discriminate against Muslims.”
Republican Senator Tom Cotton criticized the Biden-Harris initiative in a tweet that said: “After the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust and a breakout of pro-Hamas activism on campus, the White House is claiming *Islamophobia* is our top concern.” And Concordia University Professor Gad Saad stated wryly: “According to the [FBI] director, Jews make up 2.4% of the US population but are the targets of 60% of hate crimes. This is why it is apparently important to fight Islamophobia according to the White House.”
Harris’ Stepdaughter Raises Money for “Gaza’s Children”
On November 4, 2023, the New York Post reported that Harris’ stepdaughter, 24-year-old Ella Emhoff — whose father, Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff, is Jewish — used her personal Instagram account to help promote a fundraising drive “supporting urgent relief for Gaza’s children.” The fundraiser, which made no mention of the many Israeli children killed in Hamas’ October 7 attack against the Jewish state, was administered by the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
Scolding Israel for Creating a “Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza
Speaking at a March 3, 2024 commemoration ceremony for the historically significant Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, Harris, as she stepped to the microphone, stated:
“[B]efore I begin today, I must address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza [in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel]. What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating. We have seen reports of families eating leaves or animal feed, women giving birth to malnourished babies with little or no medical care, and children dying from malnutrition and dehydration.
“As I have said many times, too many innocent Palestinians have been killed. And just a few days ago, we saw hungry, desperate people approach aid trucks, simply trying to secure food for their families after weeks of nearly no aid reaching Northern Gaza. And they were met with gunfire and chaos.
“Our hearts break for the victims of that horrific tragedy and for all the innocent people in Gaza who are suffering from what is clearly a humanitarian catastrophe. People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane. And our common humanity compels us to act.
“As President Joe Biden said on Friday, the United States is committed to urgently get more lifesaving assistance to innocent Palestinians in need. Yesterday, the Department of Defense carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian assistance, and the United States will continue these airdrops. And we will work on a new route by sea to deliver aid.
“And the Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses. They must open new border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid. They must ensure humanitarian personnel, sites, and convoys are not targeted. And they must work to restore basic services and promote order in Gaza so more food, water, and fuel can reach those in need.”
Harris then delivered a few formal remarks about Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas, which were quickly contradicted by her call for “an immediate ceasefire — for at least the next six weeks”:
“As I have said repeatedly since October 7th, Israel has a right to defend itself. And President Joe Biden and I are unwavering in our commitment to Israel’s security. Hamas cannot control Gaza, and the threat Hamas poses to the people of Israel must be eliminated. Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization that has vowed to repeat October 7th again and again until Israel is annihilated. Hamas has shown no regard for innocent life, including for the people of Gaza, who have suffered under its rule for almost two decades. And Hamas still holds dozens of hostages, for nearly 150 days now — innocent men and women, including American citizens, who were brutally taken from their homes and from a concert. I will repeat: The threat of — Hamas poses to the people of Israel must be eliminated.
“And given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire — for at least the next six weeks, which is what is currently on the table. This will get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in. This would allow us to build something more enduring to ensure Israel is more secure and to respect the right of the Palestinian people to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.
“Hamas claims it wants a ceasefire. Well, there is a deal on the table. And as we have said, Hamas needs to agree to that deal. Let’s get a ceasefire. Let’s reunite the hostages with their families. And let’s provide immediate relief to the people of Gaza.”
Ramadan Message Lamenting the “Pain” & “Suffering” of Palestinians in Gaza
On March 10, 2024, Harris issued the following statement to mark the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a statement focusing heavily on the “pain” and “suffering” that Palestinians in Gaza were experiencing as a result of Israel’s military operations against Hamas in that region:
“I know that there is great pain in the community. What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating. We pray that the blessings, reflections, and community of this month offer some solace. President Biden and I will continue to work to ease the suffering in Gaza and support the right of the Palestinian people to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.”
Harris Mourns Palestinians Who Were Killed During IDF Mission to Rescue Israeli Captives Taken by Hamas
During a June 8, 2024 speech to the Michigan Democratic Party in Detroit, Harris addressed an incident that had taken place earlier that day, in which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel Police, and Israel Security Agency (ISA) had rescued four of the 250+ hostages whom Hamas terrorists had taken captive on October 7, 2023. Mourning the numerous Palestinians who had died as collateral damage during the course of the June 8 rescue mission, Harris said: “Before I begin, I just [want to] say a few words about the morning which I know weighs heavily on all of our hearts. On Oct. 7, Hamas committed a brutal massacre of 1,200 innocent people and abducted 250 hostages. Thankfully, four of those hostages were reunited with their families tonight. And we mourn all of the innocent lives that have been lost in Gaza, including those tragically killed today. We have been working every day to bring an end to this conflict in a way that ensures Israel is secure, brings home all hostages, ends ongoing suffering for Palestinian people, and ensures that Palestinians can enjoy their right to self-determination, dignity, and freedom. As President Biden said last week, it is time for this war to end.” (Hamas authorities in Gaza, making no distinction between terrorists and innocent civilians, claimed that more than 270 Palestinians had been killed in the Israeli operation. Israeli forces, by contrast, placed the number at fewer than 100.)
Harris Disrespects Netanyahu & Expresses Sympathy for Palestinians
On July 24, 2024, Harris joined many congressional Democrats in skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, choosing instead to deliver a speech at the national convention of the historically black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis.
The following day, Harris had a 40-minute meeting with Netanyahu. Shortly afterward, she posted a message on X in which she affirmed Israel’s right to self-defense and backed its effort to retrieve the hostages who had been taken captive by Hamas terrorists, but also expressed her hope that “the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza ends [would soon end], and the Palestinian people can exercise their right to freedom, dignity, and self-determination.” Implying also that she accepted the disproven Hamas narrative claiming that the Israeli military operation in Gaza had caused mass civilian casualties and a humanitarian crisis, Harris added: “And as I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu it is time to get this deal done. Let’s get the deal done. So we can get a ceasefire to end the war. Let’s bring the hostages home. And let’s provide much-needed relief to the Palestinian people.” An Israeli official subsequently told The Jerusalem Post, “We hope that [Harris’ post] won’t make it harder to achieve a hostage deal because it gives the appearance of daylight between Israel and the United States.”
Possibility That Harris Will Consider Arms Embargo Against Israel
In a video posted to the social media platform X on August 8, 2024, the founders of the Uncommitted National Movement (UNM) — the entity that had recently mobilized more than 100,000 people to withhold their votes from President Biden in the Michigan Democrat primary because of what they perceived to be his excessive support for Israel — claimed that Harris had “expressed an openness” to meeting with them to discuss the possibility of imposing an arms embargo against the Jewish state. “I had a moment yesterday to briefly engage with VP Kamala Harris and Governor [and vice presidential running mate] Tim Walz in the photo lineup,” said UNM founder Layla Elabed. “I said, ‘Michigan voters right now want a way to support you, but we can’t do that without a policy change that saves lives in Gaza right now… Will you meet with us to talk about an arms embargo?” Elabed then reported that Harris agreed to meet with UNM.
Blaming Israel for Palestinian Civilian Deaths
In a brief exchange with reporters on August 10, 2024, Harris was asked to comment on an Israeli airstrike earlier that day, which had been aimed at terrorists in a Hamas command-and-control center situated inside a mosque in a Gaza school compound. The placement of that Hamas facility was consistent with Hamas’ longstanding pattern of placing fighters and weaponry within or under mosques, schools, hospitals, and other civilian buildings — so that Israeli military strikes that may damage or destroy such places will cause maximum civilian casualties, which in turn can be fraudulently exploited as evidence of Israel’s barbarism. According to the Hamas-controlled health authorities in Gaza, “more than 80” Gazans were killed in the August 10 airstrike. Unquestioningly accepting those figures, which made no distinction between civilian and terrorist deaths, Harris lamented that “there are far too many civilians who have been killed” in Gaza. “I mean, Israel has a right to go after the terrorists that are Hamas,” she explained. “But as I have said many, many times, they also have, I believe, an important responsibility to avoid civilian casualties.”
Dershowitz: Harris Is “Saying There Are Fine People on Both Sides”
During a November 4, 2024 interview on Newsmax TV, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz criticized Harris for running presidential campaign ads in which her remarks regarding the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023 were tailored differently depending upon which audience was being targeted. Said Dershowitz:
“Well, she basically is saying there are fine people on both sides of what happened on October 7th. She has praised some of the protesters who have called Israel’s response ‘genocide.’ It’s like saying there are fine people on the side of 9/11. No, there aren’t. There are terrorists, and there are democracies. And she has to give the same message in Michigan as she does in Pennsylvania, and she risks losing everybody on the ground that she’s a hypocrite. And she has given messages out of all sides of her mouth on so many issues. But on this issue, it’s so important, and she doesn’t have the courage to stand up. And [VP running mate Tim] Walz has been much worse. He has pandered to the protesters in ways that are completely unacceptable.
“What both of them should have done is to say, look, you have the right to your bigotry, you have the right to your horrible, false statements. I will defend your right. But you’re wrong about saying it, you’re wrong. This is not a two-sided issue. The attacks came from Hamas. Israel is doing everything in its power to avoid civilian casualties. Hamas — according to a message … by [the late Hamas chairman Yahya Ibrahim Hassan] Sinwar — said he wants Israel to kill more Gazan civilians so that their reputation around the world will suffer and they’ll be pressured into coming to a resolution that favors Hamas. So, Gaza knows — Hamas knows what it’s doing. And every single death, every single death in Gaza is the fault of Hamas for starting it and for hiding behind human shields. And that’s what the American policy should be.”
Abortion
Public Funding for Abortions:
Advocating the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which since 1976 had barred the use of public money to fund abortions, Senator Harris in 2019 said that “no woman’s access to reproductive health care should be based on how much money she has.”
In 2019, then-Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden, who boasted that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, announced that the Hyde Amendment “can’t stay” because “times have changed.”
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris announced a “Medicare-for-All” plan that would cover comprehensive abortion services for all women.
The official Democratic Party Platform of 2020 stated: “We will repeal the Hyde Amendment, and protect and codify the right to reproductive freedom.”
Thwarting Pro-Life Legislation in Conservative States:
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris said that her Medicare-for-All plan would establish a list of politically conservative states that would be required to get pre-approval from the Justice Department before they would be permitted to pass any pro-life legislation.
Opposed to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act:
In 2020, Senator Harris, along with all but two of her fellow Senate Democrats, opposed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, legislation designed to prevent the performance of abortions starting at 20 weeks after conception — at which time, according to scientific evidence, in-utero babies can feel pain. The bill allowed exceptions for abortions deemed necessary in order to protect the life or health of the mother, or where the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.
Infanticide for Babies Who Survive Abortions:
During her 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Harris opposed legislation that would have compelled doctors to provide, for infants who survived abortions, the same degree of care as would normally be given to any infant of the same gestational age who was born in a non-abortion setting. Harris’s position was consistent with that of her party at large. Indeed, House Republicans in January 2023 introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which stipulated that in cases where a baby somehow managed to survive an attempted abortion procedure, medical practitioners would be required to try to preserve its life. When the bill came up for a vote, just 1 Democrat supported it while 210 opposed it. Republicans, by contrast, supported the bill unanimously, 219 to 0.
Suing Texas Over “Fetal Heartbeat” Law:
On September 8, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration sued the state of Texas over its recently enacted “Heartbeat Act,” which prohibited physicians from performing or inducing an abortion after a fetal heartbeat had been detected.
Outraged by Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade:
On May 2, 2022, Politico reported that a leaked draft majority opinion, written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, indicated that the Court had decided to strike down the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and to return the regulation of abortion rights to each individual state. In response, an outraged VP Harris said that “the rights of women are under attack,” and that “opponents of Roe want to punish women and take away their rights to make decisions about their own bodies.”
Forcing Doctors to Perform Abortions Even if They Have Moral Objections:
On July 28, 2022, the National Catholic Register reported: “The Biden [and Harris] administration proposed a new rule this week that legal experts say, if finalized, would force hospitals and doctors to perform gender-transition surgeries and abortions,” and “would reverse Trump-era conscience protections which sought to allow medical professionals to opt out of performing procedures against their beliefs.”
Omitting the Declaration’s Guarantee of Right to “Life”:
VP Harris delivered a pro-abortion speech on January 22, 2023, wherein she referenced the Declaration of Independence but omitted any mention of that document’s explicit guarantee of the “unalienable right” to the “Life” that the “Creator” had gifted to all human beings. Harris’ words were as follows: “America is a promise…. A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Forcing Pro-Lifers to Pay for Abortions:
On March 22, 2023, LifeNews.com reported that the Biden-Harris administration was “trying to strip away the rights” of employers to refuse to comply – because of their own moral concerns — with a government mandate requiring businesses, under the terms of Obamacare, to offer their workers health-insurance plans that would cover the costs of abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilization.
Affirmative Action
Opposed the 2023 Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action:
In June 2023, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action – i.e., race preferences — for college admissions. At issue was the fact that Asians in particular, but whites as well, were being discriminated against in the admissions policies of schools like Harvard and the University of North Carolina. For example, among mid-range Harvard University applicants – those in the 5th and 6th academic deciles — blacks were 3.8 times more likely than whites, and 11.8 times more likely than Asians, to be admitted. This was a continuation of the type of extreme discrimination that had been taking place in academia for decades. When the Court made its ruling, VP Harris expressed her “deep disappointment” and issued a statement that said: “Today’s Supreme Court decision … is a step backward for our nation. It rolls back long-established precedent and will make it more difficult for students from underrepresented backgrounds to have access to opportunities that will help them fulfill their full potential.”
In a separate venue, Harris said: “[T]his is now a moment where the Court has not fully underst[ood] the importance of equal opportunity for the people of our country, and it is in so very many ways a denial of opportunity. And … it is a complete misnomer to suggest this is about ‘colorblind,’ when, in fact, it is about being blind to history, being blind to data, being blind to empirical evidence about disparities, being blind to the strength that diversity brings to classrooms, to boardrooms.”
Biden Likewise Opposed the 2023 Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action:
Reacting to the June 2023 Supreme Court decision to strike down affirmative action, President Biden, who boasted that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, said: “The court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions, and I strongly, strongly disagree with the court’s decision.” He further asserted that the court which issued this ruling “is not a normal court.” Biden also told MSNBC that the Supreme Court had “done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history.”
Urged Colleges to Defy the Supreme Court Decision:
Despite the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that the use of race-based college admissions policies were unconstitutional, the Civil Rights divisions of the Department of Education and the Biden-Harris Department of Justice together released a guidance on August 14th encouraging universities to circumvent the ruling by considering “ways a student’s background, including experiences linked to their race, have shaped their lives and the unique contributions they can make to campus.”
America: Evil, Racist Empire
A Nation Replete with Racism & Hate:
In a January 27, 2019 presidential campaign speech, Senator Harris asserted that: “Racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia are real in this country. They are age-old forms of hate with new fuel. And we need to speak that truth so we can deal with it.”
On January 21, 2019, Senator Harris said: “[T]oo many unarmed black men and women are killed in America. Too many black and brown Americans are locked up. From mass incarceration to cash bail to policing, our criminal justice system needs drastic repair.”
When launching her 2020 presidential campaign on January 21, 2019, Harris said: “I’m running to fight for an America where no mother or father has to teach their young son that people [police] may stop him, arrest him, chase him, or kill him, because of his race.”
During a presidential campaign stop in February 2019, Sen. Harris said of America: “[W]e are the scene of a crime when it comes to what we did with slavery and Jim Crow and institutionalized racism in this country, and we have to be honest about that.”
When Republican Attorney General Bill Barr stated in 2020 that “I don’t agree that there is systemic racism in police departments generally in this country,” Senator Harris said: “I think that Donald Trump and Bill Barr are spending full time in a different reality. The reality of America today is, what we have seen over generations and frankly since our inception, which is we do have two systems of justice in America.”
On March 19, 2021, Senator Harris said in a speech at Emory University: “Racism is real in America and it has always been. Xenophobia is real in America and always has been. Sexism, too.”
Praising the Anti-American “1619 Project”:
Democrats have largely embraced the tenets of the so-called “1619 Project,” a New York Times creation which has made its way into the curricula of thousands of classrooms nationwide, and whose overarching theme is the claim that America is a racist nation that was born with the original sin of slavery and can never be redeemed. Harris has praised the 1619 Project as “a powerful and necessary reckoning of our history.”
On August 18, 2019, Senator Harris tweeted in support of The 1619 Project: “We must speak this truth: the very foundation of our country was built on the backs of enslaved people.”
Supporter of Renaming Columbus Day as “Indigenous People’s Day”:
During a presidential campaign stop in New Hampshire in 2019, a voter asked Sen. Harris if she was in favor of renaming Columbus Day as “Indigenous People’s Day.” She replied: “Sure, sure. Yeah. And why it matters is to your very point, we have to remember history … we have to remember our history, uncomfortable, to your point about truths, though it may make us.” Emphasizing the importance of addressing the “vestiges of all of that harm,” Harris concluded: “Count me in on support.”
At the National Congress of American Indians’ 78th Annual Convention on October 12, 2021 — the day after Columbus Day — Harris said: “Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for Tribal nations — perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this shameful past, and we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Native communities today.”
Praising Black Lives Matter & Its Message:
Black Lives Matter (BLM) was founded by three openly Marxist revolutionaries in 2013. It is a movement that:
- depicts the U.S. as a nation awash in racism, sexism, and homophobia;
- portrays America as a cesspool of “state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism,” where blacks are routinely targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes”;
- candidly affirms its commitment to identity politics centered on “the global Black family”;
- proclaims its desire to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” and replace it with the socialist ideal of “villages” serving as “extended families” that “collectively care for one another”; and
- detests Israel and the Jewish people.
The anti-police rhetoric of BLM and leftwing political figures like Kamala Harris, coupled with the aggressive, confrontational tactics of BLM agitators, gave rise to a nationwide climate of extreme hostility toward law-enforcement in the wake of the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd – a black man who, shortly after having ingested a fatal dose of fentanyl, died during a physical confrontation with a white police officer in Minneapolis. With an increasingly militant criminal element now feeling emboldened by the anti-police climate, there were dramatic spikes in violent crime and homicide rates in cities across the U.S., along with at least $7 billion in property destruction resulting from BLM-led riots during the summer of 2020.
During a February 21, 2019 interview, Senator Harris praised BLM for its “incredible” and “smart” activism in demanding “change” to a criminal-justice system replete with “bias” and “systemic racism.”
On June 2, 2020, Senator Harris said in a speech: “The reality of it is that the life of a Black person in America historically, and even recently … has never been treated as fully human. And it is time that we come to terms with the fact that America has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has existed in our country. That’s just a fact. And so, the people protesting on the street are protesting understanding that we have yet to fulfill that promise of equal justice under the law. And there is a pain that is present that is being expressed in their constitutional right to march and to shout.”
In that same June 2, 2020 speech, Harris said: “And I can say, with full certainty, that it is time that the leaders in this United States Senate, in this United States Congress, take action to reform a criminal justice system that for far too long, has been informed by systemic racism and by racial bias…. It is time that we say that one should not be subjected to the indignity of being told to get on your knees and put your hands behind your head, simply because you are walking while Black. And it happens every day in America. There’s not a black man I know, be he a relative, a friend, or a coworker, or colleague, who has not been the subject of some form of racial discrimination at the hands of law enforcement, not one I know…. That’s why the people are marching in the streets.”
On June 4, 2020, Cosmopolitan magazine published an opinion piece written by Senator Harris in which she boasted about having “joined thousands of protesters in Washington, D.C. as we marched through the streets to demand justice for George Floyd.” Condemning what she viewed as the intransigent scourge of American racism, Harris wrote: “Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days…. No longer can some wait on the sidelines, hoping for incremental change. In times like this, silence is complicity. It will take each of us to confront the injustices that continue to perpetuate a broken system that has taken countless Black Americans’ lives…. And it’s time for all of us—not just some—to speak out against racism.”
In a June 17, 2020 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Senator Harris stated that the nationwide BLM protests would, and should, continue indefinitely: “They’re not going to stop. This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day…. I am very clear that some of the success we have been able to achieve around criminal justice reform would not have happened in recent years without Black Lives Matter.”
In August 2020, Senator Harris, who had just been named as Joe Biden‘s vice presidential running mate, said, in a reference to the influence that BLM and its allies were having on America: “[W]e’re experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country, demanding change.”
In a September 2020 interview during the NAACP’s national convention, Harris praised the “brilliance” and “impact” of what she characterized as BLM’s very “necessary” protests. “I actually believe that ‘Black Lives Matter’ has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system,” she said.
Supported a Bail Fund to Keep BLM Rioters out of Prison:
Harris publicly supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF), which made bail payments on behalf of many people who were arrested for their participation in the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis and were awaiting trial. In June 2020, the senator tweeted: “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” Thanks in part to Harris’ endorsement, MFF received more than $35 million in donations.
At least 13 staff members of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign made personal donations to the MFF.
A Nation Replete with Racism & Hate:
In a commencement address that he delivered to the black graduates of Howard University on May 13, 2023, President Biden, who boasted that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, declared that “the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.”
Biden charged that “White America” has been too reluctant to acknowledge that “systemic racism” has “been built into every aspect of our system.”
On October 11, 2021, which was Columbus Day, President Biden issued a “A Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day,” in which he said: “For generations, Federal policies systematically sought to assimilate and displace Native people and eradicate Native cultures…. We must never forget the centuries-long campaign of violence, displacement, assimilation, and terror wrought upon Native communities and Tribal Nations throughout our country.”
On February 10, 2021, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that President Biden supported athletes who chose to protest the national anthem at sporting events, characterizing Biden’s position as follows: “[P]art of the pride in our country means recognizing moments where we as a country haven’t lived up to our highest ideals. It means respecting the right of people granted to them in the constitution to peacefully protest.”
A Nation in Need of Transformation:
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden, who boasted that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, stated that:
- “we all have an obligation to do nothing less than change the culture in this country” because it is “a white man’s culture”
- “we can transform this nation … so that [my administration] goes down in history … as one of the most progressive administrations since Roosevelt”
- the coronavirus pandemic was an “incredible opportunity … to fundamentally transform the country”
- America needs to make “revolutionary institutional changes” that “rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country”
Book Bans
Accusing Republicans of Banning Books:
The early 2020s saw an increase in momentum for a parent-led movement aiming to remove, from school libraries and classrooms, books whose content contained explicit sexuality, pornography, transgender themes, the anti-white tenets of Critical Race Theory, and material otherwise inappropriate for young children. In 2023, for example, Florida passed HB 1069, a state law that:
- barred instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in classrooms from pre-K through grade 8
- prevented district school boards from requiring that either personnel or students be referenced with pronouns that did not correspond with their biological sex
- barred the use of classroom materials “alleged to contain pornography or obscene depictions of sexual conduct, as identified in current law”
Many Democrats and their leftist supporters misrepresented such initiatives as “book bans” that prevented students from being exposed to literature that dealt with topics like slavery, the Jim Crow era, and racism.
During a July 21, 2023 address in Florida, VP Harris said: “And what is happening here in Florida? Extremist so-called leaders for months have dared to ban books. Book bans in this year of our Lord 2023.”
In July 2024, Harris told an American Federation of Teachers gathering: “While you teach students about our nation’s past, these extremists attack the freedom to learn and acknowledge our nation’s true and full history … including book bans…. We [Democrats] want to ban assault weapons, and they [Republicans] want to ban books. Can you imagine?”
Criminal Justice
Low Number of Prison Terms Per Arrest:
During Harris’ tenure as San Francisco district attorney (2004-11), the number of prison terms per arrest in San Francisco was California’s lowest — ten times lower than the corresponding rate in San Diego County.
Supported the Release of Thousands of Prisoners:
In August 2024, Douglas Eckenrod, a former deputy director of parole for the California prison system, stated that Attorney General Harris had been a key supporter of Proposition 47, a 2014 California state ballot measure that reduced numerous felony offenses to misdemeanors and thereby caused thousands of prison inmates statewide to be released. “Prop 47 couldn’t happen without the AG’s office support,” said Eckenrod. “Her support of it was literally critical.”
According to Fox News: “Under Prop 47, petty theft of goods valued at under $950 is classified as a misdemeanor, even for multiple offenses. It also took a broad swath of narcotics possession offenses that were previously felonies and converted them to misdemeanors.” The results were disastrous. In February 2015, Breitbart.com reported that since Prop 47’s passage in November 2014, crime in Los Angeles County had risen dramatically: “Compared with the same three-month period a year ago, auto theft is up 20 percent, felonies are up 16 percent, misdemeanors are up 27 percent, and homicides are up 18 percent.”
Massive Increase in California Rapes under AG Harris:
When Harris first ran for California Attorney General in 2010, there were 8,325 rapes statewide that year. By 2016, the corresponding figure was 13,695 — a 64% increase. Conservative columnist and author Daniel Greenfield has provided the following insights vis-a-vis Harris’ terrible track record:
“Kamala Harris … led a rebrand of soft-on-crime policies as ‘smart on crime’. This would also become the title of her book arguing for keeping many criminals out of prison. Among other things, ‘smart on crime’ meant cutting quick and easy plea deals while working as the DA in San Francisco to maintain the appearance of the high conviction rates that she would cite when running for attorney general. The plea deals that her office later cut statewide … cooked statistics by raising conviction rates and lowering prison populations to create the illusion that pro-crime policies worked…. By [2020], arrest rates [in California] had fallen to their lowest point since 1969 while violent crime soared.”
Supporter of Proposition 57, a Pro-Criminal Ballot Measure:
Attorney General Harris was a strong supporter of Proposition 57, a 2016 California ballot measure that:
- allowed the parole board to release “nonviolent” prisoners once they had served the full sentence for their primary criminal offense, and to cancel any extra prison time to which they may have been sentenced for such aggravating circumstances as repeat offenses
- allowed juvenile-court judges to determine whether or not juveniles aged fourteen or older should be prosecuted and sentenced as adults, a decision that theretofore had been solely the province of prosecutors
- authorized the awarding of sentence credits that would reduce the length of convicts’ prison terms if they exhibited good behavior or participated in rehabilitation or education programs
In July 2016, the Fresno Bee published an analysis of Prop 57 that pointed out its lack of clarity in defining exactly what constituted a “violent” crime. For example, Prop 57 limited the definition of rape to “sexual intercourse” by force, violence, extortion or threat, but excluded “dozens of other forms of rape” – e.g., sexual penetration with a foreign object, or of an unconscious or inebriated victim.
Refusal to Bar Sex Offenders from Living Near Schools & Parks:
In 2015, AG Harris chose not to enforce Proposition 83, a measure that California voters had passed overwhelmingly nine years earlier to prevent the state’s 6,000 paroled sex offenders from being allowed to live within 2,000 feet of schools and parks. After the passage of Prop 83, the California Supreme Court ruled that those residency restrictions violated the constitutional rights of sex offenders who lived in that county. But the Court issued no ruling whatsoever on the legality of the restrictions in California’s 57 other counties. Nevertheless, Harris concluded that the restrictions were invalid in those counties as well — and then refused to explain her legal reasoning.
Condoning a Two-Tiered Justice System:
When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2017, Sen. Harris tweeted: “Judge Gorsuch has consistently valued legalisms over real lives. I won’t support his nomination.” As the American Thinker subsequently pointed out: “'[L]egalisms’ (a.k.a. what the law actually says) are the very basis of the rule of law. When [Harris] touts ‘real lives,’ [and] not the law, as the proper basis for SCOTUS rulings, she openly endorses a political system based on favoritism, not the rule of law.”
Opponent of the Death Penalty:
When she campaigned for San Francisco DA in 2003, Harris pledged that she would never pursue capital punishment for any criminal, because she considered it unjust and immoral. During her 2004 inaugural address as DA, she again vowed to “never charge the death penalty” — a promise she kept for all of her seven years in that office.
In March 2019, during her bid for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination, Harris praised California Governor Gavin Newsom for placing a moratorium on the death penalty in his state. Asserting that “the application of the death penalty — a final and irreversible punishment — has been proven to be unequally applied,” Harris called the day of Newsom’s announcement an “important day for justice.”
Also during her 2020 presidential run, Harris’ campaign website said: “Kamala believes the death penalty is immoral, discriminatory, ineffective and a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars.”
In her 2024 presidential campaign, Harris has refused to answer requests that she clarify her current stance on the death penalty.
Restore the Voting Rights of Felons:
In 2019, Sen. Harris advocated for the restoration of voting rights for all felons who had served their criminal sentences.
Voting Rights for Terrorists:
During an April 22, 2019 CNN town hall, host Don Lemon asked Sen. Harris, who was seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, whether “people who are convicted, in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault … should be able to vote” in political elections. Harris replied: “I think we should have that conversation.”
End the Cash Bail System:
In 2019, Sen. Harris promised that if she were to be elected president, she would end cash bail, writing in a memo: “Excessive cash bail disproportionately harms people from low-income communities and communities of color,” thereby “criminalizing poverty.”
Remove Nonviolent Offenses from Criminal Records:
In 2019, Sen. Harris pledged that if she were to be elected president, she would support the automatic removal of “offenses that are not serious or violent” from criminals’ records after five years.
Supporter of Radical Prosecutors Funded by George Soros:
As explained by Charles “Cully” Stimson, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, the year 2015 saw the launch of a “progressive prosecutor” movement financed most heavily by the America-hating leftwing multibillionaire George Soros. This movement is founded upon the premise that the U.S. criminal-justice system is systemically racist to its core and can only be remedied by the wholesale replacement of law-and-order district attorneys with pro-criminal and anti-police alternatives. Says Stimson:
“One of the hallmarks of the rogue prosecutor movement has been its usurpation of the constitutional role of state legislatures. Once elected, rogue prosecutors refuse to prosecute entire categories of crimes that are on the books in their states, justifying their refusal by claiming ‘prosecutorial discretion.’ But … [p]rosecutorial discretion … does not give prosecutors the power to redefine crime and punishment. By refusing to prosecute entire categories of crime, they are in effect repealing criminal statutes—acting in place of the legislature. This is prosecutorial nullification, not discretion.”
Rates of murder and other violent crimes skyrocketed in the cities that elected such “progressive prosecutors.” Nevertheless, in February 2024, Harris voiced her strong support for “progressive prosecutors … who can show what is possible and then show that it works, and show that frankly, it’s not contrary at all to public safety, [but that] in fact, it is a better way.” She was referring, specifically, to prosecutors who had been supported and funded by the leftist billionaire George Soros.
Chose Not to Enforce a Law She Did Not Like:
In 2008, DA Harris was disturbed when California voters approved Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in that state. In December 2010, as she prepared to commence her tenure as California Attorney General, Harris announced that her AG office – in a departure from the custom whereby AGs traditionally defend state laws – would not defend Proposition 8 before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The reason for Harris’ refusal to defend Prop. 8, was that she personally disagreed with it. “It’s well within the authority vested in me as the elected attorney general to use the discretion of my office to make decisions about how we will use our resources and what issue we will weigh in on or not,” she said.
“Adding insult to injury,” noted Tyler O’Neil in PJ Media, “Harris rushed to officiate the first same-sex marriage after a court struck down the will of the people.”
Defunding the Police:
During a June 9, 2020 interview on a New York-based radio program, Sen. Harris voiced her support for the “defund the police” movement that had mushroomed in the aftermath of George Floyd’s recent death and the riots that followed. Objecting to the amount of money that was being devoted to police budgets rather than to community services such as education, housing, and healthcare, Harris made the following remarks:
During a June 8, 2020 appearance on MSNBC, Sen. Harris explicitly called on U.S. cities to scale back their police forces and the funding that they received. “Part of what we have to do here is also look at the militarization of police departments and, and the kind of money that is going to that,” she said. “And we need to demilitarize police departments…. It is outdated and is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety.”
In another June 8, 2020 interview — this time on ABC’s The View — Harris advocated for police funds to be redirected to social service programs. “In many cities in America, over one third of their city budget goes to police,” she lamented. “So, we have to have this conversation. What are we doing? What about the money going to social services? What about the money going to helping people with job training? What about helping with the mental health issues that communities are being plagued with for which we’re putting no resources?”
And in a third June 8, 2020 interview — on ABC’s Good Morning America — Harris praised Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti for his decision to cut the city’s police budget by $150 million and reallocate those dollars to social services. “I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he’s done,” she said.
Drugs:
Supporting Legalized Marijuana Because It Brings “Joy”:
In a February 11, 2019 interview on The Breakfast Club, a New York City-based radio program, Sen. Harris was asked to comment on rumors that she opposed the legalization of marijuana. “That’s not true, she replied, laughing. “Look, I joke about it, I have joked about it. Half my family is from Jamaica, are you kidding me?” Harris, who acknowledged having smoked marijuana in college, was also asked whether she would smoke it again if the federal government were to legalize the drug’s recreational use. She laughed and replied: “Listen, I think it gives a lot of people joy. And we need more joy.”
Legalizing All Illicit Drugs:
In 2019, Sen. Harris filled out an ACLU questionnaire that asked: “Since drug use is better addressed as a public health issue (through treatment and other programming), will you support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use?” In response, Harris checked the “Yes” box and elaborated: “[T]hroughout my career I have supported treating drug addiction as a public health issue, focusing on rehabilitation over incarceration for drug-related offenses.”
Economy:
Historically High Inflation:
On July 13, 2022, PBS.org reported: “Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a new four-decade peak in June … Consumer prices soared 9.1 percent compared with a year earlier,… the biggest yearly increase since 1981, and up from an 8.6 percent jump in May.”
During the Biden-Harris administration’s first 42 months in office, from January 2021 through July 2024, consumer prices in the United Staes increased by 20.2 percent…. This represented the worst inflation record the U.S. had experienced since the Jimmy Carter administration of 1977-1981.
Opposed Trump Tax Cuts:
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said: “Under her plan, she’ll reverse President Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cut for big corporations and the top 1%.”
During the 2020 vice presidential debate, Harris said: “On day one, Joe Biden will repeal that [Trump] tax bill. He’ll get rid of it.” Similarly, at an October 30, 2020 campaign stop in Texas, Harris said to a cheering audience: “I promise you this — as a first order of business, Joe Biden and I are about to work to get rid of that tax cut.”
Harris’s Contributions to Massive Inflation:
In August 2024, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) stated that “much of America’s inflation since 2020 has resulted from” two votes in particular that Harris, as the tiebreaking vote in a 50-50 Senate, cast in favor of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan of 2021 and the so-called Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. “These laws didn’t reduce inflation,” said WSJ. “They caused it. Together, they increased federal spending by more than $3 trillion. A new study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity finds that such a fiscal surprise translates to at least 6% higher consumer prices in an economy the size of the U.S. Therefore, Ms. Harris’s two votes were responsible for at least half of the excess inflation (beyond 2% annually) that occurred between 2020 and 2024.”
“If Ms. Harris had gotten her way fully,” added WSJ, “inflation would have been even worse. While a senator, Ms. Harris introduced in 2020 the Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act, which would have paid most U.S. residents $2,000 a month until three months after the pandemic emergency’s official end. Had that bill become law, payments would have continued through August 2023 and cost an additional $15 trillion. Cumulative inflation would have been more than 50%, rather than 20%, between December 2020 and July 2024.”
Massive Tax Hikes of All Kinds:
As of late August 2024, Harris endorsed the tax policies put forth by President Biden in his most recent budget proposal. These included:
- a 28 percent corporate tax, up from the 21 percent rate that had gone into effect when President Trump in 2017 reduced it from 35 percent to 21 percent
- a 44.6 percent capital gains tax, up from the existing rates of 0%, 15%, and 20%, depending on one’s income level (But on September 5, 2024, the Harris-Walz campaign’s senior national spokesman, Ian Sams, stated that Harris only wanted to raise the capital gains tax rate to 28 percent.)
- a 25 percent tax on unrealized capital gains (The Heritage Foundation, which describes this tax as “likely unconstitutional,” explains: “A capital gain is the profit you make when you sell an investment asset for more than you paid for it. Once that profit is in hand, a tax lawyer would call it ‘realized,’ and the IRS would take its share. If, however, your investment increases in value and you choose not to sell it, you have an ‘unrealized’ capital gain, because the ‘profit’ exists only on paper. Under the Democrats’ proposed tax, the IRS would take its share even if that money isn’t in hand.”)
$15 Minimum Wage:
Most studies of minimum-wage hikes in countries all over the world demonstrate that when governments impose artificially high wage rates on businesses, not only do overall employment rates drop, but young, inexperienced, and low-skilled workers are affected far negatively more than anyone else. An American Enterprise Institute analysis puts it this way: “Artificially raising wages for unskilled workers reduces the demand for those workers at the same time that it increases the number of unskilled workers looking for work, which results in an excess supply of unskilled workers. Period. And another term for an ‘excess supply of unskilled workers’ is an ‘increase in the teenage jobless rate.’”
Nonetheless, Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said: “To raise wages, Kamala will fight to … make a $15 minimum wage the national floor.”
Suddenly Calling for Tax Deduction That Democrats Had Long Opposed:
In early September 2024, Harris, in an effort to curry favor with voters in the upcoming presidential election, proposed that the $5,000 maximum tax deduction which small businesses could claim on their start-up expenses should be increased to $50,000 – an idea that mirrored several earlier Republican bills that Democrats had opposed almost unanimously. In 2018, for example, the House of Representatives had passed a bill seeking to increase the deduction to $20,000 – legislation that was supported by every House Republican as well as the Trump administration, and was rejected by nearly every House Democrat.
Price Controls:
To address inflation, which she blamed chiefly on corporate “greed,” Harris in 2024 proposes top-down government price controls which, if implemented, will only trigger a new round of high inflation. As Joseph Klein explains in FrontPage Magazine:
“Harris proposed a federal ban on ‘price gouging’ by so-called ‘greedy’ food companies and groceries, which would impose price controls on companies that in fact are barely making a profit as it is. Groceries’ average profit margin is 1-3%, hardly enough for anyone with a modicum of common sense to [view] as evidence of price gouging. Nevertheless, Kamala Harris wants federal bureaucrats to decide if the prices that groceries and their food suppliers want to charge for their products are too high and must be blocked by government fiat….
“Such price controls, when tried in the past, have led to disastrous distortions in the economy that caused substantial pain for the average consumer. Producers cut back drastically on production to avoid losses at the capped prices set by the government. When the price controls were temporarily eased to give producers more breathing room, the pent-up demand burst open and pushed prices considerably higher as available supplies of products were not nearly enough to meet the soaring demand.”
Education:
Opponent of Charter Schools & Vouchers:
Charter schools often serve as outstanding alternatives to failing, substandard public schools — particularly in poor urban areas. They operate as schools of choice and are exempt from many state or local regulations related to operation and management.
School voucher programs allow low-income, mostly-minority parents to take the taxpayer money that is normally allocated for their child’s education in a failing, substandard public school, and to use it instead to cover the cost of tuition at a private school of their choice.
Harris — in accord with the official Democrat Party position, opposes both charter schools and voucher programs. In 2020 she said she was “particularly concerned with [opposed to] expansions of for-profit charter schools,” and she criticized President Trump’s campaign promise to, as Harris put it, “divert public school funding to private school vouchers.”
Free College:
When launching her 2020 presidential campaign on January 21, 2019, Harris said: “I am running to declare education is a fundamental right, and we will guarantee that right with universal pre-K and debt free college!”
Harris in 2020 promised that if she and Joe Biden were elected to the White House, they would make both a two- and four-year college education tuition-free for students from families earning less than $125,000 per year.
Analysis: As bestselling author Mark Levin points out, free-college proposals are highly unjust. Only about one-third of all Americans hold a college degree, and college graduates earn a great deal more than non-graduates. Thus, “free college” means that the lower-earning non-college-graduates would be required to subsidize, via their tax payments, the education of the higher-earning graduates.
Student-Loan Debt Forgiveness:
The proposition of student-loan debt forgiveness is fundamentally unfair because the loans, under such an arrangement, would be paid off by taxpayers, many of whom chose not to attend college because they did not want to take on the enormous debt associated with it. Moreover, such debt forgiveness would not do much to help people in real economic need. As the Heritage Foundation notes: “Loan forgiveness would overwhelmingly benefit the already well-off. It’s projected that for every dollar of debt cancellation that would go to the lower middle class and impoverished student loan holders, seven times that would go to the top 20% of earners—the lawyers, accountants, and doctors who borrowed heavily for their degrees.”In 2020, Harris promised that if she and Biden were elected to the White House, “for those students who come out [of college] and have jobs that pay less than $125,000, student-loan debt will also be forgiven.”
Electoral College:
Harris has stated that she is “open to the discussion” of abolishing the Electoral College. “There’s no question that the popular vote has been diminished in terms of making the final decision about who’s the president of the United States, and we need to deal with that,” she says, “so I’m open to the discussion.”
Energy & Environment:
Warning of the Dangers of Climate Change:
On January 21, 2019, presidential candidate Harris delivered a speech wherein she asserted that: “Climate change is real and it is happening now. From wildfires in the west to hurricanes in the east, to floods and droughts in the heartland, we’re not gonna buy the lie. We’re gonna act, based on science fact, not science fiction.”
Activism Against Fossil-Fuel Companies:
In 2016, Harris was one of seventeen Attorneys General (16 Democrats and 1 Independent) who joined “AGs United for Clean Power” (AGUCP), a group launched by former Vice President Al Gore. AGUCP’s objective was to file criminal fraud charges against fossil-fuel companies (and their supporters) that failed to explicitly endorse the notion that greenhouse-gas emissions associated with human industrial activity are chiefly responsible for potentially catastrophic “climate change.”
Carbon Taxes and Cap-&-Trade:
In 2016, Harris’ Senate campaign website vowed that she would, if elected, “stand up to the climate-change deniers and fight to pass national climate-change legislation that promotes innovation like establishing a carbon tax or creating a cap-and-trade market for carbon pollution.”
As the Institute for Faith and Freedom explains: “The purpose of cap and trade legislation is to reduce Americans’ consumption of fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—and to speed up the transition to alternate forms of energy, such as wind and solar power. The ‘cap’ part would be a legislated limit to the quantity of carbon dioxide that Americans would be permitted to put into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. The government would then issue permits that it would sell or give … to businesses who could then either emit CO2 up to the amount stipulated in their permit, or, if they can curb CO2 emissions below that amount, could sell or ‘trade’ the permit to the highest bidder in the after-market.”
Ban the Sale of Gasoline-Powered Cars by 2035:
In April 2019, Senator Harris co-sponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019, which sought to ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2040, at which point they would have to be powered by either electricity or hydrogen. When Harris subsequently launched her 2020 presidential bid, her campaign website advocated standards that were even more ambitious – a plan to ban internal-combustion-engine cars by 2035.
Supporter of the Paris Climate Accord:
Summarizing the major tenets and objectives of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, a Heritage Foundation report says:
“During the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, President Barack Obama met with world leaders from around the globe to discuss plans to combat climate change. The general consensus from the summit was that the use of natural resources, such as coal, oil, and natural gas—which provide 80 percent of the world’s energy needs—should be avoided. Furthermore, industrialized, rich countries should pay for poor countries to build more renewable power and address climate change. In effect, the framework is a push for un-development for the industrialized world and a major obstacle for growth for the developing world. The economic impact of instituting the regulations associated with the Paris agreement will be severe [… and] the economic sacrifices will generate a negligible impact on global temperatures.”
When President Trump in June 2017 announced his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, Harris said that Trump’s “disastrous decision” would have “catastrophic repercussions for our planet’s future,” and would “threate[n] the world our children and children’s children will live in.”
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said: “My plan sets out a bold target to exceed the Paris Agreement climate goals and achieve a clean economy by 2045, investing $10 trillion in public and private funding to meet the initial 10-year mobilization necessary to stave off the worst climate impacts…. By 2030, we will run on 100 percent carbon-neutral electricity, all new buses, heavy-duty vehicles, and vehicle fleets will be zero-emission. All new buildings will be carbon-neutral.”
The U.S. rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement on the first day of the Biden-Harris administration in 2021.
Ban Offshore Drilling:
On April 29, 2017, Harris posted on her social media account: “Offshore drilling is harmful to the environment and poses a threat to the health and well-being of Californians…. That’s why I’m standing up for our natural resources and public health by co-sponsoring legislation that would ban drilling off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington.”
Opponent of Fracking:
Hydraulic fracturing — commonly known as fracking — is a horizontal-drilling technology that allows oil and gas to be extracted from shale rock thousands of feet below ground. Fracking has been a vital component of America’s ability to finally achieve energy-independence. Contrary to claims that fracking pollutes drinking-water sources, scientific evidence now shows that it is a safe, clean process that has no effect on groundwater.
In September 2019, presidential candidate Harris was asked, “Will you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking [on] your first day in office, adding the United States to the list of countries who have banned this devastating practice?” She replied: “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking, and starting with what we can do on day 1 [of my presidency] around public lands. And then there has to be legislation. But yes, and this is something I’ve taken on in California. I have a history of working on this issue. And … we have to just acknowledge that the residual impact of fracking is enormous in terms of the impact on the health and safety of communities.”
Threatens to Bring Criminal Charges against Big Oil:
During a November 2019 town hall in South Carolina, Harris was asked if she planned to investigate the role that large oil companies played in polluting the environment. “You should be really prepared to look at a serious fine or be charged with a crime,” she replied. “And, not unlike the tobacco companies, after years — ’cause they’d done the research — they knew the harm that their product was causing. They were making so much money that they kept that secret — same thing with these big oil companies. And they need to pay the price. So yes is the answer.”
Co-Sponsor of the Green New Deal:
In October 2018, Democrat congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) made reference to a “Green New Deal” that would: (a) aim to make the U.S. 100 percent reliant on renewable energy sources (wind, water, solar) by the year 2035; (b) strive to eliminate all fossil fuels from the U.S. electric grid by 2030, thereby forcing Americans to use much more expensive and less reliable energy sources such as wind and solar, neither of which is capable of fulfilling more than a tiny fraction of America’s energy needs; and (c) mandate trillions of dollars in public expenditures on government-approved “upgrades” and “retrofits” to make existing homes and businesses more “energy efficient.”
In addition to environmental and energy matters, the Green New Deal vowed to “build on FDR’s second bill of rights by guaranteeing” a number of major benefits:
- “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work”
- “a [federal] job with a family-sustaining wage” for those who are in fact able and willing to work
- “family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security” for all workers
- “high-quality education, including higher education and trade schools,” with all tuition costs covered by the government
- “high-quality health care” administered by the federal government
- “safe, affordable, adequate housing”
Noting that “none of these proposals has anything at all to do with climate change,” Heartland Institute president Tim Huelskamp described the Green New Deal as “the most radical socialist proposal in modern congressional history.”
In July 2019, AOC’s chief-of-staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, candidly acknowledged that the Green New Deal had not been devised to protect the environment, but rather to implement socialism. “[I]t wasn’t originally a climate thing at all…. [W]e really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
By March 14, 2019, Kamala Harris was one of eleven U.S. Senators — all Democrats, except “Independent” Bernie Sanders — who had officially signed on as co-sponsors of the Green New Deal. Harris called herself “a proud co-sponsor of [the] Green New Deal resolution.”
In her 2020 presidential campaign, Harris said: “As president of the United States, I am prepared to pass a Green New Deal.”
Invest in Electric Vehicles:
In 2022, Harris said, “Electric cars, trucks and buses, they don’t produce tailpipe emissions that irritate the nose and eyes, that decrease lung function, that increase susceptibility to respiratory illness. And so, putting more electric vehicles on our roads will make communities … healthier for our babies. … The auto industry is clearly moving toward electric. We need to make the shift faster, and make sure it is driven by the United States. That means manufacturing millions of electric cars, trucks, and buses right here in our country…. And it means installing a national network of EV chargers.
In May 2024, Harris went to Detroit to announce a $100 million government outlay to help auto manufacturers to upgrade their facilities in preparation for increased production of electric vehicles.
A Mackinac Center for Public Policy report explains that electric vehicles (EVs) “are proving to have at least as much environmental impact as conventional vehicles.” Some key excerpts:
- “While electric vehicles may not emit carbon dioxide during normal operations, the power sources that charge their batteries commonly do. The majority of electric vehicles are charged using power generated by fossil fuels [requiring] diesel generators…. Heritage Foundation research explainsthat [in the process of manufacturing a single] Tesla Model S battery, carbon dioxide emissions are ‘equivalent to driving [a] BMW 320d for 60,000 miles.’”
- “About 70%of electric vehicle [lithium-ion] batteries and their components are made in China, which derives the vast majority of its energy from fossil fuels, specifically coal. Furthermore, the manufacturing process for these batteries is far less efficient than the manufacturing process for batteries used in conventional vehicles.”
- “The components of electric vehicles also have an environmental cost…. Mining and other processes are used to extract materials such as lithium and cobalt from the ground. Lithium is often collected through brine extraction, a process [that] can contaminate [and deplete] groundwater supplies [especially] in … Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.”
- “In the … ‘artisanal mining’ that occurs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [e]ntire regions of the nation, including forests and water resources, have been ravaged and polluted to provide much of the world’s supply of cobalt” – a metal necessary for the production of EV batteries.
- “[T]he disposal of EV batteries and their components presents a major risk to the environment. According to Sciencemagazine, if the battery ends up in a landfill, ‘its cells can release problematic toxins, including heavy metals’ that can leach into landfills or groundwater.”
End Fossil Fuel:
During the 2020 presidential run, Joe Biden, who would later boast that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, said at a September 2019 campaign appearance: “I want you to look at my eyes. I guarantee you, I guarantee you, we’re going to end fossil fuel.”
Canceling Completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline:
On his very first day as the nation’s chief executive — January 20, 2021 — President Biden signed an executive order revoking the presidential permit by which President Trump had granted permission for the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline which was intended to transport crude oil from Canada to refineries and distribution centers in the United States. “The Keystone XL pipeline disserves the U.S. national interest,” said Biden’s order. “… Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives.”
But in fact, Biden’s decision to cancel Keystone was destined to have a negative impact on the environment. Consider the issues of efficiency and safety in the transport of crude oil. Nearly three-fourths of all petroleum products in the U.S. were already being transported via some 200,000 linear miles of existing pipelines, while trucks and trains together accounted for only 7 percent of petroleum transport. Despite this massive imbalance, liquid pipelines had a long safety record that was vastly superior to that of roads and railways. Accidents, leaks, spills, and other environmentally hazardous incidents were far less likely to involve transport by pipelines than by trucks or trains.
Nor were there any identifiable benefits that the termination of the Keystone pipeline could possibly have on the long-term health of the environment. The Daily Signal noted that “even if the oil meant for the pipeline was blocked completely, the impact on the global climate would be almost nonexistent, clocking in at a meager four ten-thousandths of a degree (Celsius) in temperature change over the next 79 years.”
And that is to say nothing about the 11,000 American jobs that were permanently lost when Biden cancelled Keystone, nor about the massive economic consequences that virtually all Americans suffered as a result of the Biden-Harris war on fossil fuels. Specifically, the nation’s declining petroleum output under Biden-Harris gave rise to runaway inflation of a magnitude that the U.S. had not seen in decades.
Waiving Sanctions Against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline:
Just four months after having issued the executive order to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, President Biden, citing U.S. national interests, decided to waive Trump-era sanctions against the company in charge of building Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany. National security expert Tom Rogan pointed out that Biden’s action would have a number of major repercussions:
“First, Nord Stream 2 will give Putin the means of Europe’s long-term energy dependence on Russia. That will allow Putin to leverage European political appeasement in return for Russia’s provision of cold winter energy supplies. It will thus weaken the American-led international order…. It will be of particular concern to NATO allies on Russia’s border…. Second, Nord Stream 2 will deny Ukraine access to billions of dollars in annual energy transit funds by displacing energy supplies from Ukrainian pipelines. For a country under escalating Russian military pressure, Biden’s action represents a clear betrayal.”
War on Fossil Fuels Empowers & Enriches China:
The Biden-Harris quest to abandon fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy empowers America’s chief political and military rival, Communist China, which thoroughly dominates the technologies and raw materials required for the production of solar panels and the lithium batteries that store energy from the wind and sun. For instance, China produces 90 percent of the world’s polysilicon, central to the production of solar panels. It is also the world’s leading supplier of cobalt, a key component of lithium batteries. And 60% of the world’s known cobalt deposits derive from Chinese-owned mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the mining industry has long been notorious for its exploitation of child labor.
Begging for Oil Imports from Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, & UAE:
On March 8, 2022, President Biden announced that the U.S. would now ban oil imports from Russia — just days after his administration had argued against such a ban. “We will not be part of subsidizing Putin’s war [in Ukraine],” Biden said. Warning Americans to expect even higher gas prices as a result of this decision, he added: “I said defending freedom is going to cost.” Biden also stated: “I’m going to do everything I can to minimize Putin’s price hike here at home.”
But the Biden-Harris war on U.S.-based fossil fuels put America in the position of begging some of its most hostile enemies across the globe to help it meet its domestic energy needs. In March 2022, for instance, the Biden-Harris administration, in an effort to make up for the domestic petroleum shortfall that was causing American gasoline and heating-oil prices to skyrocket, sought to purchase oil from Iran and Venezuela. Biden also asked Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to increase their own respective outputs of oil in order to throw a lifeline to America, but he was rebuffed in humiliating fashion. This all occurred less than 18 months after America’s own massive oil reserves had made the United States a net exporter of oil and refined fuels during the Trump years.
On May 4, 2022, OPEC, the powerful Middle Eastern oil cartel, announced that it would, along with Russia, reject the Biden administration’s latest request for OPEC to increase its oil production as a way of stopping the rapid rise in petroleum prices.
Equity (Equal Outcomes):
On November 1, 2020 — two days before election day — VP candidate Harris narrated an online animated video in which she said: “So there’s a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, ‘Oh everyone should get the same amount.’ The problem with that, not everybody [sic] startin’ out from the same place. So if we’re all gettin’ the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here — we could get the same amount, but you [you are] still going to be that far back behind me. It’s about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”
Filibuster:
Supporter of Ending the Senate Filibuster Rule:
In September 2019, Harris said that if she were to win the presidency, she would support abolishing the filibuster — the requirement that any proposed legislation garner 60 votes as a prerequisite to ending the Senate’s unlimited debate and bringing the bill to a simple majority vote. “[I]f they [Republicans] fail to act,” she stated, “as president of the United States, I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal.”
During a speech at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in September 2022, Harris said that if Democrats could win two additional U.S. Senate seats in the upcoming November midterms, they would then have enough votes to end the “archaic” filibuster rule and pass whatever legislation her party deemed essential. “With just two more seats in the Senate, we can codify Roe v. Wade, we can put the protections of Roe in law,” Harris said. “With two more seats in the United States Senate we can pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Two more seats…. [A]s vice president, I’m also president of the Senate.… I cannot wait to cast the deciding vote to break the filibuster on voting rights and reproductive rights. I cannot wait! Fifty-nine days [until Election Day].” (Theretofore, Democrats had been unable to eliminate the filibuster rule because 2 of their 50 senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, were committed to keeping it in place.)
Other Leading Democrats Who Support Ending the Senate Filibuster Rule:
On October 5, 2021, President Biden, who boasted that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, said there was a “real possibility” that Senate Democrats might use their razor-thin majority to suspend the filibuster rule so they could forcibly raise the debt ceiling even with no Republican support at all.
During a June 30, 2022 press conference, Biden was asked what “specific actions” he might take in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “I believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade in the law,” he said, “and the way to do that is to make sure Congress votes to do that. And if the filibuster gets in the way … we provide an exception for this, we require an exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with the Supreme Court decision.”
Democratic Party Officially Supports Ending the Senate Filibuster Rule:
In a January 30, 2021 interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s Politics Nation, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer articulated his desire to end the Senate filibuster rule, a move that would empower his party to ram its agenda down the throat of a deeply divided nation at a time when Democrats controlled both the House and Senate by the slimmest of margins.
At a March 16, 2021 press conference, Schumer spoke about the prospect of Democrats dispensing with the Senate filibuster rule. “[W]e must get bold change,” he said. “And if our Republican friends block it, we’re going to put our heads together and figure out the best way to go. Everything’s on the table. It’s plain and simple.” (This was a stark contrast to Schumer’s 2005 assertion that if the Republicans’ then-majority were to end the filibuster rule, it “would be a doomsday for democracy,” usher in a “dictatorship,” and “make this country into a banana republic.” Schumer had similarly spoken out against ending the filibuster in April 2017.)
Free Speech Restrictions:
Called for Trump’s Twitter Account to Be Terminated:
In an October 1, 2019 letter addressed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Senator Harris asked the social media company to consider suspending President Trump’s account because he had: (a) used Twitter to “target, harass, and attempt to out” the whistleblower who filed a complaint alleging that Trump had once pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to uncover damaging information about Joe Biden; (b) likened the whistleblower to a spy and “further implied that the punishment for that should be death”; and (c) tweeted that “a Civil War” might erupt if Democrats were to impeach him. “I believe the President’s recent tweets rise to the level that Twitter should consider suspending his account,” Harris wrote in her letter. “Others have had their accounts suspended for less offensive behavior. And when this kind of abuse is being spewed from the most powerful office in the United States, the stakes are too high to do nothing.”
In an October 15, 2019 CNN interview, host Jake Tapper asked Senator Harris about her call “for Twitter to suspend the account of President Trump.” Harris replied: “You can look at the manifesto from the shooter in El Paso to know that what Donald Trump says on Twitter impacts people’s perceptions about what they should and should not do…. He has lost his privileges and it should be taken down. And the bottom line is that you can’t say you have one rule for Facebook and you have a different rule for Twitter. The same rule has to apply, which is that there has to be a responsibility that is placed on these social media sites to understand their power. They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation. And that has to stop.”
Promoting Government Collusion with Social Media Companies:
During a December 19, 2022 appearance on NPR, VP Harris stated that in order to minimize the spread of misinformation and disinformation: “I fully expect and would require that leaders in [the social media] sector cooperate and work with us who are concerned about national security and concerned about upholding and protecting our democracy to do everything in their power to ensure that there is not a manipulation that is allowed or overlooked that is done with the intention of upending the security of our democracy and our nation.”
Exhorting the Press & Social Media to Censor “Misinformation & Disinformation”:
On January 13, 2022, President Biden, who boasted that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, pleaded with Americans to continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic by wearing masks and getting vaccinated, and he exhorted media companies to censor posts that contradicted government narratives on COVID-19, its transmission, and the efficacy of masks and vaccines. “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets,” he said, “please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that’s on your shows, it has to stop.”
“Disinformation Governance Board” to Thwart Free Speech:
On April 27, 2022, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that, at the direction of the Biden-Harris administration, a “Disinformation Governance Board” (DGB), whose stated purpose was to protect America’s national security by combating foreign misinformation and disinformation campaigns, had recently been established as part of DHS. The DGB was headed by Nina Jankowicz, who described herself “a disinformation fellow” and an expert on Russian disinformation.
In an opinion piece published by The Hill on May 1, 2022, media-and-politics columnist Joe Concha criticized the DGB by pointing out that politics are routinely used to determine what is classified as “disinformation” or “misinformation.” He noted, for instance, that:
- Jankowicz in 2020 had falsely characterized New York Post reports that the infamous Hunter Biden laptop contained massive evidence of corruption by Joe Biden and his family, as nothing more than “a Trump campaign product” rooted in Russian disinformation.
- Jankowicz had falsely described the fraudulent Steele dossier that accused Donald Trump of colluding politically with Russia and committing various moral/sexual improprieties, as a document replete with “great historical context about the evolution of disinfo.”
- In May 2022, DHS Secretary Mayorkas had wrongly accusedhis own Border Patrol agents of whipping migrants in a manner that “painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism.”
“You get the point,” wrote Concha. “Mayorkas and Jankowicz are two of the last people who should be leading any ‘Ministry of Truth.’ And the U.S. government shouldn’t even have considered creating something like this [DGB] to be run by partisans with political agendas.”
Pressured Facebook to Censor Content:
In an August 26, 2024 letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Facebook/Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg affirmed that “senior officials” from the Biden-Harris administration had “repeatedly pressured our teams for months [in 2021] to censor certain COVID-19 content” that people sought to post on the social media platform. “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” Zuckerberg added. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”
In that same letter, Zuckerberg wrote that just before the 2020 presidential election between Biden-Harris and Trump-Pence, Facebook had temporarily demoted all references to the New York Post story reporting that Hunter Biden’s laptop contained damning evidence of corruption involving Joe Biden and his family. The demotion of that story, Zuckerberg explained, occurred because the FBI had warned Facebook that the laptop’s content may have been part of a “Russian disinformation operation” designed to thwart Joe Biden’s presidential chances. “It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation,” Zuckerberg wrote in his letter, “and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”
Gun Rights & Second Amendment:
Supported a Ban on All Handguns:
During her time as DA of San Francisco in 2005, Harris supported Proposition H, which contained a proposal to completely ban the possession of handguns throughout the city. According to Breitbart.com: “The ban supported by Harris was structured so as to require city residents to hand over all handguns within four months.”
Allow In-Home Inspections of Personal Guns & Their Storage:
In 2007, then-San Francisco DA Harris proudly announced that a bill which she had helped draft – and which was later signed into law by Mayor Gavin Newsom — would effectively authorize the government to dispatch police officers to enter the homes of legal gun owners to check if the latter were being “responsible” with their weapons. “We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community,” Harris told reporters, “and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home, doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”
2nd Amendment Does Not Protect Right to Own a Gun:
Arguing that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual’s right to own a gun, DA Harris in 2008 filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller. In that case, the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms—unconnected with service in a militia—for lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home.
Regarding the Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller decision, Biden has said: “If I were on the Court, I wouldn’t have made the same ruling.”
Ban “Assault Weapons” & “High-Capacity Magazines”:
In 2017, Harris co-sponsored a bill to ban “assault weapons” and the sale of “high-capacity magazines,” commonly defined as those that hold more than 10 rounds.
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website also included the following policy proposal: “Ban AR-15-style assault weapons from being imported into the United States.” The website also advocated a “ban high capacity magazines,” and “renewing the assault weapons ban.”
Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign website says “she’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”
On February 14, 2021, President Biden exhorted Congress to pass legislation “banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”
“Why should we allow people to have … pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?” Biden asked in a 2020 campaign speech.
Biden has called for banning the sale of “assault weapons” and “clips that have multiple bullets in them,” which would effectively amount to a ban on nearly all firearms.
- NOTE: The Heritage Foundation explains: “There is no standard definition of ‘assault weapon,’ but the phrase generally refers to a semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine and one or more of a handful of common cosmetic features, such as a pistol grip, forward grip, barrel shroud, collapsing or folding stock, or threaded barrel…. [These weapons] are functionally identical to all other semi-automatic rifles.”
Opposed to Criminal Immunity for Gun Makers & Dealers:
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said she would fight for “the repeal of the NRA’s corporate gun manufacturer and dealer immunity bill” – i.e., the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a 2005 U.S law protecting firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when their products are used in the commission of a crime.
On February 14, 2021, President Biden pushed Congress to pass legislation “eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets.”
Supporters of Forced Government Buybacks of Semi-Automatic Guns:
Harris supports forced, government-mandated buybacks of semiautomatic rifles. As she said in September 2019, “I think it’s a good idea…. We have to take those guns off the streets.”
President Biden likewise favored “a national buyback program” for semiautomatic firearms.
Biden’s point man on gun control in 2020 was Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who repeatedly conflated automatic and semiautomatic weapons while warning: “I want to be clear: That’s exactly what we’re going to do [buyback programs]. Americans who own AR-15s and AK-47s will have to sell their assault weapons. All of them.” “Hell yes,” O’Rourke emphasized, “we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47 …”
Health Care:
Medicare for All:
When launching her 2020 presidential campaign on January 21, 2019, Harris stated: “I am running to declare, once and for all, that health care is a fundamental right, and we will deliver that right with Medicare for All!” In other words, she called for a government-run, single-payer healthcare system.
- Single-payer systems have been tried in a number of nations in recent decades. Because such systems are “free,” people tend to overuse their healthcare. Thus, in order to contain costs, government must ration services like diagnostic procedures, rehabilitation services, surgery, etc. Patients invariably face long waiting lists for treatments of all types.
- Another hallmark of most single-payer systems is a shortage of doctors – mainly as a result of government controls and capped compensation.
- The bureaucracies of single-payer systems hold ultimate authority over the treatments that each patient can get. Britain’s National Health Service, for instance, relies on the recommendations of a quasi-governmental panel that determines which patients should be given precedence for the treatments and medications they need, all of which are in short supply. Because of cost considerations, the panel generally gives preference to young people over older people, and to healthy people over those with chronic disease.
- The Cato Institute states that “in countries weighted heavily toward government control, people are most likely to face waiting lists, rationing, restrictions on physician choice, and other obstacles to care.” By contrast: “[T]hose countries with national health care systems that work better, such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, are successful to the degree that they incorporate market mechanisms such as competition, cost-consciousness, market prices, and consumer choice, and eschew centralized government control. In other words, socialized medicine works—as long as it isn’t socialized medicine.”
Vows to “Snatch” Medical Patents & Fix the Prices of Medicines:
At a 2019 presidential campaign event in Iowa, Harris vowed that in order to forcibly lower the costs of pharmaceuticals, she, as president, would have the government set what it deemed to be a fair market price for each drug, and would punish any pharmaceutical companies that failed to comply with her pricing structure. Specifically, she vowed to “snatch” those companies’ patents for the medicines in question. “I will snatch their patent so that we [the government] will take over,” she declared. When a rally attendee asked, “Can we do that?”, Harris replied: “Yes we can do that! … The question is, do you have the will to do it? I have the will to do it!”
Health Care Coverage for Illegal Aliens:
When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Harris in May 2019 whether she supported granting taxpayer-funded benefits “to people who are in this country illegally,” she responded: “Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period.”
That same month, Joe Biden stated that America has “an obligation” to provide federal benefits like Medicare and Medicaid for all people, “regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented.”
Identity Politics & Tribalism:
In August 2018, Sen. Harris complained that critics of “identity politics” were employing that term to disparage various demographic groups whose members tended to form voting blocs centered around race, gender and sexual orientation. She then noted, approvingly, how Democrat Doug Jones had won a 2017 special election to determine who would fill the U.S. Senate seat in Alabama recently vacated by Republican Jeff Sessions. “But that didn’t just magically happen,” said Harris. “It happened because black women have been putting in the work, going door to door, organizing even when the cameras were focused elsewhere.”
During the February 24, 2019 airing of MSNBC’s AM Joy, host Joy Reid asked Sen. Harris if, during her presidential campaign, it “would it be difficult for you to advocate race-based policy.” In her response, Harris said: “This term ‘identity politics,’ people will use that term — it’s like people used to talk about the race card. They bring this term up when you talk about issues that are about race, about sexual orientation, about religion. They’ll bring it up when we are talking about civil rights issues as a way to marginalize the issue, as a way to frankly try to silence you or shut you up. We need to call it what it is, which is to try and divert away from a conversation that needs to happen in America. Why? One, because we must speak truth. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Semitism are all real in this country, so we need to have that conversation and address it….”
In 2018, Sen. Harris introduced the Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act, an affirmative action-style bill requiring the Federal Reserve to interview “at least one individual reflective of gender diversity and one reflective of racial or ethnic diversity.”
In May 2020, Sen. Harris introduced the COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force Act, aimed at providing Congress and various federal agencies with “reports and recommendations related to racial and ethnic disparities in the COVID-19 response.”
In July 2020, Harris introduced the COVID-19 Bias and Anti-Racism Training Act, a bill that that called for the Department of Health & Human Services to “award grants to health care providers, public health departments, tribal organizations, schools for social workers and health professionals, and other nonprofit entities, for bias and anti-racism training to reduce disparities in COVID-19 response efforts.”
Immigration & Border Policies:
Allowed Law-Enforcement to Ignore ICE Detainers for Deportation:
On December 4, 2012, Attorney General Harris issued a memo informing all the executives of California’s state and local law-enforcement agencies that they could “make their own decisions about whether to fulfill” Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers – i.e., temporary holds that federal immigration authorities may place on municipal prisoners who are suspected of being eligible for deportation.
Allowed Release of Violent Illegals Previously Deported:
Attorney General Harris demonstrated her low regard for immigration law after an illegal alien named Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez – a convicted felon who had been previously deported from the U.S. on five separate occasions – was released from a San Francisco prison in April 2015 and subsequently murdered a young woman named Kathryn Steinle. Harris supported Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s decision – which was made in accordance with the city’s sanctuary policies – to set Lopez-Sanchez free rather than turn him over to immigration authorities. Said Harris: “What needs to be looked at is comprehensive immigration reform….”
Says Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime:
In response to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s criticism of illegal immigration, Harris in August 2016 tweeted that “an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”
Appointed by Biden to Oversee Border Protection:
On March 24, 2021, President Biden announced that he was appointing VP Harris to lead the government’s efforts to stem the massive flow of illegal migrants who had been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since the very start of the Biden presidency. A senior administration official said that Harris’ duties would focus on “two tracks”: (a) slowing the current flow of migrants, and (b) devising a long-term strategy to address the “root causes” of the migration.
But Harris subsequently did nothing to indicate that she was serious about those border duties. She did not visit the southern border even once until June 25, 2021 — ninety-three days after her March 24 appointment by Biden. That visit came after: (a) more than 50 House Republicans demanded on June 20 that Biden relieve Harris of her border-related duties because she had done nothing to slow the massive flood of illegal aliens; and (b) former President Donald Trump, also on June 20, announced that he himself would soon make an official visit to the border along with Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Pledged to Pour U.S. Money into Central America:
In April 2021, VP Harris said: “We are looking at the issue of poverty and the lack, therefore, of economic opportunities.” She then explained that in order to address these problems as well as the border crisis, the U.S. would work to improve living conditions for Guatemala, so that Guatemalans could feel “that there will be an opportunity for them if they stay at home.”
Citing Climate Factors as a “Root Cause” of Migration Crisis:
In April 2021, VP Harris said that “the issue of extreme weather conditions and the lack of climate adaptation” was causing many Central Americans to head northward to the United States.
Bringing an Illegal Alien to Trump’s State of the Union Address:
On January 30, 2018, Sen. Harris was one of several Democrats who brought illegal aliens as their guests to President Trump’s State of the Union address. Harris’ guest was Denea Joseph, an advocate for black illegal migrants. “Dreamers like Denea represent the best of who we are as a nation,” said Harris.
Likening ICE to the KKK:
In November 2018, Sen. Harris asked Ronald Vitiello, whom President Trump had nominated to head the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, if he believed that ICE, by the manner in which it treated illegal migrants, was creating public fear and distrust in a manner similar to how the Ku Klux Klan had sparked such emotions during its heyday in the 20th century. “Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at ICE is being used to enforce the laws, and do you see any parallels?” asked Harris. “I do not see a parallel between what is constitutionally mandated as it relates to enforcing the law,” Vitiello replied, adding: “I see no perception that puts ICE in the same category as the KKK.” A moment later, Harris asked: “Are you aware that there is a perception that ICE is administering its power in a way that is causing fear and intimidation, particularly among immigrants, and specifically among immigrants coming from Mexico and Central America? Are you aware of that perception?” When Vitiello again replied that he saw no parallel between ICE and the KKK, Harris asked: “Sir, how can you be the head of an agency and be unaware of how your agency is perceived by certain communities?”
Promoted False Claims of Abuse by Border Patrol Agents:
During the week of September 19, 2021 – by which time more than 14,000 Haitians had gathered under a bridge on the banks of the Rio Grande in hopes of gaining approval for asylum in the U.S. — the media were abuzz with accusations claiming that Border Patrol agents were using whips to prevent those Haitians from illegally entering the United States. Specifically, the controversy was sparked by photographs of agents mounted on horseback attempting to corral incoming migrants. Some photos showed the agents twirling their reins to coax the horses in certain directions, and many critics misidentified the reins as whips that were being used to harm and degrade the migrants.
The “whipping” claims were ultimately proven to be entirely false, but not before a credulous VP Harris said she was “outraged” by the “horrible and deeply troubling” images shown in the photos. “Human beings should not be treated that way,” she elaborated, “and as we all know, it also evoked images of some of the worst moments of our history where that kind of behavior has been used against the indigenous people of our country, has been used against African Americans during times of slavery.” When the falsity of Harris’ claims was ultimately revealed, Harris did not apologize for her error.
Path to Citizenship for Illegals:
On January 21, 2019, Sen. Harris said she wished to help cultivate “an America where we welcome refugees and bring people out of the shadows, and provide a pathway to citizenship.”
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said: “As president, Kamala will fight to pass immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million people living in our communities and contributing to our economy.”
During an August 2024 presidential campaign rally in Arizona, Harris said she would support amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens residing in the United States, through “comprehensive [immigration] reform” and “an earned pathway to citizenship.”
Protect Illegals from Deportation:
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said that Harris “will immediately reinstate DACA and implement DAPA to protect DREAMers and their parents from deportation.”
- DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), enacted via a 2012 policy announced by President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, was designed to prevent the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who had first come to the U.S. as minors — though Obama himself had previously acknowledged on numerous occasions that DACA was unconstitutional.
- DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) sought to protect illegal migrants who had given birth to children while in the U.S., from deportation.
- DREAMers is a term that refers to the intended beneficiaries of the so-called DREAM Act, legislation aiming to offer permanent legal status to illegal aliens who first arrived in the U.S. as minors.
Expand DACA:
Vowing to expand the number of people covered by DACA from about 700,000 to approximately 6 million, Sen. Harris said in 2019: “These young people are just as American as I am, and they deserve a president who will fight for them from day one.”
Close Immigrant Detention Centers:
Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign website said that Harris “[will] close private immigrant detention centers,” whose purpose is to keep illegal aliens in custody in order to ensure that they will be present for their eventual immigration proceedings or deportations. The closure of these centers would cause such illegals to be released into the American interior with instructions to appear for an immigration or asylum hearing at a later date – instructions that are rarely obeyed.
Opponent of a Border Wall:
Regarding the construction of a wall along the southern U.S. border, Sen. Harris said in 2019: “Let’s get this straight: Billions of dollars for a border wall is a waste of money. American taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for the President’s [Trump’s] vanity project. We simply don’t need it.”
Proposes Merely One Extra Border Patrol Agent Per 5-6 Miles of Border:
During her September 19, 2024 presidential debate with Donald Trump, VP Harris criticized Trump for having opposed a 2024 “border security bill which I supported,” and which “would have put 1,500 more border agents on the border.” But because only about 20 to 25 percent of all border agents are on duty at any given time, a mere 300 to 400 extra agents would have been patrolling America’s 1,933-mile southern border during any given shift. Former Border Patrol Agent Tom Homan characterized the bill as “ridiculous,” saying: “By the time you site these agents on the northern border, southern border, and on the maritime control, it makes zero difference.”
Attributing Fascist Motives to Trump’s Border Policies:
On October 15, 2024, Harris sat for an hour-long interview with the popular radio host “Charlamagne tha God,” a discussion that was carried on iHeartRadio’s website and livestreamed on CNN. When a caller voiced concern that Trump, who had pledged to deport large numbers of illegal aliens, might “put anyone that doesn’t look white in camps,” Harris replied: “Yeah, so you’ve hit on a really important point and expressed it, I think so well, which is he is achieving his intended effect to make you scared. He prefers to run on a problem [illegal migration] instead of fix a problem, and we got to call it out and see it for what it is.”
Funding for Sanctuary Cities:
Sen. Harris opposed the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act of 2017, which called for the withholding of federal grants to sanctuary cities. The “sanctuary” policies of these cities require city employees to refrain from notifying the federal government that illegal aliens are living in their communities.
On March 4, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration’s Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to dismiss three pending cert petitions (requests to hear a case) regarding Trump administration efforts to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities. The following day, the Court agreed to dismiss the petitions.
Health Care Coverage for Illegal Aliens:
When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Sen. Harris in May 2019 whether she supported granting taxpayer-funded benefits “to people who are in this country illegally,” she responded: “Let me just be very clear about this. I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education or public health, period.”
In a June 2019 Democratic presidential primary debate, co-moderator Savannah Guthrie asked the candidates to raise their hand if their proposed healthcare plan would cover “undocumented immigrants.” Harris raised her hand, as did Joe Biden and eight others.
No More Immigration Raids:
To augment its effort to maximize the number of illegal aliens who are permitted to stay in the U.S. and eventually become Democrat voters, the Democratic Party pledged, in its official 2020 Platform, to “end workplace and community raids” designed to snare illegal aliens, particularly at “sensitive locations like our schools, houses of worship, health care facilities, benefits offices, and DMVs.” Joe Biden repeatedly and unambiguously echoed this position during his presidential campaign.
In an October 12, 2021 memo issued to the Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP) agencies, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that his agency would now end all mass immigration-enforcement raids at worksites in the United States.
Encourage Migration by People Dependent on Government Aid:
Democrats condemned the Trump Administration’s 2019 pledge to make it more difficult for people who would be a “public charge”—i.e., dependent on government benefits—to apply for U.S. citizenship. On March 9, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the Biden-Harris administration would no longer enforce Trump’s 2019 public charge rule—on grounds that it “was not in keeping with our nation’s values.”
In February 2022, it was reported that President Biden’s deputies were rewriting the Trump-era “public charge” regulations. “Under this [new] proposed rule … individuals will not be penalized for choosing to access the [taxpayer-funded] health benefits and other supplemental government services available to them,” said DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on February 17.
Moratorium on Deportations:
Regarding a Texas federal judge’s January 26, 2021 ruling against the Biden-Harris administration’s wish to place a 100-day moratorium on deportations, former ICE Acting Director Tom Homan said on February 10th that the administration was defiantly “circumventing the judge’s order” by instructing ICE officers to stop arresting illegals, and by releasing those illegals into local communities. “What kind of message does that send to the rest of the world?” Homan asked. “If you come to the country illegally, if you can get past the border patrol, don’t commit an aggravated felony, and you’re home free. You get to stay because ICE is not looking for you. It’s no longer illegal to be here illegally.”
Restore “Catch-and-Release”:
Harris and Biden favored the restoration of the “catch-and-release” system of the pre-Trump era, whereby millions of asylum seekers who crossed the southern U.S. border illegally, were released into the American interior—never again to be seen by U.S. immigration authorities, in most cases. As the 2020 Democratic Party Platform said: “Democrats will end Trump Administration policies that deny protected entry to asylum seekers…. And we will end prosecution of asylum seekers at the border and policies that force them to apply from ‘safe third countries,’ which are far from safe.”
End the “Remain in Mexico” Policy:
On February 6, 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the Biden-Harris administration had canceled the Trump-era agreements wherein Central American governments had pledged to place clear and reasonable limits on their people’s access to the U.S. asylum system.
On February 12, 2021, Biden-Harris stated that asylum seekers who, under President Trump’s 2019 “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP), had been forced to remain in Mexico while waiting for their cases to be resolved in the United States, would now be readily admitted into the U.S. without further delay.
Releasing Illegals Without Scheduling a Court Date:
By March 2021, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley were routinely releasing asylum-seeking migrants into the American interior without even bothering to go through the process of giving them a “Notice To Appear” (NTA) for an asylum court hearing at some future date. Instead, the migrants were hurriedly registered into a digital system and were told that they themselves would be responsible for scheduling their own asylum hearings sometime thereafter. As a Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) source told Fox News, the migrant crisis had “become so dire that BP [Border Patrol] has no choice but to release people nearly immediately after apprehension because there is no space to hold people even to do necessary NTA paperwork.” Said another CBP official with knowledge of the Biden plan: “This is insane … We will never find most of these aliens once they are released.”
Releasing Illegals without Testing Them for COVID:
On February 8, 2021, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson reported: “[T]he Biden administration is releasing thousands of foreign nationals living here illegally into American neighborhoods without bothering to test them for the coronavirus. People from countries with high infection rates, living in crowded conditions, have been sent forth into the American population like COVID isn’t real. That’s happening. It is the official policy of the U.S. government.”
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, confirmed: “We do not test the illegal aliens we release. So, we’re releasing people without knowing, which obviously puts the public at risk.”
On March 17, 2021, The Epoch Times reported that, according to the National Sheriffs Association (NSA), as many as 50% of all people illegally crossing the southern U.S. border were possibly infected with COVID-19.
COVID Relief Payments for Illegal Aliens:
On March 22, 2021, The Epoch Times reported: “As Americans start to receive the latest round of [COVID-19 relief] stimulus checks, a new analysis reveals that about $4.38 billion will also go to illegal immigrants.”
The Center for Immigration Studies estimated that 2.65 million illegal “aliens temporarily present without status” had Social Security Numbers that would qualify them to receive stimulus checks.
Supporters of Immigration Bill That Weakens Border Security:
On February 18, 2021, Democrats Robert Menendez and Linda Sanchez introduced — in the Senate and House, respectively — the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, a sweeping immigration-reform bill supported by Biden and Harris. The legislation sought to:
- establish an 8-year path to citizenship for illegal aliens in the United States
- provide an expedited path to citizenship for farm workers and young illegals who had arrived in the U.S. as minors protected by DACA
- replace the word “alien” with “non-citizen” in immigration law documents
- raise the per-country caps on family- and employment-based legal immigration numbers
- repeal the penalty that barred deported illegals from re-entering the U.S. for 3 to 10 years
Bringing Back Previously Deported Asylum-Seekers:
In response to the Biden-Harris administration’s termination of the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, the United Nations sought to help Biden and Harris: (a) track down asylum-seeking migrants who, under the Trump policy, had been removed to Mexico or Central America to await asylum processing, and (b) bring them back to the U.S. to await their asylum processing there.
Canceled Program to Deport Illegal-Alien Sex Offenders:
In February 2021, the Biden-Harris administration cancelled Operation Talon, a Trump-era program designed to deport convicted sex offenders residing illegally in the United States.
Deport No Illegal Aliens Other Than Felons:
During his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden said that immigration agents should “only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed [in the United States], and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony.” “We’re not going to deport anybody who has not — in this country — committed a felony in this country,” said Biden on another occasion.
Allowing Illegal Aliens to Challenge Their Arrest & Detainment:
On March 4, 2021, the ICE agency told Congress that it would open an “ICE Case Review” process allowing illegal aliens to challenge their arrest and detainment if they believed they did not meet the Biden-Harris administration’s new standard, which only allowed for the arrest, detainment, or deportation of convicted aggravated felons, terrorists, gang members, or national security threats.
Outlawed the Term “Illegal Alien”:
On April 19, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration’s acting directors of ICE and CBP distributed memoranda prohibiting officers from using the phrase “illegal alien,” and requiring the phrase “undocumented migrant” instead.
De Facto Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Ordered Deported:
In early May of 2021, the Biden-Harris administration reversed a proposed rule change by former President Trump that would have prevented the federal government from continuing to issue work permits to illegal aliens who had received final deportation orders from federal immigration judges.
Using the U.S. Military to Resettle Illegals into Various U.S. States:
On July 14, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson issued a blockbuster report in which he stated: “This show has confirmed that the Biden administration has enlisted the U.S. military to move illegal immigrants secretly around our country. That is happening at Laughlin Air Force base in Texas.”
Center for Immigration Studies senior national fellow Todd Bensman provided details: “What’s happening most of the time is that they [the illegals] are boarding buses and heading into America’s heartland. A conveyor belt of commercial and charter buses … are carrying tens of thousands, sight unseen, from Texas, Arizona, and California borderlands northward, and they are dropping their Haitian, Venezuelan, Cuban, and Central American family units in [other states all over the U.S.].”
From January 2021 through October 2021, the Biden-Harris administration oversaw the flight transportation of 44,957 illegal border crossers into the American interior, while a mere 620 such illegals were denied access to those flights — an approval rate of more than 98.6 percent.
Influx of Fentanyl Skyrockets:
Because of the porous U.S. borders under Biden-Harris, the total amount of the deadly drug fentanyl seized by American border agents grew from approximately 2,800 pounds in Fiscal Year 2019, to 4,800 pounds in FY 2020, to 11,200 pounds in FY 2021, to 5,300 pounds during the first half of FY 2022.
- In April 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that during the preceding 12 months, more than 100,000Americans had died from drug overdoses — and nearly two-thirds of those deaths had been due to fentanyl. This made fentanyl the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official Anne Milgram, meanwhile, stated that the amount of fentanyl that had been trafficked illegally across the southern U.S. border in 2021 was enough, in terms of its aggregate lethality, “to kill every American” — i.e., more than 300 million people.
Democrat Congressman Says “It’s Literally an Open Border”:
During an April 22, 2022 appearance on the Fox News Channel, Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas said: “[W]hat we’re seeing is it’s literally an open border. It’s an open border.”
Making It Easier for Terrorists to Enter the U.S.:
In late June 2022, the State and Homeland Security Departments, according to a policy published in the Federal Register, amended federal immigration laws in order to permit the granting of “immigration benefits or other status” to foreigners who had provided “insignificant material support” — e.g., “humanitarian assistance” or “routine commercial transactions” — to designated terror groups. “The policy shift is fueling concerns that the Biden administration wants to make it easier for individuals who work with or for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the country’s paramilitary fighting force that has killed hundreds of Americans, to enter the country,” reported the Washington Free Beacon. “Notice of the change came several days before the Biden administration and hardline Iranian government resumed talks aimed at securing a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear deal.”
Drug Cartels’ Earnings Skyrocket:
A July 25, 2022 New York Times report stated that according to Homeland Security Investigations, the cartels and coyotes responsible for smuggling migrants illegally into the U.S. were now earning $13 billion per year under President Biden’s lax border agencies — a figure 26 times larger than the $500 million that the cartels had earned annually under former President Trump’s border policies. “The cartels and coyotes earn the money via smuggling contracts, high-interest loans, and border extortion, and by trafficking indebted migrants into indentured-servitude, cartel-controlled jobs throughout the United States,” said the Times piece.
Secret Arrangements to Usher Multitudes of Illegals into the U.S.:
In 2022, the Biden-Harris administration launched a “lawful pathways” strategy designed to artificially and deceptively suppress the official tally of people who were crossing America’s southern border illegally — so as to minimize the negative political consequences that might afflict the administration if such inordinately large numbers of illegal newcomers continued to swarm across the border in a chaotic, unregulated manner. Under “lawful pathways,” the DHS began trying to persuade tens of thousands of aspiring illegal border-crossers each month to resolve that, rather than sneaking into the United States undetected, they would instead use the CBP One smartphone application to make formal appointments to meet with U.S. officials at any of 43 separate land ports-of-entry in the American interior. When the aliens subsequently arrived at the designated land ports in order to keep those appointments, DHS welcomed them, and U.S. Customs officials quietly “paroled” them into the country. The aliens were then free to travel to any U.S. location of their choice and await their eventual asylum hearing.
In January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration initiated a “direct-flight” program as a new, added facet of the “lawful pathways” strategy. According to data obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies, this program flew at least 221,456 illegal aliens from their homelands to airports across the United States between January and mid-September of 2023. These included 76,582 Haitians, 63,360 Venezuelans, and 46,794 Cubans, as well as many others from Colombia, Nicaragua, Ukraine, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. These migrants also used the aforementioned CBP One smartphone application to request “advance travel authorizations” to take commercial passenger flights (“at their own expense”) directly to American airports in their cities of choice, where they were greeted by U.S. Customs officers who secretly “paroled” them into the United States.
From March 2023 through February 2024, this direct-flight program transported a total of some 320,000 new illegal aliens into the United States.
98 Terrorists Arrested at Border During FY 2022:
As of October 25, 2022, a total of 98 known or suspected terrorists had been arrested at the U.S. southern border during fiscal year 2022 — while the number of those who had escaped detection at the border was unknown. By contrast, only 26 terror watchlist people had been arrested at the border during the previous five years combined – an average of just 5 per year.
Pressuring Banks to Approve Loans to Illegal Aliens:
On October 12, 2023, multiple government agencies under the Biden-Harris administration posted statements threatening banks with federal investigations if they failed to approve cheap loans to illegal migrants with weak financial and credit credentials.
Illegal Border-Crossers in FY 2023 Exceeded Populations of 11 States:
According to a Daily Caller review of federal data, the roughly 1.5 million migrants who went free into the American interior after crossing the southern U.S. border illegally in fiscal year 2023 exceeded the populations of eleven separate U.S. states. That 1.5 million figure included 908,669 illegals who were released by the Border Patrol following apprehension, along with another 600,000+ “got-aways” who were never apprehended.
Massive Increase in Border Patrol Encounters with Illegal Aliens:
During the last three full months of the Trump administration, the number of Border Patrol encounters with illegal aliens at America’s southern border was just under 73,000 per month. Under Biden-Harris, that figure skyrocketed. During the first three-and-a-half years of their administration, Border Patrol agents encountered more than 8.4 million illegal border crossers – an average of approximately 191,000 per month, or 2.3 million per year. The high-water mark for a single month was 301,982 encounters in December 2023.
Lawsuit against Texas over Immigration Law:
On January 3, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration sued Texas over what the administration characterized as that state’s “incredibly extreme” immigration law, Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), which not only gave local law-enforcement in Texas the authority to arrest migrants, but also gave judges statewide the power to order the removal and deportation of criminal aliens. Asserting that the state of Texas “cannot run its own immigration system,” Biden-Harris argued that SB 4 encroached upon the federal government’s “exclusive authority” to enforce immigration law.
Support Allowing 1.4 Million Illegals into the U.S. Each Year:
In 2024, Harris has voiced her support for S. 4361, the border bill that Senate Democrats first introduced in May 2024. She has said: “I strongly supported the comprehensive border security bill written … by a bipartisan group of senators, including one of the most conservative members of the United States Congress…. It was the strongest border security bill we have seen in decades.”
But aside from hiring an insignificant number of additional border security agents and funding the purchase of 100 additional inspection machines capable of detecting fentanyl, S. 4361 would do nothing to secure the U.S. southern border. The Heritage Foundation reports that under the terms of the bill:
- “The Secretary of Homeland Security has the discretion to [expel illegal border-crossers] after the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encounters an average of 4,000 illegal aliens daily for seven consecutive days. Secretary activation of the emergency authority becomes mandatory after the CBP encounters a 5,000 illegal-alien daily average for seven consecutive days or 8,500 in one day. Not counted in those numbers are unaccompanied children, parolees, those who claim a fear of persecution, have already been in the U.S. for 14 days, or already traveled beyond 100 miles from the southwest border.”
- “[F]amilies and children would be released without supervision.”
- “[The bill] would give aliens work authorization immediately upon release and create a bureaucratic third administrative appellate body with multiple chances for review, reconsideration, appeal, and motions to reopen their case. This would continue to encourage illegal aliens to submit fraudulent asylum claims to gain entry and remain and work in the U.S.”
- “[The bill would require] U.S. taxpayers to fund deportation defense attorneys for unaccompanied aliens under 14 years and aliens found to be incompetent.”
Harris has blamed Donald Trump for having prevented the passage of S. 4361: “He picked up the phone and called some friends in Congress and said, ‘stop the bill.’ Because, you see, he prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.”
Harris’ depiction of S. 4361 as a bipartisan effort was false. The lone Republican senator who voted in favor of advancing the bill was Lisa Murkowski, one of the most leftwing Republicans in the Senate.
Nor was the Senate’s failure to advance S. 4361 attributable solely to Republican opposition. Indeed, six Democrat senators voted against it as well.
When the Senate Republicans (other than Murkowski) opposed S. 4361, President Biden said: “Congressional Republicans do not care about securing the border or fixing America’s broken immigration system. If they did, they would have voted for the toughest border enforcement in history. By blocking the bipartisan border agreement, they put partisan politics ahead of our country’s national security.”
$450,000 Apiece to Illegals Separated at the Border under Trump:
On October 28, 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden-Harris administration was contemplating the possibility of issuing massive compensatory payments to illegal-migrant families whose members had been separated from one another for extended periods — i.e., parents separated from children — when apprehended by immigration authorities at America’s southern border under the Trump administration’s so-called “zero-tolerance policy,” which was in effect from April to June of 2018. According to people familiar with the matter, the average payment was expected to be approximately $450,000 per person — for a grand total of about $1 billion in taxpayer funds.
Illegals from 160 Countries:
On January 12, 2022, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News: “It’s not just people from Central America. It’s people from 160 different countries. They have been catching people from Yemen, who are on the terrorist watchlist. Why would they be coming to America that way?”
Taxpayer-Funded Legal Help for Illegal Aliens:
On January 21, 2022, Axios.com reported that the Biden-Harris administration was preparing to launch a new Legal Access at the Border (LAB) program — overseen by the Justice Department — to help prepare illegal migrants in seven border towns for the experience of navigating their way through the U.S. immigration system.
At Least 647,000 Criminal Aliens Roaming Free in U.S.:
On September 25, 2024, ICE reported that, among the more than 7 million illegal aliens who were under final deportation orders but were not being detained in ICE’s custody, there were 425,431 convicted criminals and 222,141 with pending criminal charges – all of them free to roam the streets of American communities nationwide. According to Fox News: “Those include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping conviction and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions. There are an additional 1,845 with pending homicide charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges, and 4,250 with assault charges.”
Covering up the Dangers of Their Open-Borders Policies:
In testimony he gave on September 20, 2024, Aaron Heitke, the retired Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol, said:
“The only true consequence we have to slow down and discourage people from coming to the United States illegally, is sending them back to their country of origin. Throughout the first three-plus years of this [Biden-Harris] administration, I saw a steady decrease in countries we could send people back to…. The inability to send people home meant that most people being arrested for illegal entry would either have to be detained or released. The current administration, however, from day one, made a point of decreasing the amount of detention space available nationwide…. The fact that so many illegal aliens are being released into the United States has spread worldwide very quickly. As this happened, the numbers the Border Patrol encountered illegally crossing the border increased exponentially.”
National Security Threats Entering the U.S.:
A DHS Inspector General report which was released at the beginning of October 2024, stated that: “Under current processes, CBP and ICE cannot ensure they are keeping high-risk noncitizens without identification from entering the country. Additionally, TSA cannot ensure its vetting and screening procedures prevent high-risk noncitizens who may pose a threat to the flying public from boarding domestic flights.”
According to a report released by the House Judiciary Committee on October 3, 2024, more than 1.7 million migrants encountered by immigration authorities at America’s southern border during the Biden-Harris administration hailed from 26 countries “of special interest” – i.e., nations known to promote terrorism and to pose a threat to U.S. national security. Among these nations were Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, North Korea, China, and Venezuela.
Federal Funding for Sanctuary Cities:
During the 2020 presidential campaign, President Biden, who would later boast that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, made clear his belief that sanctuary cities should be fully eligible for federal funding.
Promoting Citizenship for Illegal Aliens:
When Joe Biden ran for president in 2020, he made it clear throughout his campaign that he was in favor of granting citizenship to virtually every illegal alien residing in the United States—roughly 11 million people, by Biden’s estimate. When discussing this issue, he gave particular emphasis to those illegals affected by former President Obama’s 2012 DACA policy.
Biden also stressed the importance of granting citizenship to so-called “DREAMers” – i.e., people who would be eligible to benefit from the DREAM Act — legislation intended to protect almost anyone who entered the U.S. illegally when they were under the age of 16.
During an October 2020 presidential debate with Donald Trump, Biden said: “Within 100 days [of taking over the presidency], I’m going to send to the United States Congress a [proposed bill for] pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people. And all of those so-called Dreamers, those DACA kids, they’re going to be immediately certified to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship. We owe them, we owe them.” True to his word, Biden, on his first day in office as U.S. President, sent to Congress an immigration bill—the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021—proposing to create a path to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens. That same day, Biden also issued a memorandum “to preserve and fortify DACA.”
No Border Wall:
In March 2020, presidential candidate Joe Biden stated: “We don’t need a wall.” “There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my Administration,” he told NPR during an August 2020 interview.
Biden followed through on his promise when, on his first day as president, he issued a formal proclamation which stated that “building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border [between the U.S. and Mexico] is not a serious policy solution,” but rather, “is a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security.” “It shall be the policy of my Administration,” he added, “that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall.”
Vowed to End Almost All Deportations:
In a Democratic primary debate in March 2020, Joe Biden vowed that during his presidential administration’s first 100 days, “no one, no one will be deported at all.” “From that point on,” he added, “the only deportations that will take place are [for] commissions of felonies in the United States of America.”
On another occasion during his 2020 campaign, Biden said that immigration agents should “only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed [in the United States], and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony”—even though ICE reported 49,106 criminal convictions for DUI in fiscal year 2019 alone.
On his first day as president in January 2021, Biden proudly demonstrated his resolve in opposing deportations by issuing anexecutive order that revoked a 2017 order by which former President Trump had prioritized the removal of illegal aliens who had “committed acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense,” or who had “abused any program related to receipt of public benefits” (e.g., welfare and food stamps).
In accordance with President Biden’s clearly articulated intention to suspend virtually all deportations of illegal aliens, an internal ICE memo dated January 21, 2021 instructed ICE agents to immediately “stop all removals.”
Protect Criminal Illegals from the Police:
When candidate Biden was asked in March 2020 whether “undocumented immigrants, arrested by local police, [should] be turned over to immigration officials,” he replied: “Look, we are a nation of immigrants. Our future rests upon the Latino community being fully integrated…. Xenophobia is a disease.”
Expanded Taxpayer-Funded Attorneys for Migrant Children in U.S.:
In a May 18, 2021 presidential memorandum, President Biden expanded the ability of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) who had come to the U.S. illegally, to secure legal representation. Toward that end, Biden asked Congress to approve $1.5 billion in taxpayer funds to help local and state agencies cover the costs of additional public defenders. Biden also re-established the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable to “prioritize civil legal aid and expand access to federal programs,” according to a White House press release.
Claiming That Mass Migration Makes U.S. Demographics “So Much Better”:
During a September 30, 2022 speech for National Hispanic Heritage Month, President Biden celebrated what he viewed as the political benefits of the mass migration of Mexicans and Central Americans into the United States. “When in American history has there been a circumstance where one ethnicity has the potential to have such a profound impact on the direction of a country?” he asked rhetorically. “Twenty-six percent of every child who’s in school today speaks Spanish — 26 percent,” Biden continued. “We’ve had large waves of immigration before but the thing is, we just have so much opportunity to make this country so much better. I really mean it … so as my father would say, ‘Let’s go get ’em.’”
Subsidized Healthcare for Illegal Aliens:
On April 13, 2023, President Biden announced that the hundreds of thousands of migrants who had been brought to the U.S. illegally as minors and were covered by the Obama-era DACA program, would soon be able to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges. “They’re American in every way except for on paper,” Biden said in a Twitter video. “We need to give DREAMers the opportunities and support they deserve.”
On May 3, 2024, Politico reported: “President Joe Biden … announced a final rule that will open up Obamacare plans to tens of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as children but do not qualify for government health insurance because they lack legal status. Federal health officials estimate that roughly 100,000 people enrolled in the [DACA] program will sign up for subsidized plans through the health insurance marketplace over the next year under the rule, which the Biden administration proposed last year.”
Iran & the Nuclear Deal
Promoting the Iran Nuclear Deal:
On July 14, 2015, the Obama–Biden administration — along with the leaders of Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany — together finalized a nuclear agreement with Iran. Its official name was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), whose key elements included the following:
- Iran was permitted to keep and operate more than 5,000 nuclear centrifuges, machines necessary for enriching uranium to the degree necessary for the production of nuclear weapons.
- Iran received $150 billionin revenue from sanctions relief, even though Obama-Biden acknowledged that Iran would likely use some of that money to fund its military and terrorist activities.
- Iran was prohibitedfrom purchasing weapons from other countries for five years, and from buying missile technology for eight years. But there were two significant exceptions: Russia and China could continue to make weapons deals with Iran.
- Iran was given the discretion to blockinternational inspectors from its military installations.
- Only inspectorsfrom countries that had diplomatic relations with Iran would be given access to Iranian nuclear sites. Thus, there would be no American inspectors.
- Sanctions were liftedon critical parts of Iran’s military, including a previously existing travel ban against Qasem Suleimani, leader of the terrorist Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
- Iran would not be requiredto renounce terrorism against the United States, as Obama-Biden deemed such an expectation “unrealistic.”
- Iran would not be required to affirmits “clear and unambiguous … recognition of Israel’s right to exist” — a requirement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had pleaded for.
- Whatever restrictions were placed on Iran’s nuclear program, would expire — due to so-called “sunset clauses” — at various times over the ensuing 5 to 11 years.
Sen. Harris characterized the deal as “the best available option for blocking Iran from developing nuclear weapons capability and to avoid potentially disastrous military conflict in the Middle East.”
VP Biden dismissed the concerns of critics who warned that the sunset clauses pertaining to key parts of the agreement would “pave Iran’s path to a bomb.” Such naysayers simply “don’t get it, they’re wrong,” he claimed.
Iran Now Can Produce a Nuclear Weapon Quickly:
On February 5, 2024, Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reported: “Iran has enough weapons-grade uranium to produce its first nuclear weapon within a week and a total of six bombs within a month.”
Iran’s Cash Reserves Skyrocket Under Biden-Harris:
Iran had $122 billion in cash reserves in 2018, at which point the Trump administration began to implement its “maximum pressure” campaign of economic sanctions, causing those cash reserves to plummet down to $4 billion by the end of 2020.
But under the Biden-Harris administration, that figure rebounded dramatically. As The Washington Free Beacon reported on November 9, 2021: “The Biden administration’s decision to pursue diplomacy with Iran and unwind the Trump administration’s sanctions has helped the country recover from its cash shortage, according to the [International Monetary Fund]’s projections. The group says Iran’s cash reserves will top $31 billion by the end of the year and increase up to $42.9 billion by the end of 2022.”
Israel, Jews, & Palestinians:
Showing Respect for Claims That Israel Pursues “Ethnic Genocide”:
During a 2021 appearance at George Mason University, VP Harris nodded when a student asserted that U.S. funding for Israel’s anti-missile defense system, the Iron Dome, “hurts my heart because it’s an ethnic genocide.” Harris then assured the student that “your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth, should not be suppressed.”
“Strategy to Counter Islamophobia” after Hamas Massacre:
At daybreak on October 7, 2023, the Gaza-based Islamic terror group Hamas — explicitly dedicated to the mass murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel — carried out a massive, multi-front, surprise attack against the Jewish state. The terrorists fired at least 5,000 rockets into southern and central Israel while a host of armed Hamas fighters simultaneously infiltrated the Israeli border in dozens of separate locations by land, sea, and air (with paragliders). The attack had been planned in conjunction with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iran-sponsored terrorist groups Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. All told, the official Israeli casualty toll was more than 1,200 dead (including at least 32 Americans) and 4,500 injured. The Hamas barbarians also took more than 250 Israelis hostage, including dozens who were American citizens, and moved them to the Gaza Strip, where some would be murdered in cold blood while others would be raped or otherwise violated while being held as bargaining chips for future negotiations with Israel. These horrific Hamas attacks prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare, also on October 7, that Israel was officially “at war” with Hamas.
On November 1, 2023 — after a poll commissioned by the Arab American Institute showed that President Biden’s support among Arab Americans had dropped to 17% since he had voiced support for Israel’s retaliatory war on Hamas — VP Harris announced the unveiling of the Biden-Harris administration’s new “National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia.” “For years,” she said, “Muslims in America … have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks. As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents across America …”
Harris also said that the newly announced Strategy would “protect Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim from hate, bigotry and violence. And to address the concern that some government policies may discriminate against Muslims.”
Scolding Israel for Creating a “Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza:
While speaking at a March 3, 2024 commemoration ceremony for the historically significant Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, Harris scolded Israel for its post-October 7 military actions in Gaza:
“I must address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating. We have seen reports of families eating leaves or animal feed, women giving birth to malnourished babies with little or no medical care, and children dying from malnutrition and dehydration.
“As I have said many times, too many innocent Palestinians have been killed…. Our hearts break for … all the innocent people in Gaza who are suffering from what is clearly a humanitarian catastrophe. People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane…. And the Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses. They must open new border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid. They must ensure humanitarian personnel, sites, and convoys are not targeted. And they must work to restore basic services and promote order in Gaza so more food, water, and fuel can reach those in need.”
Lamenting the “Pain” & “Suffering” of Gazans:
On March 10, 2024, Harris issued the following statement on the ramifications of Israel’s military operations against Hamas in Gaza: “What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating…. President Biden and I will continue to work to ease the suffering in Gaza and support the right of the Palestinian people to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.”
Disrespecting Netanyahu:
On July 24, 2024, Harris joined many congressional Democrats in skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, choosing instead to deliver a speech at the national convention of the historically black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis.
Blaming Israel for Palestinian Civilian Deaths:
In a brief exchange with reporters on August 10, 2024, Harris was asked to comment on an Israeli airstrike earlier that day, which had been aimed at terrorists in a Hamas command-and-control center situated inside a mosque in a Gaza school compound. The placement of that Hamas facility was consistent with Hamas’ longstanding pattern of placing fighters and weaponry within or under mosques, schools, hospitals, and other civilian buildings — so that Israeli military strikes that may damage or destroy such places will cause maximum civilian casualties, which in turn can be fraudulently exploited as evidence of Israel’s alleged barbarism. According to the Hamas-controlled health authorities in Gaza, “more than 80” Gazans were killed in the August 10 airstrike. Unquestioningly accepting those figures, which made no distinction between civilian and terrorist deaths, Harris lamented that “there are far too many civilians who have been killed” in Gaza. “I mean, Israel has a right to go after the terrorists that are Hamas,” she explained. “But as I have said many, many times, they also have, I believe, an important responsibility to avoid civilian casualties.”
Secret Meeting with Anti-Semitic Mayor of Dearborn:
In August 2024, VP Harris, in an effort to win the support of Muslim and Arab voters, met secretly with Abdullah Hammoud, the anti-Semitic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, a Detroit suburb with an Arab population larger than that of any other city in America. Hammoud had a long history of contempt for Israel and the Jewish people. For example, on October 7, 2023 – immediately after the deadly Hamas attacks against the Jewish state – he posted on X: “Israel’s decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza make peace impossible and tragic violence inevitable. Israel has trapped millions of Palestinians in Gaza in what is recognized by the international community as the world’s largest open-air prison.” He also called for “the end of a racist apartheid system that criminalizes Palestinian existence” and seeks to “‘erase’ Palestinians entirely.”
Restored Funding for Palestinians:
On April 7, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration announced that in an effort to “restore credible engagement” by the Palestinians in their stalled peace talks with Israel, the U.S. would supply the Palestinians with $235 million in aid, thereby restoring part of the assistance that had been cut by former President Trump.
Restored U.S. Aid to the Palestinian Authority:
On March 23, 2018, then-President Trump signed into law the Taylor Force Act, which stopped American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a means of pressuring the PA to stop paying stipends, through its Palestinian Authority Martyr’s Fund, to the families of terrorists killed during the commission of their atrocities. In 2018 as well, the U.S. terminated its $300 million in aid to the United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA), in an effort to pressure the agency to stop using books replete with anti-Semitic passages in its Palestinian schools.
In 2021-2022, the Biden-Harris administration gave at least $417 million to UNRWA – even though the anti-Semitic texts used in its schools remained unchanged. Biden also renewed hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority, even though its terrorist subsidy program remained fully and defiantly in force. According to Biden-Harris, this renewed financial assistance to the PA did not violate the Taylor Force Act because it was of a “humanitarian” nature. But as Islam scholar Robert Spencer pointed out:
“[T]his is absurd; there was no exception made in the Taylor Force Act for ‘humanitarian’ aid. Besides, money is fungible. If you give the PA $300 million in ‘humanitarian aid,’ that will simply free up other sums it possesses to spend on such things as anti-Israel propaganda and, especially, on the Pay-For-Slay program that rewards past, and incentivizes future, acts of terrorism.”
Massive Spending on Palestinians:
On October 11, 2023, the Washington Free Beacon reported: “Between 2021 to 2024, the Biden administration is slated to spend ‘over $500 million in programming to support the Palestinian people,’ including those in Gaza…. Other programs allowed the administration to spend ‘up to $250 million over five years to advance peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians to enable a sustainable two-state solution.’”
Possibly Making U.S. Aid to Israel “Conditional”:
Regarding the Democrats’ increasing calls to condition U.S. aid to Israel on the Jewish state’s willingness to scale back its military operations in Gaza, President Biden said on November 24, 2023: “I think that’s a worthwhile thought. But … [w]e have to take this a piece at a time.”
Lamenting the “Suffering” of Palestinians:
On March 10, 2024, President Biden issued a statement to mark the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Among his remarks: “The war in Gaza has inflicted terrible suffering on the Palestinian people. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of them civilians, including thousands of children. Some are family members of American Muslims, who are deeply grieving their lost loved ones today. Nearly two million Palestinians have been displaced by the war; many are in urgent need of food, water, medicine, and shelter.”
Abstained from Opposing a UN Ceasefire Resolution:
On March 26, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration opted to abstain from voting against a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an “immediate” cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Because the U.S. possessed veto power as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, Biden-Harris could have vetoed — i.e., blocked — the resolution with a single “no” vote. Instead, the administration abstained, thereby allowing the resolution to pass, 14-0.
In response to the outcome of the vote, Prime Minister Netanyahu temporarily canceled plans for an Israeli delegation to visit Washington. And Hamas — emboldened by the passage of the UN resolution — demanded that Israel “halt the aggression against our people in Gaza and provide relief and assistance to them, as well as the return of displaced persons to their homes, and the withdrawal of occupation forces from the sector.”
No Intel Support for Israel vs. Hezbollah:
Between October 8, 2023 and September 24, 2024, the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which had compiled a vast arsenal of approximately 150,000 rockets and missiles, launched some 9,000 of its rockets into Israel — including 250 on September 23, 2024 alone. As the prospect of an Israeli ground invasion against Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon grew increasingly likely, the Biden-Harris administration declared emphatically that the U.S. military would not be providing any intelligence support for Israel if such an invasion were to materialize. As Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh put it in September 2024: “No. No support. When it comes to Lebanon, the U.S. military has no involvement in Israel’s operations.”
Opposed to Israeli Strikes Against Iranian Nuclear Sites:
On October 2, 2024 — a day after Iran had fired more than 180 missiles at Israel — President Biden told reporters, “We’ll be discussing with the Israelis what they’re going to do, but all seven of us [G7 nations] agree that they have a right to respond but they should respond proportionally.” Asked whether he would support Israel striking Iranian nuclear sites, Biden replied: “The answer is no.”
Threatening to Withhold U.S. Military Aid from Israel:
In October 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Security Lloyd Austin, fulfilling the policy directives of Biden and Harris, sent a letter to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer condemning the “increasingly dire humanitarian situation” that had resulted from the post-October 7, 2023 military incursion that Israel had launched against Hamas targets in Gaza. Demanding “urgent and sustained action by your government this month to reverse this trajectory,” the letter warned that if the Jewish state did not take “concrete measures” to address the Gaza situation within the next 30 days, the U.S. might cut off its military assistance to Israel.
“Immediate Ceasefire” in Gaza:
On May 19, 2024, President Biden, who boasted that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, delivered a commencement address at Morehouse College, where he made the following remarks regarding the Israel-Hamas war: “What’s happening in Gaza and Israel is heartbreaking…. Innocent Palestinians caught in the middle of all this: men, women, and children killed or displaced [and] in desperate need of water, food, and medicine. It’s a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. That’s why I’ve called for an immediate ceasefire — an immediate ceasefire to stop the fighting — bring the hostages home. And I’ve been working on a deal as we speak, working around the clock to lead an international effort to get more aid into Gaza, rebuild Gaza.”
Military Issues:
Ban on Anti-Satellite Missile Tests:
Speaking at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on April 18, 2022, VP Harris announced that the Biden-Harris administration — in an effort to make demilitarization an “international norm for responsible behavior in space” — had decided to unilaterally terminate America’s testing of anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles, a practice known to generate debris in outer space. Said Harris in her remarks: “Simply put, these tests are dangerous, and we will not conduct them. This debris presents a risk to the safety of our astronauts, our satellites and our growing commercial presence…. Even a piece of debris as small as a grain of sand could cause serious damage.”
While the Biden-Harris administration was declaring the end of America’s anti-satellite missile testing, the counterpart ASAT-testing programs of China, India, and Russia would continue unabated.
Muslims & Terrorism:
Lamenting “Islamophobia”:
On November 13, 2015 in Paris, a coordinated series of Islamic terrorist attacks killed 137 people and wounded more than 400. Three weeks later, a husband-and-wife pair of Islamic terrorists shot up a Christmas party in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and wounding 22. Soon after the latter atrocity, Harris, who was then the Attorney General of California, convened a session on “Islamophobia” that included participants from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and the Muslim Students Association — all of which had previously defended Islamic terrorists. Even after “the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino,” she explained, it would be wrong “to stoke fear and cast aspersions against an entire faith and the millions of law-abiding American Muslims.”
In June 2016, an Islamic terrorist gunman killed 49 people at a nightclub in Florida. Harris, who was running for the U.S. Senate at the time, blamed this attack – as well as those in San Bernardino and Paris — on “mental illness and violent extremism.” She also lamented that Muslims had become victims of widespread “Islamophobia” rooted in hate.
In July 2016, Harris passionately denounced “Islamophobia” during a Ramadan event at the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC), which spun off the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a close ally of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood which has been described by Islam expert Robert Spencer as “the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda.”
Today’s Muslim Refugees = Jews Who Fled the Third Reich:
In a series of tweets which she posted on January 27, 2017 — International Holocaust Memorial Day — Harris compared Jews who escaped Nazi genocide during the Third Reich, to modern-day Muslims seeking refuge in the United States from terrorism-connected countries in the Middle East. She also used the occasion to condemn President Trump’s then-recent executive order declaring a temporary moratorium on travel to the U.S. by people from a small handful of such terror-tied nations. Tweeted Harris:
- “On #HolocaustMemorialDay, Trump restrictedrefugees from Muslim-majority countries. Make no mistake — this is a Muslim ban.”
- “We can’t turn our backs on the millionsof refugees who are contributing to our country and our economy.”
- “During the Holocaust, we failed to let refugeeslike Anne Frank into our country. We can’t let history repeat itself.”
Harris’s Relationship with Hamas-Linked CAIR:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a Muslim extremist group co-founded in 1994 by individuals affiliated with the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). The IAP was created by senior Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook and functioned as Hamas’ public-relations and recruitment arm in the U.S.
In 2015, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR’s Los Angeles office, lauded Harris for including CAIR in an interfaith meeting with law-enforcement officials. He also stated that Harris “exemplified leadership” by having pledged to address the allegedly widespread scourge of “Islamophobia” in America.
In December 2015 — shortly after two Muslim terrorists had killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in a San Bernardino, California mass shooting — Harris hosted CAIR for an interfaith community event.
In 2016, CAIR’s political action committee donated $1,750 to Harris’ U.S. Senate campaign.
In October 2017, Harris said the following about CAIR: “The Council has strived to improve understanding about Islam, and move toward a future in which we welcome people of all faiths and nationalities into our neighborhoods and our schools, as well as [into] our hearts and our minds.”
In September 2018, Harris wrote a letter of support to CAIR on the occasion of the organization’s 24th anniversary. Said the letter: “As you celebrate this milestone, please accept my gratitude and admiration for your tireless work to promote peace, justice, and mutual understanding. For nearly a quarter century, CAIR has worked diligently to dismantle Islamophobic rhetoric, mobilize the American Muslim community, and encourage civic engagement…. In the face of intolerant and exclusionary policies, CAIR has steadfastly defended the Constitutional rights of American Muslims … Today, as we continue to promote tolerance and eliminate hate in our society, CAIR’s work remains as important as it was the day of its founding in 1994.”
CAIR advised Harris on community issues during her time as Attorney General and Senator in California.
Harris & Biden’s Ties to Radical Muslims:
In September 2024, “during the blessed last 10 days of Ramadan,” VP Harris posed for a photo with those whom she called “our Administration’s incredible Muslim team.” Reporter Daniel Greenfield pointed out the identities of some notable members of that team:
- “Nasrina Bargzie, [Harris’] deputy counsel and future Muslim liaison, who had been interviewed by the FBI after 9/11 [and] wore orange [as a gesture of solidarity with] the Islamic terrorists at Gitmo”
- “Mazen Basrawi, Biden’s current Muslim liaison, who had attended a conference honoring one of the unindicted co-conspirators of the World Trade Center bombing, and whose appointment was hailed by Muslim Brotherhood groups”
- “Brenda Abdelall, who … had falsely accused Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ as part of a ‘brutal occupation’ [and …] appeared at a convention where speakers … called for a caliphate ruled by Islamic law and freeing Islamic terrorists [before becoming] the ‘assistant secretary for partnership and engagement’ at the Department of Homeland Security in the Biden-Harris administration”
- “Yousra Fazili, who had studied Islamic religious law … at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, notorious for its terrorist teachings, and represented the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations co-founded by figures tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden, before becoming the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs [under Biden-Harris]”
- “Maher Bitar, a former executive board member of Students for Justice in Palestine, a campus hate group which has since endorsed Hamas and the atrocities of October 7, [before he became] the Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council [under Biden-Harris]”
- “Reema Dodin, who had described suicide bombings against Jews by Muslim terrorists as ‘the last resort of a desperate people’ [before being appointed by Biden-Harris] as the deputy director for the Office of Legislative Affairs”
- “Abdullah Hasan, a recipient of a CAIR Islamic Scholarship Fund who defended BDS [the Hamas-inspired Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctionsmovement] … and claimed that ‘Islamophobia is rampant even in our highest democratic institutions’ like the Supreme Court” before she became an assistant press secretary for the Biden-Harris administration
- “Uzra Zeya [who …] helped compile material for a book claiming that Jews secretly control the United States [and] became the Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights [in the Biden-Harris administration]”
Religious Liberty:
Viewing Catholics As Unqualified to Be Federal Judges:
Harris believes that practicing Catholics who take seriously the doctrines of their faith are fundamentally unfit to serve as federal judges, as evidenced by the way she treated Nebraska District Judge nominee Brian Buescher during his November 2018 Senate confirmation hearing. Harris emphasized the significance of Buescher’s 25-year association with the Knights of Columbus (KOC), a charity that embraces Catholic doctrines stipulating that abortion is “a crime against human life.” In a written question to Buescher, Harris asked: “In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as ‘a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.’ Mr. Anderson later said ‘abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale.’ Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?”
As columnist Kevin D. Williamson subsequently noted in the New York Post: “[T]he Constitution explicitly forbids imposing any religious test for public office, which is what [Senator Harris] here propose[s] to do for the federal judiciary. The second and related issue is that it is not the Knights of Columbus that opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, but the Catholic Church. If a KOC member is ineligible to serve on the federal bench because of the beliefs of that organization, then every Catholic in the United States — and the world, for that matter, all 1.2 billion of them — is ineligible for similar office, since they belong to a much larger and much more prominent organization that is the source of those ‘extreme positions.’”
Health Insurers Must Cover Contraception & Sterilization:
Harris has long supported an Obama-era healthcare regulation dating back to August 1, 2011 – nearly 17 months after the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was signed into law – when then-Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius announced a new mandate that required all Obamacare-compliant insurance plans to cover at least one form of female birth control, including sterilization and abortifacients. This mandate was unacceptable to many individuals and businesses whose moral or religious beliefs did not permit them to fund or participate in such insurance plans. Such was the case with Hobby Lobby, an arts-and-crafts store chain owned by devout Christians openly dedicated to “honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles.” Thus, Hobby Lobby asked HHS if, because of its religious convictions, it could be exempt from the Obamacare mandate.
As the attorney general of California, Harris in 2014 filed an amicus brief exhorting the Supreme Court to refuse Hobby Lobby’s request. Asserting that “every American deserves access to quality, comprehensive healthcare,” she argued that “a woman’s access to essential services, including contraception, should not be restricted because of the religious views of her employer—particularly when the right to these services is protected under federal law.” The Supreme Court eventually sided with Hobby Lobby and struck down the Obamacare mandate in 2014.
Religious Liberty & The Equality Act:
The Equality Act was designed to force employers and workers to either accept leftwing dogma regarding marriage, sexuality, and gender, or lose their businesses and jobs. A widely publicized example of what the Equality Act sought to achieve involved Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who declined to create a custom cake for a same-sex wedding and was subsequently sued by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC) for discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. As the Alliance Defending Freedom – a Christian law firm “committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life” — explains: “In an exchange lasting about 30 seconds, Phillips politely declined, explaining that he would gladly make them any other type of baked item they wanted, but that he could not design a cake promoting a same-sex ceremony because of his faith.”
- When the Trump Justice Department in 2017 voiced support for Phillips, Sen. Harris tweeted: “Shameon the Justice Department for siding with discrimination. It has no place in our society.”
- When the Supreme Court in 2018 issued a 7-2 rulingin Phillips’ favor, Sen. Harris tweeted: “No business should be allowed to discriminate against any American based on who they are or who they love. Our constitution requires equal protection under the law. Full stop.”
- In January 2019, Sen. Harris tweeted: “Passing the Equality Act won’t only end discrimination against sexual orientation and gender identity, it’s a pivotal part in ending homophobia and transphobia and moving our culture forward to be more inclusive and respectful.”
- In June 2023, VP Harris stated: “President Biden and I will continue to rigorously enforce federal anti-discrimination protections and fight for the right of all people to participate equally in our society. And as a crucial part of that fight, we continue to call on Congress to pass the Equality Act.”
In an address to the Human Rights Campaign in June 2019, Joe Biden said, “I promise you, if I’m elected president it [passage of the Equality Act] will be the first thing I ask to be done.” “This is our soul, dammit, this is who we have to be,” Biden expanded. “… This is our real moral obligation.”
In late October 2020, Biden again pledged: “I will make enactment of the Equality Act a top legislative priority during my first 100 days — a priority that Donald Trump opposes.”
Religious Liberty & The “Do No Harm” Act:
In February 2019, Harris introduced the Do No Harm Act in the U.S. Senate, to counter the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993 and similar legislation that existed at the state level in about 20 U.S. states. As Kenneth Craycraft writes in First Things: “The purpose of RFRA was to … carve out exemptions from generally applicable laws for some religious practices that are fundamental to religious belief. For example, a RFRA law might protect a church from another law that prohibits consideration of sexual orientation for employment, promotion, or retention. Or it might protect a physician who participates in public health reimbursement programs from a law requiring such physicians to perform a broad scope of so-called healthcare services, such as abortion.”
Sen. Harris stated that the Do No Harm Act’s overriding objective was to prevent RFRA laws from “being used to deny” such things as “healthcare access,… coverage or services to which persons are otherwise legally entitled.”
In making her case for the Do No Harm Act, Harris defined “religious freedom” very narrowly as “the freedom to worship,” as guaranteed by the First Amendment. But as Kenneth Craycraft points out:
“In Harris’s tendentious reading, ‘free exercise’ of religion means ‘freedom to worship,’ and nothing more. If the doors of the church are not locked and guarded, or if you are not prevented from praying in your home, you have the full range of ‘the First Amendment guarantee,’ and you are guaranteed nothing more.… Free exercise of religion equals private prayer or conviction, and nothing else.”
Rejecting the Right to Refuse Service Based on Moral Objections:
On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled on 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a case that centered around the question of whether creative businesses had a right to refuse to serve LGBTQ+ customers because of a business owner’s First Amendment free-speech rights. In its 6-3 decision, the Court concluded that an evangelical Christian businesswoman had a right to post a notice that said, “no [wedding websites] will be sold if they will be used for gay marriages.”
President Biden, who boasted that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, criticized the decision in a statement saying that “no person should face discrimination simply because of who they are or who they love.” “The Supreme Court’s disappointing decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis undermines that basic truth,” he added, “and painfully it comes during Pride month when millions of Americans across the country join together to celebrate the contributions, resilience, and strength of the LGBTQI+ community.”
Reparations for Slavery:
In January 2019, Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee introduced legislation, H.R. 40, designed to address, by means of reparations payments, the “lingering negative effects of slavery on living African Americans and society.” The bill had 125 co-sponsors, all Democrats. Senator Harris, for her part, said “we need to study the effects of generations of discrimination and institutional racism and determine what can be done, in terms of intervention, to correct course.”
In a March 2019 interview with NPR, Sen. Harris said that “we need to study the effects of generations of discrimination and institutional racism and determine what can be done, in terms of intervention, to correct course.” When NPR host Steve Inskeep asked Harris to outline “one possible form” that “reparations for slavery and racial discrimination … could take,” she answered:
“Sure. You can look at the issue of untreated and undiagnosed trauma. African-Americans have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure. It is environmental. It is centuries of slavery, which was a form of violence where women were raped, where children were taken from their parents — violence associated with slavery. And that never — there was never any real intervention to break up what had been generations of people experiencing the highest forms of trauma. And trauma, undiagnosed and untreated, leads to physiological outcomes. […] You need to put resources and direct resources — extra resources — into those communities that have experienced that trauma.”
In April 2019, Sen. Harris delivered a speech at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention. After Harris had finished her remarks, Sharpton asked her if she would, as president, sign H.R. 40 into law. “When I am elected president, I will sign that bill,” Harris replied, eliciting thunderous applause and Black Power fist salutes from those in attendance.
In August 2019, Sen. Harris said: “This stuff [the case for reparations] needs to be studied. Because America needs a history lesson, to be honest about it, and we need to study it in a way that we are having a very comprehensive and fact-based conversation about policies and the connection between those policies and harm if we’re going to have a productive conversation. It can’t just be, ‘Hey … write some checks.’ […] I don’t support an idea or a notion that after all this, we’re going to say, ‘Okay, I’m going to write you a check, and then be quiet.’ Because that won’t solve the problem, which is the systemic issues that are present and will continue to exist, whether or not you write a check.”
In July 2024, Newsweek quoted Harris as having told the black publication The Root: “I think there has to be some form of reparations and we could discuss what that is, but look, we’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery. We’re looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow. We’re looking at legalized segregation, and in fact segregation on so many levels that exist today based on race, and there has not been any kind of intervention done understanding the harm and the damage that occurred, to correct [the] course. And so we are seeing the effects of all those years play out still today.”
Social Security:
No Privatization of Social Security:
Harris believes that the Social Security system should remain entirely and permanently under federal control, with no movement whatsoever toward any degree of privatization.
Statehood for D.C. & Puerto Rico:
Statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico would guarantee four additional Democrat seats in the U.S. Senate. Though Harris has been careful not to tip her hand regarding her support for such measures, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced in August 2024 that she and the capital city’s 51 delegates at the Democratic National Convention were enthusiastically supporting Harris. “We know Kamala Harris will fight for our freedom and we will work together to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state!” said Bowser. “The District of Columbia is proud to cast its 51 votes for the next president of the United States, Kamala Harris.”
On April 22, 2021, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted to transform Washington, D.C. into a state on a pure party-line vote of 216-208. The Biden-Harris administration expressed its support for the measure, with statements like these:
- “Establishing [D.C.] as the 51st state will make our Union stronger and more just.”
- “For far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington, D.C. have been deprived of full representation in the U.S. Congress.”
- “This taxation without representation and denial of self-governance is an affront to the democratic values on which our Nation was founded. H.R. 51 rights this wrong by making Washington, D.C. a state and providing its residents with long overdue full representation in Congress.”
The Democratic Party’s official 2024 platform said: “We unequivocally support statehood for D.C. […] Democrats support the enactment of the Puerto Rico Status Act/H.R. 2757, and promote full civic and political representation for Puerto Ricans.”
In a September 30, 2020 interview, Democrat Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said that he would seek to turn Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. into states if Democrats were to win both the White House and a majority in the U.S. Senate in the upcoming November elections. “I’m not busting my chops to become Majority Leader to do very little or nothing,” he explained. “We are going to get a whole lot done. And as I’ve said, everything, everything is on the table.” “I would — believe me, on D.C. and Puerto Rico, particularly if Puerto Rico votes for it, D.C. already has voted for it and wants it. I’d love to make them states,” Schumer elaborated.
In a January 30, 2021 interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC, Schumer, who was now the Senate Majority Leader, re-emphasized his commitment to bringing transformational change to the United States: “Well, Rev, we have one goal: big, bold change in America” which would include “dealing with D.C. and Puerto Rican statehood.”
On August 7, 2024, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said: “Let’s assume our worst nightmare—the Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate. The first thing they’ll do is get rid of the [Senate] filibuster. Second, you’ll have two new states: D.C., Puerto Rico. That’s four new Democratic senators in perpetuity.”
Supreme Court:
Democrats Favor Packing the Supreme Court:
In recent years, numerous Democrats have put forth the idea of “packing” the Supreme Court – i.e., increasing the number of justices from 9 to perhaps 13 or 15, with all the additions being activists who could be counted upon to rule in favor of Democrat agenda items. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly refused to give his opinion on court-packing: “You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over,” he told reporters in October 2020. When a reporter asked Biden, “don’t the voters deserve to know [your position on Court-packing]?” Biden answered: “No, they don’t.”
On April 9, 2021, President Biden announced that he had signed an executive order creating a commission to study the possibility of packing the Supreme Court with additional Justices. To co-chair the commission, Biden appointed two left-wing partisans who had previously served in the Obama administration: Bob Bauer and Cristina Rodriguez.
At an April 15, 2021 news conference, Rep. Ed Markey unveiled the Judiciary Act Of 2021, which called for expanding the Supreme Court from 9 Justices to 13. The bill was co-sponsored by 59 House Democrats.
Harris Would Favor Packing the Supreme Court:
During a 2020 interview on MSNBC, Sen. Harris stated that she was “1,000 percent” in support of President Biden’s refusal to state publicly whether or not he was in favor of expanding the Supreme Court. Said Harris: “Joe’s been very clear that he is going to pay attention to the fact — and I’m with him on this 1,000 percent — pay attention to the fact that right now … people are voting. They’re voting…. People will be voting up until Election Day, and they have a right, in an election, to elect their next president, who then will make the decision about who will be the nominee.”
In 2019, Harris had said the following about the possibility of packing the Court: “We are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court. We have to take this challenge head on, and everything is on the table to do that.”
Transgender Issues:
Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Surgeries for Prison Inmates:
In 2014, Attorney General Harris agreed to a settlement with Rodney Quine, a transgender prisoner who was serving a life sentence for murder without possibility of parole. The settlement — which came after Quine’s attorneys had argued that a denial of their client’s desire to change his genitalia would violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” — permitted the prisoner to undergo a costly sex-change operation at taxpayer expense. Harris called the settlement “an important step forward in the ongoing effort to protect transgender rights in California.”
On another occasion, Harris, who pushed for the use of taxpayer dollars to fund the sex-change operation of a biological man / transgender woman who was in prison for having murdered three people, said: “I made sure that they changed the policy so that every transgender inmate would have access.”
Job Applicants Can Choose from 9 Sets of Gender Pronouns:
Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign website allows potential hires applying for a job to select from nine separate sets of gender pronouns. Aside from the traditional “he/him” and “she/her,” applicants may also choose from: “they/them,” “ey/em,” or “xe/xem” “ze/hir,” “hir/hir,” “hu/hu,” and “fae/faer.” The last of those options is used by people who consider themselves to be fairies or witches.
Transgenders Can Use the Public Bathroom of Their Choice:
Harris once filed a court brief supporting the position that transgender people should be permitted to access the bathroom of their choice in public places.
Taxpayer-Funded Sex-Change Surgeries for Illegal Aliens:
In 2020, the ACLU gave all presidential primary participants a survey asking whether or not they supported the use of taxpayer dollars to fund sex-change operations for illegal aliens. Responding that “transitional treatment is a medical necessity,” Harris pledged to direct “all federal agencies responsible for providing essential health care to provide transitional treatment.” Moreover, she said that she had already supported a similar policy during her tenure as Attorney General of California: “It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition. That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender transition surgery to state inmates … while incarcerated or detained.”
“Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors:
The Daily Wire explains: “Gender-affirming care is a phrase used by transgender activists and media to mask the more grisly sounding transgender top and bottom surgeries, including removing a biological woman’s breasts, removing a biological man’s genitals, sculpting a fake penis on a biological woman, and more. Social affirmation, puberty blockers, and hormones also fall under the ‘gender-affirming care’ umbrella.” According to DoNoHarmMedicine.org, “gender-affirming” care is “based on the dangerous premise that any child who has distress that he or she thinks is related to their sex should automatically be treated with social transition to the sex of their choice followed by hormonal interventions and then possibly surgery to remove healthy body parts,” while “underlying mental health problems are usually not addressed.”
In a letter dated March 31, 2022, Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General with the Biden-Harris DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, warned all states’ Attorneys General that the DOJ would punish instances of what it viewed as discrimination by which “transgender youth” were denied “gender-affirming care,” including medical and drug treatments (e.g., puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries).
On April 29, 2022, the Biden-Harris DOJ filed a complaint challenging S.B. 184, a recently passed Alabama Senate Bill that made it a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for doctors to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to children seeking to undergo gender transition. Arguing that the criminalization of children’s sexual transitioning violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal-protection-under-the-law for all people, the DOJ wrote: “S.B. 184 … discriminates against transgender youth by denying them access to certain forms of medically necessary care.”
On March 31, 2022 — “Transgender Day of Visibility” — the Biden-Harris administration stated that the “early” use of transgender surgeries, hormone treatments, and affirmations are “crucial” for the physical and psychological well-being of children and teenagers who identify as transgender and nonbinary.
During an April 5, 2023 press briefing, RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre: “Today Indiana just banned puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and gender transition surgeries for minors. I’m wondering what the president’s reaction is to the Indiana governor signing that bill into law. And does the president have a position on at what age these kinds of therapies and surgeries are appropriate?” Jean-Pierre replied: “That’s something for a child and their parents to decide, it’s not something we believe should be decided by legislators. So I’ll leave it there.”
During her 2024 presidential campaign, Harris was careful not to say whether or not she supported transgender surgeries or hormone treatments for minors, but a number of LGBTQ organizations that endorse such procedures for children enthusiastically supported the Harris-Walz ticket. Among those groups were the ACLU, GLAAD, Advocates for Trans Equality, and the Human Rights Campaign.
Expand Title IX to Include Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation:
In the spring and summer of 2024, twenty-six U.S. states sued the Department of Education and its Secretary, Miguel Cardona, over the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed changes to the rules of Title IX, a 1972 law banning sex-based discrimination at all federally funded schools. The Biden-Harris changes, which extended the original ban to include also discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, went into effect on August 1, 2024. The new Biden-Harris framework:
- prohibits any policy that “prevents a person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with their gender identity”
- allows biological men to take scholarship money intended specifically for girls and women, simply by declaring that they identify as females
- gives biological males who identify as transgender females full accessto women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, school dormitories, etc.
- mandates that all students, teachers, coaches, etc. in any program that receives federal funding must use biologically incorrect pronouns when addressing or referring to people identifying as transgender – lest they be charged with “hate speech” transgressions
- can deny future federal funding to any school or other institution that fails to comply with the new changes
Allow Biological Boys to Play on Girls’ Sports Teams:
On October 19, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration denounced the Texas legislature’s recent passage of a bill designed to ban biological boys from playing on girls’ sports teams. “This hateful bill in Texas is just the latest example of Republican state lawmakers using legislation to target transgender kids — whom the president believes are some of the bravest Americans — in order to score political points,” said White House spokesman Ike Hajinazarian. “These anti-transgender bills are nothing more than bullying disguised as legislation and undermine our nation’s core values.”
Force Doctors to Perform Transgender Procedures on Demand:
On April 20, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration filed an appeal seeking to force doctors and hospitals to perform transgender-related procedures and surgeries even if they objected on moral or religious grounds. The appeal was made in response to a January court ruling that had struck down a Biden-Harris effort to punish doctors for “sex discrimination” violations if they refused to perform transgender procedures requested by a patient.
HHS Asks Court to Overrule Order Blocking Transgender Care:
In late March 2022, the Biden-Harris Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to overrule a 2021 lower court order in the case of Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra, which protected health insurance providers from mandates that would require them to cover the costs of transgender-related medicines, gender-transitioning surgeries, therapies, and procedures.
Banning “Gender-Affirming Care” for Children Is “Close to Sinful”:
In a March 13, 2023 interview with The Daily Show, President Biden, who boasted that Harris invariably agreed with him on policy issues, criticized Florida’s recently enacted bans on: (a) transgender medications and surgeries for children, and (b) the promotion of gender ideology in the classroom. “What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful,” said Biden. “I mean it’s just terrible what they’re doing.”
Added Biden: “It’s not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘You know, I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman.’ … They’re human beings, they love and have feelings. … It’s cruel. We [should] make sure we pass [federal] legislation like we passed on same-sex marriage. You mess with that, you’re breaking the law and you’re going to be held accountable.”
Permitting Lessons on Sexuality & Gender in Early Grades:
In February 2022, the Florida legislature was considering a bill designed to forbid instruction on sexual orientation, gender identity, and transgenderism to children in kindergarten through third grade. Democrat and leftwing opponents of the legislation dubbed it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, falsely implying that the bill sought to forbid the use of the word “gay” in classrooms for younger children. President Biden opposed the legislation from the start. On February 8, 2022, he tweeted: “I want every member of the LGBTQI+ community — especially the kids who will be impacted by this hateful bill — to know that you are loved and accepted just as you are. I have your back, and my Administration will continue to fight for the protections and safety you deserve.” The Florida legislature eventually passed the bill on March 8, 2022.
Voting Rights:
The For The People Act:
The Heritage Foundation has reported that H.R. 1, The For the People Act of 2021, sought to:
- “seize [for the federal government] the authority of states to regulate voter registration and the voting process by forcing states to implement early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration, and no-fault absentee balloting”
- “make it easier to commit fraud and promote chaos at the polls through same-day registration, as election officials would have no time to verify the accuracy of voter registration information and the eligibility of an individual to vote …”
- “degrade the accuracy of registration lists by requiring states to automatically register all individuals (as opposed to ‘citizens’) from state and federal databases”
- “constitute a recipe for massive voter registration fraud by hackers and cyber criminals through online voter registration”
- “make it a criminal offense for a state official to reject a voter registration application … because the official believes the individual is ineligible to vote”
- “require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precincts, overriding the precinct system used by almost all states [to] prevent election fraud”
- “mandate no-fault absentee ballots, which are the tool of choice for vote thieves”
- “ban witness signature or notarization requirements for absentee ballots”
- “require states to allow … vote harvesting … so that any third parties—including campaign staffers and political consultants—can pick up and deliver absentee ballots”
- “prevent election officials from checking the eligibility and qualifications of voters and removing ineligible voters”
- “ban state voter ID laws by forcing states to allow individuals to vote without an ID and merely signing a statement in which they claim they are who they say they are”
- “require states to allow 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to register”
- “require states to restore the ability of felons to vote the moment they are out of prison, regardless of uncompleted parole, probation, or restitution requirements”
- “transfer the right to draw congressional districts from state legislatures to ‘independent’ commissions whose members are unaccountable to voters”
- “authorize … the IRS to investigate and consider the political and policy positions of nonprofit organizations before granting tax-exempt status”
In a March 1, 2021 statement of policy, the Biden-Harris White House said of H.R. 1: “[T]his landmark legislation is urgently needed to protect the right to vote and the integrity of our elections and to repair and strengthen American democracy.”
On June 22, 2021, VP Harris stated: “I want to be clear that our administration remains determined to work with Congress to pass The For The People Act.”
During a July 13, 2021 speech in Philadelphia, President Biden said: “Vice President Harris and I have spent our careers doing this work. And I’ve asked her to lead, to bring people together to protect the right to vote and our democracy. And it starts with continuing the fight to pass H.R.1, The For the People Act. That bill — that bill would help end voter suppression in the states…. Last month, Republicans opposed even debating, even considering [The] For the People Act. Senate Democrats stood united to protect our democracy and the sanctity of the vote. We must pass The For The People Act. It’s a national imperative.”
Opponents of Election-Integrity Legislation:
On July 12, 2021, at least 51 of the 67 Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives fled their state and flew to Washington, D.C., so as to deny Texas Republicans the quorum needed to pass new voter-integrity bills to which the Democrats objected. The proposed legislation called for such things as: (a) ID requirements for people voting by mail, and (b) prohibitions barring local election officials from sending vote-by-mail applications to people who had not requested them. Sen. Harris praised the Democrats who left the state, saying: “I applaud them standing for the rights of all Americans and all Texans to express their voice through their vote, unencumbered.” “I will say that they are leaders who are marching in the path that so many others before did when they fought and many died for our right to vote,” she added.
In March 2021, the Georgia state legislature passed a law (SB 202) that contained provisions designed to eliminate voter fraud and election corruption — most notably, by increasing requirements for voter ID. President Biden characterized the law as racist, describing it as “Jim Crow on steroids.” On another occasion, he said that such “most pernicious” “new Jim Crow laws” were “antithetical to who we are” and “mak[e] Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.” Biden pledged, moreover, to do “everything in my power” to prevent the enactment of other, similar laws. On June 25, 2021, the Biden-Harris DOJ announced that it was suing Georgia over SB 202.
During a July 13, 2021 speech in Philadelphia, President Biden said: “This year alone, 17 states have enacted — not just proposed, but enacted — 28 new laws to make it harder for Americans to vote, not to mention — and catch this — nearly 400 additional bills Republican members of the state legislatures are trying to pass. The 21st century Jim Crow assault is real…. This is election subversion. It’s the most dangerous threat to voting and the integrity of free and fair elections in our history…. We’re are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole. Since the Civil War.”
During an August 2024 presidential campaign rally in Arizona, VP Harris vowed that she would “finally pass” the Freedom to Vote Act, which would: (a) enact no-excuse mail-in voting for every eligible voter in the country; (b) permit all registrants to use drop boxes to submit their absentee ballots; and (c) automatically register voters unless they proactively chose to opt out.
DOJ Sues Arizona over Voter Citizenship Requirement:
The Biden-Harris administration objected strongly to a 2022 Arizona law requiring people to show documents proving their U.S. citizenship before they could vote in a presidential election or vote by mail in any federal election. The law was slated to take effect at the start of 2023.
On June 27, 2022, Kristen Clarke, the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, sent Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich a letter threatening a federal lawsuit designed to block the aforementioned statute. On July 1, Brnovich replied to Clarke with a letter claiming that his state’s new law was a “common sense” measure, and questioning whether the federal government was “attempting to undermine our [Arizona’s] sovereignty and destabilize our election infrastructure.”
On July 5, 2022, the DOJ sued to block the enactment of the Arizona law. According to Clarke, the statute’s “onerous documentary proof of citizenship requirement” constituted a “textbook violation” of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which required all states to accept a federal voter-registration form that asked voters to attest under penalty of perjury that they were citizens, but did not require them to show documented proof of their citizenship. “For nearly three decades, the National Voter Registration Act has helped to move states in the right direction by eliminating unnecessary requirements that have historically made it harder for eligible voters to access the registration rolls,” Clarke stated in a press release. “Arizona has passed a law that turns the clock back on progress by imposing unlawful and unnecessary requirements that would block eligible voters from the registration rolls for certain federal elections.”
DOJ Sues Virginia for Removing Non-Citizens from Voter Rolls:
On October 11, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it was filing a lawsuit against Virginia and its Board of Elections because of that state’s efforts to enforce a 2006 law mandating the removal of non-citizens from its voter lists. Those efforts were being made in compliance with an August 7th executive order by which Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin required “all registrars” to “cancel the registrations of non-citizens who have registered to vote in a local, state, or federal election by falsely claiming that they are a citizen, including the forging of documentation or any other means of improper registration.” When making the case for his executive order, Youngkin stated that “79,867 deceased voters” had been removed from Virginia’s voter rolls in 2023 alone, and another “6,303 non-citizens” had been removed between January 2022 and July 2024.
In a moderated conversation at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership Summit on May 13, 2024, Harris spoke about how racial minorities could overcome societal barriers that, in her view, had the potential to thwart their ambitions in various walks of life:
“[H]ere’s the thing about breaking barriers. Breaking barriers does not mean you start on one side of the barrier and you end up on the other side. There’s breaking involved. And when you break things, you get cut and you may bleed. And it is worth it every time. Every time.
“And so, to especially the young people here, I say to you: When you walk in those rooms being the only one that looks like you, the only one with your background, you walk in those rooms chin up, shoulders back. Be it a meeting room, a boardroom, a courtroom, a hearing room, you walk in those rooms knowing that we are all in that room with you, applauding you on and expecting certain things from you, including that you will not be silent in those rooms and that we expect that from you because we also expect that you will internalize and know we’re there with you. And so, your voice can be strong.
“It is — as … my mother would say to me, ‘Don’t you ever let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are.’ Don’t ever carry as a personal burden your capacity to do whatever you dream and aspire to do based on other people’s limited ability to see who can do what.
“This is part of what’s involved, is that we have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open. Sometimes they won’t. And then you need to kick that fucking door down.”
On July 21, 2024, Joe Biden, whose polling numbers and political donations were dropping ever-more precipitously with each passing day, announced that he was terminating his reelection campaign and endorsed Vice President Harris to replace him at the top of the Democratic Party ticket. In a social media post which he released that afternoon, Biden wrote:
“My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.”
On July 22, 2024, CNN.com reported:
“After potential rivals, lawmakers, governors and influential labor and advocacy groups all lined up behind Vice President Kamala Harris, a wave of endorsements from state delegations Monday evening pushed her over the threshold needed to secure the Democratic nomination. She’s been backed by well more than the 1,976 pledged delegates needed to win the nomination on the first ballot, according to CNN’s delegate estimate — a moment that arrived on the first full day of her campaign.”
In a speech she delivered at her presidential campaign’s headquarters in Delaware on the night of July 22, 2024, Harris stated that during her time as a district attorney and as California attorney general, she “took on perpetrators of all kinds.” “Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own game,” she said. “So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.”
On August 6, 2024, Harris, who had recently been named as the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nominee, announced her choice of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate for the 2024 election.
The deputy campaign manager of Harris’ presidential bid was Rob Flaherty, who previously had served as President Biden’s digital director. Flaherty was a great admirer of Hasan Piker, who, according to Fox News, was a “vocal anti-America and anti-Israel Twitch star” who had once declared that “America deserved 9/11.” “We need a whole thriving ecosystem,” Flaherty said. “… It’s not just Hasan Piker. We should have more Hasan Pikers.”
During a presidential campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona in August 2024, Harris said she would support amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens residing in the United States, through “comprehensive reform.” “We know our immigration system is broken and we know what it takes to fix it: comprehensive reform,” she stated. “That includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.”
During that same August 2024 presidential campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, Harris vowed that she would “finally pass” the Freedom to Vote Act, which would: (a) enact no-excuse mail-in voting for every eligible voter in the country; (b) permit all registrants to use drop boxes to submit their mail-in ballots; and (c) automatically register voters unless they proactively choose to opt out.
At an August 10, 2024 campaign rally in Las Vegas, Harris advocated for the elimination of taxes on tips for hospitality and service workers, a policy proposal first endorsed by Trump two months earlier. “It is my promise to everyone here [that] when I am president,” Harris told the crowd, “we will continue our fighting for working families of America, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.”
But that pledge contradicted the Biden-Harris administration’s well-established position on such taxes. As the Daily Caller reported on August 12, 2024:
“The Biden-Harris administration’s Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced in February 2023 that the agencies would implement a new service industry tip reporting program allowing the federal government to force service and hospitality workers to declare their tips as income. The Service Industry Tip Compliance Agreement (SITCA) program works by allowing the federal government to monitor employers’ point-of-sale systems to ‘improve tip reporting compliance.’”
On August 26, 2024, former President Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony honoring the 13 American soldiers who had been killed-in-action because of the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous, chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan three years earlier. Neither Biden nor Harris took part in the August 26 event, but Harris, for her part, said in an X post that day: “It is not a place for politics. And yet, as was reported this week, Donald Trump’s team chose to film a video there, resulting in an altercation with cemetery staff. Let me be clear: the former president disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt. This is nothing new from Donald Trump. This is a man who has called our fallen service members ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ and disparaged Medal of Honor recipients.” Harris further wrote that she, unlike Trump, “will always honor the service and sacrifice of all of America’s fallen heroes.”
In response to Harris, members of eight separate Gold Star families posted videos on X condemning her remarks and explaining that the families themselves had invited Trump to the cemetery for the ceremony — whereas they had never once been contacted by Harris in the three years since the 13 service members were killed.
One of those to post a video was Mark Schmitz, gold star father of Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz. Mr. Schmitz denounced the “heinous, vile and disgusting post put out by Kamala Harris trying to incite those that don’t follow the truth, [trying to make them believe] that President Trump was in Arlington as a political stunt.” He added:
“Why did we want Trump there? It wasn’t to help his political campaign. We wanted a leader — that explains why you [Harris] and Joe [Biden] didn’t get a call. Imagine for a second that your kid is killed. There’s a president in the United States willing to take you under his wing and listen to you. That’s what we found in President Trump, certainly not you, and certainly not Joe Biden. You have 13 families who have been waiting over three years to so much as get a phone call, to so much as hear our kids’ names said aloud in the halls of Congress, the State of the Union, hell, anything. The irony behind your post, that you give a rat’s ass about our military or our veterans, Jared’s brothers and sisters in arms, the rest of the 12, their brothers and sisters in arms, is an outright lie. We’re living proof of that. You’re despicable. You have zero business running this country. And I pray to God Americans wake the hell up. and get your ass out of office. You have spit in our face for the last fucking time.”
Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of the late Sergeant Nicole Gee, said in her video:
“Vice President Harris … This year, for the third year anniversary of [Nicole’s] murder, we welcomed President Donald J. Trump to Arlington to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with our family and to visit the cold graveside. President Trump and his team were respectful. They listened to our stories and didn’t talk much at all. We welcomed them that day, and they were a comfort to our family. Vice President Harris, I ask you, why won’t you return a call and explain to us how you call my daughter-in-law’s death a success? Vice President Harris, why will you not express your condolences yourself. Why have we never heard from you? And finally, why would you take a day where we celebrated the death of our loved one and use it to disparage not only them but us? President Trump has called. President Trump shows up. President Trump takes the time to hear our loved one’s stories. Why won’t you do the same, vice president?”
Jim McCollum, the father of the late Lance Corporal Rylee McCollum, said in his video:
“Vice President Harris … Your recent remarks related to Trump’s visit to Arlington are filled with nothing but lies and deceit. How do you sleep at night knowing it was you, this administration, you and Biden, you being the last one in the room are responsible for the death of our 13 kids. You failed for three years and eight months to acknowledge our kids, but to acknowledge me. You don’t know me. You’ve never spoken to me. You’ve never reached out to me. You have failed in your duties as vice president. You have been nothing but disrespectful to me and the families of the 13. Yet you’re claiming that you will always be respectful and show respect for our fallen, you’ve been absent for three years and eight months. You’ve proven that you’re not capable to do the job that you have, let alone the job that you seek.”
In an 11-minute interview with with Philadelphia 6 ABC reporter Brian Taff on September 14, 2024, Harris was asked to articulate what specific policies she would support to lower costs amid concerns about inflation. She replied:
“Well, I’ll start with this. I grew up a middle-class kid. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard. She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager. I grew up in a community of hard-working people, you know, construction workers and nurses and teachers. And I try to explain to some people who may not have had the same experience. You know, a lot of people will relate to this. You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn, and I was raised to believe and to know that all people deserve dignity, and that we as Americans have a beautiful character. You know, we have ambitions and aspirations and dreams, but not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help them fuel those dreams and ambitions. So when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people and creating opportunity for people, for example, to start a small business.”
Harris then said she would provide a $50,000 tax deduction for start-up businesses, and $25,000 in assistance for new homebuyers. “These are some examples of what I mean when I talk about an opportunity economy,” she continued, “and a lot of it has to do with just the community I was raised in and the people that I admire who work hard, you know, and deserve to have, you know, their dreams fulfilled because they’re prepared to work for it.”
On September 18, 2024, three U.S. intelligence agencies — the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — issued a joint statement revealing that in late June and early July, Iran had hacked and “stolen” “non-public material” from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign emails and sent it, via email, to: (a) people working for the Biden-Harris campaign, and (b) various media outlets. After receiving the Iranian emails, the Biden-Harris campaign did not inform either the FBI or any other law-enforcement authority at all, but instead kept quiet about the matter.
Trump reacted to the news about the emails by writing on Truth Social: “The FBI caught Iran spying on my campaign and giving all of the information to Kamala Harris campaign. Therefore she and her campaign were illegally spying on me to be known as the Iran, Iran, Iran case. Will Kamala resign in disgrace from politics? Will the communist left pick a new candidate to replace her?” In a follow-up statement, also on September 18, Trump said at a campaign rally: “This is real election interference, not the phony crap that they’ve been trying to pin on me with Russia Russia Russia for years.”
The Harris campaign, for its part, claimed that the emails sent by Iran had been ignored by their intended recipients.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, meanwhile, said in a statement: “This is further proof the Iranians are actively interfering in the election to help Kamala Harris and Joe Biden because they know President Trump will restore his tough sanctions and stand against their reign of terror. Kamala and Biden must come clean on whether they used the hacked material given to them by the Iranians to hurt President Trump. What did they know and when did they know it?”
As conservative columnist Daniel Greenfield put it: “The Biden-Harris campaign should have reported agents of a foreign government peddling stolen info to it. And it’s hard to believe that the sitting administration had no idea that Iran had hacked the Trump campaign. Its failure to do so is suspicious at best and treasonous at worst.”
On October 11, 2024, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it was filing a lawsuit against Virginia and its Board of Elections because of that state’s efforts to enforce a 2006 law mandating the removal of non-citizens from its voter lists. Those efforts were being made in compliance with an August 7th executive order by which Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin required “all registrars” to “cancel the registrations of non-citizens who have registered to vote in a local, state, or federal election by falsely claiming that they are a citizen, including the forging of documentation or any other means of improper registration.” When making the case for his executive order, Youngkin stated that “79,867 deceased voters” had been removed from Virginia’s voter rolls in 2023 alone, and another “6,303 non-citizens” had been removed between January 2022 and July 2024.
On October 23, 2024, Harris commented on recent remarks by John Kelly, the onetime White House chief of staff to former President Trump, in which Kelly had asserted that Trump’s personality and his approach to politics were akin to those of a “fascist.” Said Harris: “It is clear from John Kelly’s words that Donald Trump is someone — who I quote — certainly falls in ‘the general definition of fascist.’ Who has in fact vowed to be a dictator on day one and vowed to use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas.”
“Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions,” Harris continued. “The bottom line is this, we know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power.”
Referencing also a recent interview in which Kelly had claimed that Trump wanted the U.S. military to be like “Hitler’s generals” in terms of their loyalty to the president, Harris said: “It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans.”
“In just the past week,” added Harris, “Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the enemy from within and even said that he would use the United States military to go after American citizens” who refuse “to bend a knee or dar[e] to critici[ze] him.”
On October 15, 2024, Harris sat for an hour-long interview with the popular radio host “Charlamagne tha God,” a discussion that was carried on iHeartRadio’s website and livestreamed on CNN. When a caller voiced concern that Trump, who had pledged to deport large numbers of illegal aliens, might “put anyone that doesn’t look white in camps,” Harris replied: “Yeah, so you’ve hit on a really important point and expressed it, I think so well, which is he is achieving his intended effect to make you scared. He prefers to run on a problem [illegal migration] instead of fix a problem, and we got to call it out and see it for what it is.”
On November 5, 2024, Republicans Donald Trump and J.D. Vance defeated the Democratic ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the presidential election. Trump/Vance took 312 Electoral College votes, vs. 226 for Harris/Walz. Trump/Vance also won the nationwide popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million.
Over the course of Harris’ failed 15-week presidential run, her campaign spent more than $1 billion and ended up $20 million in debt. Among the campaign’s noteworthy expenses were:
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