Posted on 08/22/2024 10:55:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Left-wing corporate media’s non-stop defensive coverage of Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris is working, with a new poll from Media Research Center finding more than 70 percent of Democrats are unaware of what Harris’ policy positions are.
Media Research Center surveyed 1,200 “registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020” and found that on 10 “different aspects of Harris’s public record … between 71% and 86% of these Democrats and Independents said they either had not heard of Harris’s position or were unsure.”
Data shows that when it comes to the key issues like immigration and crime, most Democrats and Independent-Biden supporters have been kept in the dark on Harris’ most communist-like stances. For example, 78% of voters surveyed were unaware that Harris promoted a fund that led to violent protesters being bailed out of jail during the 2020 riots. Seventy-five percent of those polled were unaware that Harris was once named “the most liberal U.S. senator in 2019.”
Seventy-four percent of those surveyed had no idea that Harris wanted to decriminalize illegally entering the country, while 72 percent were unaware that Harris “never visited a conflict zone on the border as Border Czar.”
Unsurprisingly, those surveyed told Media Research Center they get their news from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC.
“This suggests that the knowledge gaps found by our poll reveal a failure of these outlets to report on radical positions once (and perhaps currently) supported by the now-Democratic nominee for President,” according to Media Research Center.
Harris, as my colleague Ben Weingarten explains, “has flip-flopped on banning fracking, ‘decriminalizing’ illegal immigration, and providing universal government health care. She seeks to unburden herself from what has been. …”
Further analysis by the Media Research Center found that from July 21 to August 10, “eight of these ten issues received ZERO attention” from ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news, while the remaining two issues “received only minor coverage.”
Maybe we could cut some of these voters a little slack for not knowing Harris’ radical positions: she has yet to release any official proposals, clearly trying to memory-hole her entire career and devise a new (temporary) persona as a moderate. Thus far, however, she has talked of having the government control “politically inconvenient prices,” as my colleague David Harsanyi writes, and giving first-time home buyers $25,000.
That said, these voters deserve repudiation if they ultimately do vote for Harris without having any clue what her policy positions are.
But it’s the left-wing corporate media who deserve no mercy. Rather than having wall-to-wall coverage of the fact that the sitting vice president released no policy proposals and yet ascended to become the party’s nominee (via a coup, to be sure), the left-wing government mouthpieces — I mean, journalists — have ignored such reality.
In fact, during a recent episode of The New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast, politics reporter Astead Herndon laughed when asked what Harris’ administration might look like.
“We don’t know what type of president she would be,” he said. “Frankly, if you ask any Democrat, they would say that’s tomorrow’s problem, and as long as she wins the election and stops Donald Trump from winning another term, they don’t care.”
But a functioning media should care.
Yet, they refuse to put public pressure on Harris to sit down for an interview to explain how she’s going to fix the problems that her administration created. It’s not a heavy lift for them either: the left-wing corporate media sprung into action, providing wall-to-wall coverage of President Joe Biden’ cognitive decline when his decline became politically disadvantageous and necessitated the media’s help strong-arming him out of his nomination.
Her policy positions are simple. Just copy whatever Donald Trump has done and there you have it.
Fools and their liberties are soon parted.
The phrase “Kamala’s positions” made me stop and visualize, involuntarily,of course!
More significantly, they don't care.
And 95% of those 70% don’t even care what her true policies and beliefs are, they’re blue pilled zombies that do and think whatever they’re told to, plain and simple.
That’s okay — they have joy.
We know what her policies are.
“Free” stuff! Loot and get away without bail or jail.
That’s all that matters!
RE: Just copy whatever Donald Trump has done and there you have it.
Not all, only copy what looks marketable and attractive ( e.g., no tax on tips ).
The rest are a mish mash of Communistic ideas ( e.g. Price controls, unrealized capital gains , etc. )
Pretty sure we know one of her “positions”. Hopefully she can be unburdened from what has been soon.
By definition, Democrat voters are ignorant morons so this is not surprising.
They only need to know ONE thing:
- she isn’t that bad, evil Donald Trump!..
THAT is what this election is all about to them.
So many are not even interested. This is not the world we grew up in. When Carter’s policies caused economic problems, the country voted for Reagan. I don’t think it works that way anymore. Ignorance.
How many younger people even understand we have a Bill of Rights and what it is?
I lost this year 5 educated conservative friends and family. They will not be voting in November !!
Nobody knows.
Basically all I can think about:
Abortion, killing as many babies as possible.
“saving democracy”, how?
Price controls?
Printing money.
Badmouthing anybody who is not for them.
That's what worries me, they vote.
>The phrase “Kamala’s positions” made me stop and visualize, involuntarily,of course!
AKA “Kamala Sutra”
And another 20% or so are lying.
It’s time to move on from the short reign of Queen Kamala: The Entitlement Queen — and her Prince Charming and Soulmate, Sargent Walz. They’ve had their 15 minutes of fame — and served their useful idiocy. It’s time to bring on the Big Boys — the next reality “stars.”
Seriously, the Democratic bench is empty — and just bringing back the “oldies,” while the rest of the country moves forward with real and authentic leadership. The time for fake is over. You can’t fake it ‘til you make it. At some point, you have to do something.
Neither does she.
She’s waiting on TRUMP TO TELL HER WHAT THEY ARE..............
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