Kamala Harris Blaims American Racism for Failed Campaign
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Senator Kamala Harris polled at 3% in last month's
Quinnipiac poll. That must make the San Fran and
Hollywood donors who stuffed $11.6 million in her
pantsuit pockets this quarter feel good about giving
to charity.
A quarter of Iowa Democrat caucusgoers have a
negative opinion of Harris. That’s up minus eleven
points since June. So, Harris is making weekly trips
to Iowa while claiming that she’s going to move
there. Not even Democrats are stupid enough to
believe that she’s going to leave her Brentwood
mansion to move to a place where the temperatures
are currently hovering around the low thirties.
And her Iowa stump speech is now all about accusing
anyone who doesn’t vote for her of racism.
In her speeches, Harris claims that "electability",
the question of whether a candidate polling 3%
nationwide can beat President Trump, is the
"elephant in the room---but actually more
accurately, the donkey in the room."
There's a donkey in the room all-right. Or maybe
it's a jackass.
"It's been coming up in connection to my campaign:
is America ready for that? Are they ready for a
woman of color to be President of the United
States?" Harris insists.
When Harris tried this line in an Axios on HBO
interview, a baffled Margaret Talev asked, "America
was ready for a black man to be President of the
United States.”
And, in response, Harris spent 30 seconds spewing
inane gibberish.
But who are the sexist pigs who aren’t ready for a
woman to be President of the United States?
Senator Harris polls at 5% among men and only 2%
among women. Either women aren’t ready for a female
president. Or women just don’t like Kamala.
And where’s the outpouring of support from black
voters?
Black voters aren’t as stingy with their support for
Kamala as white voters. While only 3% of white
voters support Harris, a whopping 4% of black voters
are ready to choose her as their candidate.
Maybe that 1% difference can be explained by racism?
But that doesn’t explain why 20% of black voters
rate her unfavorably.
Maybe the 96% of black voters and 98% of women who
aren’t backing Kamala just aren’t “ready for a woman
of color to be President of the United States.”
Or, and this is a stunning idea, maybe they aren’t
ready for Kamala Harris. Or Kamala Harris isn’t
ready.
But, instead of blaming herself, Senator Kamala Devi
Harris is blaming America. The vast majority of it
which isn’t supporting her. And there’s only one
possible reason they aren’t supporting her. Racism.
Harris began her campaign ascendancy by accusing Joe
Biden of racism. It’s only fitting that she’s
wrapping it up by implying that her lack of support
isn’t her fault, but the fault of an intolerant
nation.
Electability, a problem caused by her own poor poll
numbers, is really a sign of racial unreadiness.
In Iowa, Senator Harris claimed that the question of
whether voters were ready for a "woman of color" is
"a conversation that's come up in every single time
in every election that I've---now, here's the
operative word---won."
Kamala’s opponent in the 2016 Senate race was
Loretta Sanchez, a fellow Democrat and “woman of
color”. The two questions voters faced in that
election was how California had turned into a
one-party state, and whether to vote for the “woman
of color” who had said racist things about the
Vietnamese or the “woman of color” who had slept her
way to the top courtesy of one of the state’s
crookedest Dems.
Since Kamala raised $15 million and spent $14
million, while Sanchez had about $4 million, it was
easy.
But, just as Kamala launched her bid with a
revisionist history of growing in the segregated
South, in Berkeley, her revisionist history of her
2016 election, has her fighting racist white male
intolerance.
It’s pathetic.
This time around, she raised over $36 million, and
spent $25 million of it, to poll at 3%. But that’s
after an initial surge of enthusiasm that saw her
break fundraising records and make it to the first
tier.
What happened? Kamala opened her mouth. Her
unfavourability ratings now routinely poll in the
negative forties. It’s not just the shameless
race-baiting. It’s also her utter inauthenticity.
Trying to pretend that she’s polling at 3% because
Obama voters aren’t ready to vote for black people,
and women aren’t prepared to vote for women, and
black people aren’t willing to vote for black
people, is exactly the reason why even Democrats
hate her. Voters have gotten tired of the lies, the
flip-flopping, and the constant racial appeals as if
she had come out of a ghetto in Detroit, Newark or
Chicago, instead of being a privileged woman who
grew up with her Indian scientist mother in Canada.
Kamala Harris bet her entire campaign on racial
identity politics. She assumed that she could break
off Joe Biden’s black support and combine that with
white lefties yearning for another Obama.
None of her bets paid off. Nor did the bets of the
donors who lost $36 million on her campaign.
Instead of laying out a vision, the former socialite
relied on the personal charm that made her a hit
among San Francisco’s wealthy lefties. But the
transparent phoniness that won over her old social
set hasn’t translated well to a national stage. And
her constant transformations, pretending that she’s
about to move to Iowa, and then complaining that
Iowans are racist, just make it obvious how fake she
is.
But no matter how badly Kamala fails, she can always
blame it on racism.
This is a problem and it’s a bigger than Willie
Brown’s former mistress playing her last race card.
Kamala Harris blaming racism, instead of her bad
decisions, means that she never has to take any
responsibility. Instead, somehow, the entire country
is to blame for not being “ready” for her historic
candidacy.
That’s a disgusting smear of millions of people,
Democrats, Republicans, men and women, white people
and black people. It cynically uses race and gender
to divide the country while obscuring the actual
problems of racism. And it shields perpetrators of
racial divisiveness like her from accountability.
Kamala Harris can never fail. Her failures are
America’s failures. The worse she fails; the worse
America must be. Instead of leaving the race having
learned something, she stumbles to the exit, having
learned nothing except that even if shameless racial
huckstering can’t win a half-Indian politician from
Brentwood the election, it can deflect attention
from how she squandered her lead, alienated her
voters, and wasted tens of millions of dollars of
other people’s money to poll at 3%.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism
Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This
article previously appeared at the Center's Front
Page Magazine.