Now that the Democratic party has divested itself of its sure loser, Joe Biden, all eyes are on Kamala Harris. Cast as the Second Coming, the female version of Barack Obama, and the incarnate representation of America’s most fervent hopes and aspirations, Harris is enjoying a honeymoon with America that will no doubt carry her safely through to the Chicago convention on the 19th of August. In the intervening time, Democratic operatives and mainstream media will do everything in their power to sanitize, reshape or reinvent candidate Harris with the sole objective of separating her from any connection to her boss’s flagrant failures as president. Herein lies a thorny problem for Democrats, one which Republicans need to pay close attention to if they have any hopes of regaining the White House and Congress. If Kamala Harris was an innocent bystander, or missing in action while Joe Biden was taking a wrecking ball to the American economy, energy sector, and national sovereignty by allowing millions of illegals to flood into the country, she has no demonstrable record of anything to sell to the voters. If, however, she is cast in her proper role as a co-conspirator and proxy for the Biden debacle, she will be forced to defend her role in what has arguably been one of the worst presidencies in the modern era. Either way, if Republicans focus on ”issues,” the Harris deficiencies and failures will be evident in abundance.

Kamala Harris will no doubt initially appeal to younger voters, people of color, and college educated women. Possessed of an undeniable charisma she is propelled in the moment by one of the hallmarks of identity politics, namely, she is another ‘first.” As the contest for the White House moves farther away from the glitz and frill of political conventions and settles into the hardnosed hit and run of presidential campaigning, the liabilities and baggage carried by candidate Harris will be become increasingly difficult to turn aside. At every level of her political career, Harris has epitomized the West coast elitist school of radical Leftist Progressivism and crypto-Socialism, from her failure as a prosecutor to seek the death penalty for a convicted a cop killer, for support of the participants in the post George Floyd mayhem and her endorsement of calls to defund the police. Joe Biden is a moderate who faked his way as a radical. Kamala Harris is the real McCoy, and ready to unleash a torrent of it onto America. No amount of Hollywood celebrity praise is going to enable Harris to divorce herself from years of support and advocacy of the Leftist agenda, which promises the United States more illegal immigration, more government control over the economy, more involvement in overseas wars, and more loss of individual freedom and liberty. While handlers are desperately trying to paint Harris as a moderate, once Labor Day rolls around and Americans really start getting seriously focused on the 2024 presidential contest, voters are going to see the real Kamala Harris, the one stamped with the imprimaturs of Bernie Sanders, and Barack Obama, hardly representatives of moderation.

Republicans need to steer clear of personal attacks and the kind of race baiting that Democrats are chomping at the bit to hear. If the Republican party wages an issue focused campaign and disciplines itself to stand behind a unified message of returning America to peace, a roaring economy, lower gas prices, law and order on the streets of the nation’s cities and at the Southern border, they will possess the means to soundly defeat Kamala Harris in an electoral landslide, bringing the House and Senate along with it. American voters will judge the better of the two presidential candidates and political parties this election cycle on the basis of how the lives of Americans have become better or worse since 2019. It is already evident how the Democratic party’s frantic attempt to makeover their candidate is a sign of the uneasiness in trying to convince voters they are going to be better off. If left to the real Kamala Harris, she will make the most convincing argument.