With Biden withdrawing from the presidential run on Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly has an enormous to-do list. It seems as though she has to launch an entirely new presidential campaign. This procedure typically takes months or even years to be completed. Despite President Joe Biden’s backing, nothing is assured, of course. Harris has just around two months to acquire funds, devise a plan, employ people, create a website, run some advertisements, organize a conference, and so forth. It’s a lengthy checklist.
Could it be that Harris is using the same campaign strategy that Biden employed in 2020 since she has so little time to unite her supporters around her cause?
Let’s examine these parallels.
Before he was elected, President Biden’s 2020 campaign got a far higher amount of funding from teachers unions than any other contender which could largely be because of his promises to provide an education plan that calls for a big increase in federal spending on schools and districts serving low-income kids. Harris is mobilizing teacher’s union votes in a similar manner. As she vows to “fight for our most fundamental freedoms” on Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris invites the Republicans to “bring it on” at an American Federation of Teachers conference in Houston.
“We see a future where everyone has the chance to not just get by, but to get ahead — a future where no senior can retire with dignity, no child has to grow up in poverty, and every worker has the freedom to join a union,” she stated according to Ohio Capital Journal.
She also exalted the administration’s student loan forgiveness program, which, according to the Department of Education and CNBC, has helped almost 4.8 million borrowers reduce their debt by roughly $169 billion.
Another example is when, in October 2020, Biden declared that, should he be elected president, he would make Roe v. Wade “the law of the land” and vowed his support for legal abortion, according to CBS News. Now Harris went over a litany of liberal goals, pledging to make the defense of women’s access to abortion a primary focus of her presidential campaign against Donald Trump.
Kamala Harris on Monday during her inaugural campaign address, said, “We will fight for reproductive freedom, knowing that if Trump gets the chance, he will sign an abortion ban to outlaw abortion in every single state,” according to Barron’s.
To combat the scourge of gun violence in the country, President Joe Biden launched the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. At her first Wisconsin campaign rally on July 23, Harris also hinted that her platform will center on lowering gun violence by endorsing measures that have long been supported by organizations dedicated to gun control. “We will finally pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban because we believe that every person should have the freedom to live free from the fear of gun violence,” she declared.
Harris makes no new commitments, thus it’s possible that nothing new will be done. Her talking points are much the same as that of the Biden-Harris administration from four years ago.