The media has been lying to us about Kamala Harris’s true identity ever since she emerged as the Democratic Party’s apparent presidential contender. After years of acknowledging her as the administration’s “border czar,” we abruptly learned that she wasn’t. They informed us that her stances on border security and fracking were completely contradictory. She has even received protection for declining to participate in interviews or news conferences.
This was something we were sure would happen. The media would portray Kamala Harris as the greatest thing to come out of the Dem Party in history, according to right-wing commentators, even before Joe Biden withdrew from the race. I defy anybody to argue against this reality.
The worst part is that this is just going to get worse over the next three months or so.
Take this Wednesday’s Newsweek article, “Can Kamala Harris Turn Texas Blue?” as an example.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the title implies she has a decent chance of winning Texas.
However, there is little evidence in the narrative to substantiate Kamala Harris’s chances of winning the Lone Star State.
“Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, an American politics professor at the University of North Texas, opined that the vice president may not be competitive in Texas, despite Harris’s momentum and a closely contested state-level contest.”
Newsweek’s Eshbaugh-Soha stated, “Texas won’t likely be involved in this at all.”
As a result, Harris won’t necessarily avoid Texas. She’s coming to raise funds and get some publicity for her campaign,” he said. “I see nothing that may upset the Texas presidential vote; nothing in the mix that suggests future performance will be any different from prior performance.”
According to Ashbaugh-Soha, one problem that Harris could face is that Texans may still link her to the historic numbers of undocumented immigrants who crossed the border illegally under the Biden administration.
Another expert concurred.
Harris is enjoying a “bump” in her White House campaign, but it’s unclear how that will help change the narrative in Texas, where “media pundits have been predicting since the year 2006 that there was going to be a purple wave,” according to Kimi Lynn King, a political science professor at the University of North Texas.
“In 2022, solid red candidates like Governor [Greg] Abbott and the impeached and charged but not found guilty Attorney General Ken Paxton won by double digits against Democrats across the state,” King told Newsweek.
A third expert weighed in, adding the final blow to Kamala Harris’s chances of winning Texas.
“Currently, while Harris is likely to make the election more competitive than if Biden had been the nominee, I don’t see Harris doing any better than Biden did in 2020, so a Trump victory in the mid-to-high single digits is the most likely scenario,” said Mark Jones, professor of political science and fellow in political science at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy in Texas.
Why is this relevant? As evidenced by the Harris-Walz campaign’s recent discovery of utilizing phony news headlines in Google advertisements, which is more significant, the story itself or the headline?
Do not misunderstand me. By all means, Democrats should spend money in Texas and other Republican areas if that is their desire. However, I can assure you that the media’s current portrayal of Kamala Harris is largely based on false information. To make Kamala Harris look stronger than she is, the media wants people to think that she may be competitive in Texas when she isn’t.
Author: Steven Sinclaire
