Since Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race and Kamala Harris replaced him as the presumptive Democratic nominee, she has barely interacted with the press. She has yet to give an official interview and has barely answered any questions, in sharp contrast to her opponent. She also has yet to fully articulate her platform, as well as backtracking and flip flopping on major issues, contradicting herself and her record constantly over the past four weeks. Examples include stealing President Trump's “No Tax On Tips” policy two years after casting the deciding vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, that made tips taxable and trying to distance herself from her progressive past, only to turn around and announce Soviet era price controls as her counter-inflation plan.
Despite all this, and the legacy media daring to criticize her on occasion, she's still received overwhelmingly positive press coverage, and President Trump has predictably received the opposite.
The Daily Caller reports:
Harris and her running mate received “82% positive press” while Trump and his running mate have received “90% negative coverage” on ABC News, CBS News and NBC News evening broadcasts from July 21 to August 17, according to a Monday Media Research Center study.
Readers may recall publication after publication attempting to rewrite history and pretend she was never border czar.
But even though mainstream media outlets have carried water for her, she's still neck in neck with Trump in swing state polling.
The Daily Caller continued:
Trump holds a .1% lead over Harris in the seven swing states after holding a 4.3% lead over President Joe Biden when he was still in the race, according to the RealClearPolling average. Jones, on “CNN News Central,” suggested Harris should have a clear lead over Trump because of the media coverage and the alleged mistakes her opponent has made since she launched her campaign, noting she has a chance to surge after the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
That may have something to do with the fact that while her campaign is desperate to separate her from the current administration in the eyes of voters, she was very much so involved in the failures that have defined it. It may also have something to do with how little she's said about her platform, and how incoherent what she's revealed so far is.
Even with legacy media and almost every other pillar of American life behind her, she is still referring to herself as the “underdog” — and so are her media lapdogs.
According to CNN senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson, “She is running against hundreds of years of history, hundreds of years of culture, hundreds of years of stereotypes about what a president of America looks like. So she is certainly the underdog…even if she goes up four points in every swing-state, I would say she's still the underdog, given the history of this country.”
Hundreds of years of history, hundreds of years of culture, hundreds of years of stereotypes didn't stop Obama from becoming president, so it's difficult to understand why they'd be an excuse for Harris. It seems like a convenient scapegoat to distract from the very real and self-inflicted issues facing a poorly executed campaign, held up entirely by a biased and complicit media.
