Proof Kamala Harris Is the Most Extreme Vice Presidential Nominee Ever?

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In the 48 hours since Joe Biden revealed that Kamala Harris is his running mate, Americans have come to learn a significant amount about Harris’ unpopular opinions, despite her persona as someone who works hard for commonsense solutions.

Though Harris first won election to Congress as California’s junior senator in 2016, her views are well known to those who’ve followed her career from nascent prosecutor to candidate for vice president.

Here are the most extreme positions she’s taken along the way.

Defunding the Pentagon

Sen. Harris voiced support for defunding the Pentagon in July. While she stopped just short of endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposal to gut the Defense Department’s budget (perhaps considering the electoral consequences), Harris released a statement “unequivocally” agreeing on the need to cut defense spending.

Harris then joined 13 other radicals in the Senate to vote against the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes military-related expenditures, including troop pay.

Green New Deal

Harris became one of the first senators in 2019 to back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal to get rid of as many planes and farting cows as possible by 2030.

Around this time, GovTrack, a nonpartisan source of government information and statistics, rated Harris as 2019’s most liberal U.S. senator. More liberal than Chuck Schumer, more liberal than Elizabeth Warren; heck, more liberal than Bernie Sanders!

Medicare for All

Harris helped introduce Sen. Sanders’ Medicare for All Act of 2019 to the public as an original co-sponsor.

Harris’ support for “Medicare for All” became a cornerstone of her presidential campaign until she faced scrutiny over whether that meant abolishing private health insurance. Harris initially came clean when responding to a question about the status of private insurance under her plan in CNN town hall saying, “Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on.” 

She started walking back that response almost immediately, ultimately appearing on CBS News, where she promised that she would allow supplemental private insurance.

And yet the bill she co-sponsored with Sanders would prohibit health insurers from selling plans that duplicated coverage provided under the Act. 

Defunding the Police (When It’s Convenient)

Harris’ attitude towards law enforcement shifts one way or another depending entirely on what they can do for her.

In the wake of calls for police reform, it behooved the California senator to jump on the defund the police bandwagon to win support from left-wing activists. After all, they might not like her mixed record as a prosecutor.

Harris even went so far as to ask her supporters to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund to post bail for rioters in police custody.

If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota. https://t.co/t8LXowKIbw

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 1, 2020

In 2004, Harris’ top priority as San Francisco’s newly-elected DA was making bail more expensive.

Gun Control

Wait, you thought Joe Biden’s gun-grabbing bona fides couldn’t be more firmly established? Think again, my friends. 

Kalama Harris actively promotes an even more virulent strain of gun control, antithetical to what the Founders’ stood for.

Harris has already pledged to Democrats that she wouldn’t hesitate to pass sweeping gun control via executive action if she had to.

What might that look like? Well, she’s on record as being for:

• Mandated buybacks of so-called “assault rifles”
• Universal background checks
• Prohibiting rifle purchases for those under 21
• Keeping law-abiding citizens from getting a concealed carry permit unless they could prove why they needed one — among other things.

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