While Kamala Harris desperately tries to distance herself from Joe Biden, her campaign co-chair openly bragged about the vice president’s contribution to the Biden-Harris administration during a Thursday CNN appearance.
Harris has repeatedly tried to make herself appear as the “change” candidate in the race despite the fact that she is currently in the White House. She has insisted that she did not play a major role in White House policies, while at the same time trying to take credit for the supposed “achievements” of the Biden-Harris administration. Harris has also been found to have cast the tie-breaking vote on at least 33 pieces of legislation in the Senate during her time as vice president, meaning that she played a direct role in these bills that were signed by Biden.
Even after Harris’ repeated insistence that she is the “change” candidate, Harris-Walz campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu apparently didn’t get the memo — as he bragged to CNN that Harris “helped” Biden “do all the things that were done in the time that she was there. And I think she’s proud of that.”
The discussion began when CNN’s “Inside Politics” host Dana Bash stated: “If you look at the voters who aren’t sure who to vote for, and if the crisis of affordability, I call it, is their top concern, what they know about Donald Trump is that they could afford more when he was president up until the pandemic. And they don’t know what she will bring.”
As Harris and other Democrats have done, Landrieu blatantly lied about the Trump economy in his response, falsely claiming that the American people are wrong when they discuss the differences between their financial standing under Trump’s first three years versus their struggles under the Biden-Harris administration.
“Well, first of all, that’s what they think, but of course that is not accurate. The economy when Donald Trump was president was terrible,” Landrieu lied.
“I think Joe Biden is going to go down in history as being one of the most consequential presidents in the history of America,” the Harris campaign co-chair boasted. “And she was his vice president and she helped him do all the things that were done in the Biden time that she was there, and I think that she’s proud of that.”
Landrieu immediately tried to segue the conversation to avoid being questioned about his lies and his comments being in direct conflict with Harris’ efforts to distance herself from Biden, claiming: “But nobody should be unclear of the fact that she is her own person.”
He also tried to deflect from the obvious unpopularity of many of Biden’s policies, claiming that the main reason Americans disliked Biden was because of his age, not his policies.
“For people who didn’t like Joe Biden, one of the reasons they didn’t like him was not because of his policies,” Landrieu said. “One of the reasons was they thought that he was too old and they said that over and over again.”
My full conversation with Harris-Walz National Campaign Co-Chair Mitch Landrieu on @InsidePolitics pic.twitter.com/RLltEtzLkt
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) September 12, 2024
He also parroted the Harris-Walz campaign’s favorite platitude, claiming that voters “understand that it’s a choice between Donald Trump who wants to go backwards and Kamala Harris is going to go forward.” Of course, just like Harris, Landrieu did not define what “going forward” would mean.
THE LIE: Kamala Harris is “the new way forward.”
THE TRUTH: Kamala Harris is currently the one in office.
Over the past 16 years democrats have been in control of the White House for 12.
There is nothing “new” about Kamala Harris.
In fact, her position caused many of the… pic.twitter.com/OI4LXWL16k
— KamalaHQLies (@KamalaHQLies) September 2, 2024
