Kamala Harris is the most left-leaning major party presidential candidate in America since World War II.

Vice President Kamala Harris gave a great, zero-calorie acceptance speech last week. She said nothing about her two substantive policy proposals to date (price controls and a Publishers Clearinghouse-style $25,000 free package for first-time homebuyers), and she avoided formally rejecting any of her 2019 campaign pledges. (As Sen. Tom Cotton repeatedly pointed out to ABC's Jonathan Karl on Sunday, Harris did not say a word about her supposed rejection of a 2019 proposal to end employer-sponsored health insurance and move to “Medicare for All.” Anonymous staffers have told some media outlets that Harris no longer holds that view, but Harris herself has not said so, so we don't know what she believes about health policy.)

Harris has been the Democratic nominee for 36 days and has not given an interview or answered a serious question. Her acceptance speech was a string of Republican clichés, yes, the Republican cliché “society of opportunity,” and a very calculated misrepresentation of her record. But we know that as a senator, she was once rated the most liberal member of the Senate. We also know that during the 2019 presidential campaign, she vowed to close detention centers for illegal immigrants “absolutely. On day one.”

We also know that President Biden has given Harris the explicit task of “stopping migration to the southern border.” President Biden also said in March 2021 that one of Harris' responsibilities at the border is to convince Central American countries and Mexico to “step up border enforcement.” At least 10 million uninvited migrants have crossed the southern border since Biden tasked Harris with that task. So it is certain that Harris has spectacularly failed in her big mission as vice president, and in fact, until Joe Biden's incompetence became too much to hide, Democrats were persuaded that an inconsistent Biden was preferable to a Harris candidate.

That's because Harris is an utterly terrible candidate who has never won an election outside of heavily Democratic California. Her interviews have always been incoherent and botched. She's notoriously funny and has no wit. Maybe her candidacy will survive the September 10 debate with former President Trump. There are stranger things happening. Any strategy she can execute without a teleprompter or a rapt audience will work. Let's take a look.

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But what we're already seeing is that legacy media like Jonathan Karl and Senator Cotton, along with every legacy network anchor and chief reporter since Biden stepped down, are buying into the campaign strategy of “don't see Harris, don't hear Harris, don't voice a doubt about Harris, let alone say a bad word about her.”

James Carville and George Stephanopoulos famously laid out the “it's about the economy” mantra for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. Whoever is running Harris' campaign will likely have a similar maxim: “Say nothing, and say it often.”

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This works really well when your candidate is on the far left of the Democratic Party, a real “San Francisco Democrat” and very embarrassed in interviews and answers, especially when you have the traditional media on your side and helping you every step of the way. Harris has one big advantage in the race – all the traditional media are fully behind her.

It's as if a cartel of old-school media leaders got together and agreed: “We're going to highlight everything negative about Trump and erase everything positive about his presidency. We're going to erase everything negative about Harris and highlight everything positive we can find.”

The cartels also agreed not to disclose that Harris was a child of Berkeley, California, and Montreal, Canada. Harris lived in Berkeley until she was 12, then moved to Montreal, where she attended Howard University in the District of Columbia after graduating from high school. She graduated from Montreal's Westmount High School and enrolled at Howard University in Washington, DC, before leaving Canada for good. Harris' camp has been tight-lipped about Harris' Montreal years or visits to the Bay Area, although she appears to have spent summers during her middle and high school years with her father, a Stanford University economist, and family friends. (Records, yearbooks, and classmates from Montreal's Westmount High School are much harder to find than those from Georgetown Prep, where Justice Brett Kavanaugh attended and played a major role in his confirmation hearings.)

One piece of policy that was included in Harris' speech was a neat “moral equivalence” when she first addressed the horrific acts committed by Hamas and the people of Gaza in Israel, while simultaneously highlighting the suffering that those attacks and Hamas' refusal to hand over the Israeli (and American) hostages have caused in Gaza. This odd, awkward phrasing will come as a shock to Israeli supporters who don't follow national security issues and numbers closely, but it won't come as a shock to anyone who knows the past positions of National Security Adviser Philip Gordon or White House National Security Adviser Maher Bitar, who are rumored to be seeking a Cabinet post if Harris wins.

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While Americans know everything about Trump, not just his record as president but every detail of his life — books have been written about the former president — they know nothing about Harris beyond her record as a senator, her 2019 presidential campaign and her time as Joe Biden's right-hand woman on the border.

The traditional media is happy with the status quo because, like Harris, the Manhattan Beltway media elite are far left of center.

Independents and moderates of both parties should be averse to the idea of ​​voting for a candidate who is hiding in plain sight. They should ask: “Why?”

Hugh Hewitt is the host of “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” broadcast weekdays from 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM on the Salem Radio Network and simulcast on the Salem News Channel. Hugh wakes up America on over 400 affiliates nationwide and on all streaming platforms where SNC is available. He is a frequent guest on Fox News Channel's News Roundtable hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6:00 PM ET. A native of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a professor of law at Chapman University's Fowler School of Law, where he has taught constitutional law since 1996. Hewitt began his eponymous radio show in Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has appeared frequently on all major national news television stations, hosted television shows on PBS and MSNBC, contributed to all major American newspapers, authored 12 books, and moderated numerous Republican presidential debates. He most recently moderated the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in 2015-2016. In his radio show and column, Hewitt focuses on the Constitution, national security, American politics, the Cleveland Browns and the Guardians. During his 40 years of broadcasting experience, Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests, from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump. In this column, we preview the top stories that will be headlining today's radio/television shows.

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