Did the Democratic National Convention intentionally spread rumors of a surprise appearance by Beyoncé at their Thursday night rally to fill the room? If so, it was a cheap trick and says a lot about their confidence in Kamala Harris’ star power. But that’s no surprise; after all, this is the same outfit that won’t let their candidate speak off script for fear she’ll say something idiotic.

Things can’t stay that way. From this star-studded evening onwards, the Democratic nominee will be under pressure to fill the gaps. As a result, we may have just witnessed the climax of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.

Harris accepted her party’s nomination for the Oval Office with a well-delivered speech that garnered great enthusiasm (even without Beyoncé) but answered few questions about how she might actually govern our country.

Kamala Harris officially accepts her nomination as a Democrat at the National Convention

This is intentional. When the vice president came out in recent days with proposals to control food prices and provide tens of thousands of dollars in grants to first-time home buyers, her policies were widely criticized. Her approval ratings, which had been rising since her unlikely and random nomination, immediately plummeted.

Since then, and especially in her speech on Thursday night, she has only spouted platitudes and empty babble. And to be honest, she did a pretty good job of it.

Her campaign is in many ways a repeat of Barack Obama’s “Hope and Change” campaign of 2008 – all feel-good generalizations without much substance. But Obama’s campaign was run after eight years in the Oval Office with Republican George W. Bush in office. Voters were tired of the Iraq war and divisive politics and were eager for a new direction.

For four days, Democrats made it sound like Harris was running against an incumbent. In reality, she is the incumbent.

Kamala Harris talks about forging a “new path forward,” but she has been in the White House for three and a half years and has dug the very same potholes that she now promises to fill. When Harris complains that bread or beef prices have risen by 50% and housing is unaffordable, that is under her watch.

For four days, Democrats have made it sound like Harris is running against an incumbent; in reality, she is Is the incumbent.

In her acceptance speech, Harris, like other speakers before her, defended the Democrats’ perceived weaknesses. She spoke of her love for her country and her pride in the values ​​that make the United States so extraordinary – such as freedom, opportunity and justice.

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Never have so many American flags flown in a Democratic convention center; never have the assembled crowds struggled to remember the words to our national anthem so often, or chanted “USA, USA!” so cheerfully. Harris and the DNC clearly wanted voters—and especially those in the patriotic swing states of the Midwest—to overlook the way progressive left-wing Democrats routinely denounce the United States as a cauldron of racism and sexism, castigate capitalism as the root of hideous inequality, and protest our evil alliance with Israel.

Harris also praised our law enforcement agencies and sought to erase the memory of the Democrats’ “defund the police” movement or her support for bail reforms that have made our cities more dangerous and cops more vulnerable. She talked about her background as a tough-on-crime prosecutor in hopes that people will forget her support of the gangsters who burned down large parts of Minneapolis in 2020. She also emphasized supporting and honoring veterans, perhaps to appease the anger of our country’s service members that her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, exaggerated his military rank.

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Perhaps Harris has learned a thing or two from Governor Walz, who spent many years as a defensive coordinator for a high school football team. After all, many say a good defense is the best offense. For example, Harris promised that as president she would sign the bipartisan border bill that she accuses former President Trump of sabotaging for political reasons. That accusation helps counter critics who accuse Harris, Joe Biden’s border czar, of doing absolutely nothing to stem the flow of migrants entering our country illegally.

Harris spoke engagingly about her background as the daughter of a determined Indian mother who taught her that anything was possible, and about growing up in a middle-class community. For a woman who struggled to retain staff and was described as difficult, Harris likely burnished her image and likeability.

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But that shine soon faded as she launched into exaggerated and dishonest attacks on former President Donald Trump. She railed against the Jan. 6 protests when she accused Trump of trying to “throw away your vote.” Of course, that’s exactly what Democrats did when they nominated Harris, ignoring the 31 million people who voted for Joe Biden.

She warned that Trump would “throw journalists in jail,” use the military against our own citizens, and ban abortion nationwide. Like many others, she raised the specter of Project 2025, even though even liberal news organizations confirmed that the conservative policy paper had nothing to do with the Trump campaign.

Like President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris also constantly lies about former President Donald Trump. If he really is as terrible as they claim, they can surely prove their claim with actual facts.

There is another fundamental falsehood that has run throughout the Democratic National Convention. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and nearly everyone in between have talked about how they would unite the country and how, to quote the president, hate cannot have a “safe haven” in our nation. Yet the vitriol directed at Trump, and by extension his tens of millions of supporters, reveals the hypocrisy of such views.

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Harris’ speech was like catnip for Democrats, who are happy that Joe Biden is no longer their nominee, but their work has only just begun. Outside the Chicago arena, voters want to know how Harris’ promised $5 trillion tax hike will affect the economy, how unprecedented federal spending could keep interest rates high and how unlimited immigration could depress middle-class wages.

Harris will soon have to answer some questions. Then the joy could disappear.

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