Dem lawmakers encourage Kamala to take 'savvy strategy,' not lay out policy plans until after she's elected: report

Democratic lawmakers hope their presidential nominee Kamala Harris will wait to lay out her policy plans until after the election is over, according to a new report from Politico. This comes amid criticism from pundits, economists and prognosticators on both the left and right who have laid into Harris for announcing plans for price controls on food and other goods as her first forray into a economic policy last week. She also hasn't sat for an interview or held a press conference.

According to the outlet, Democratic lawmakers are perfectly content with Harris holding her policy roll-out until after November, when the election has already taken place, and keeping voters in the dark about what she wants for the country until then. It has already been reported that many Democrat allies of the vice president have urged that she not give long-form media interviews or speak to press while CNN reported that she is "historically vulnerable" when it comes to speaking to press.

"But mostly," Politico writes, "she’s leaning into a general positive message that has wider appeal, specifically because it’s light on the details. Democratic lawmakers call it a savvy strategy. They’d rather lay out a specific plan post-November, when a potential President-elect Harris would have to staff up her administration and determine her governing priorities."



Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH), who is the chair of the centrist New Democrats, told reporters, “She doesn’t need to negotiate against herself. We’ve got the biggest possible tent right now," adding, “I don’t think there’s a real strong reason for her to try to weed out any points of view right now.”

Harris skipped the primary process and launched to the top of the Democrat Party ticket without winning a single state. Shortly after her boss Joe Biden was ousted, endorsing her on his way out, Democrats held a "virtual roll call" to seal up the nomination with Biden's delegates before the party convention in Chicago, happening this week. Now it turns out that her own party is hesitant to hear her speak about policy positions as it could reportedly "blunt her momentum."

Harris still has to deal with Republicans holding her to account for her far-left record and policy positions. When Harris was a senator, she was rated as “most liberal” by GovTrack in 2019 leading up to her 2020 presidential bid.

Since taking the nomination, she has flipped on multiple issues, such as banning fracking, which she was in favor of during the 2020 race. Additionally, Harris has claimed that she will be going tough on the border if elected president, despite previously likening the “perception” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Ku Klux Klan and posting in reference to immigration in 2017, “Say it loud, say it clear, everyone is welcome here.”

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One battleground district Democrat told Politico that voters "have very little knowledge about who [Harris] is, what her job has actually been." The lawmaker added that voters "know Trump. They know what his policies are. They don’t know Kamala. And so Kamala has a ton of room right now to define herself.”

Much of that will take place at the DNC this week. The Democrats have already laid out their platform, which appears to call for the re-election of Joe Biden, sex changes for minors, and opens with a land acknowledgement.