Kamala set to reveal 'New Way Forward' in DNC acceptance speech despite having been in White House for nearly 4 years

Kamala Harris is set to deliver her acceptance speech for the Democrat Party's nomination of her for president on Thursday night, and as she does so, she's expected to lean into her identity, her life experience, and forego policy plans for a term in office.

A report out from the Washington Examiner, in which they spoke with an anonymous source inside the Harris campaign, states that in response to concerns about the economy, Harris will talk about her mother's struggles and her early work with a part-time job at McDonald's. The fact that she had this part-time job as a young person is meant to show that she's in touch with the struggles of American workers today. Her record as a prosecutor in San Francisco, prior to her becoming California's attorney general, then senator, then vice president, will be used to highlight her crime-fighting experience.



Harris' proposal for the country was described to the Examiner by the source as a "New Way Forward," showing that she's trying to distance herself from the record of the administration she's been second-in-command of for nearly four years. Her new way forward casts herself out from the shadow of her boss in a personal sense but continues the administration's goals on abortion and illegal immigration, both of which they seem to believe should be limitless.

She is also "poised to position herself as a patriot as Democrats adopt Republicanisms such as 'faith' and 'freedom,'" the outlet reports. Neither Harris, nor her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have said much about faith, and their concept of freedom, to hear Walz tell it from the DNC stage on Wednesday night, seems primarily to do with doctors offices and access to the reproductive industry.

While the DNC released a party platform, complete with land acknowledgement, it had been approved for Biden's candidacy, not Kamala's, and was approved without revision, though party leaders said it was still in flux.

And there are still no policy plans on her campaign website, just bios for herself, Walz, and places to donate or sign up to volunteer. While Americans wait to hear concrete plans and ideas from this campaign, critics on both sides of the media political spectrum have said they have been given rhetoric, propagandist flourishes, Trump hate, and little substance on policy. The lack of agenda has been so stark that the Trump campaign launched a policy page for Kamala themselves, rounding up her available ideas and writing them down, since she has not.

Harris has primarily let others speak for her in the weeks since she took over the campaign from Biden. She hasn't held a press conference, she's answered few questions from reporters and nothing in depth, has indicated that she will sit for one long-form interview by the end of August but hasn't scheduled one, and has only agreed to one debate against her competitor Donald Trump and demanded that it be entirely on terms he agreed to with Biden.

Advisors and allies of Harris have reportedly advised her not to speak to the press and not to issue detailed policy plans. It was less than a week ago that she spoke about economic policy ideas, such as price controls and drastic government aid for homebuyers to the tune of $25,000 in taxpayer funds for first time homebuyers as well as the building of 3 million new homes across the US during her first 100 days in office. She was roundly criticized for those plans from those within her party and outside of it.