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Daily Mail, August 28, 2024. The New York Times turns on Kamala Harris and slams her as 'a phony'. There are few cheerleaders more reliable than Kamala Harris 's friends in the liberal media. Ever since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 election race last month, their print presses and TV networks have put in a hard shift trying to paper over Harris's past record as the most unpopular Vice President in American history. To read and listen to their florid praise is to believe that Harris is already a shoo-in for president – and not an 11th hour replacement as Democratic nominee.
That was until her lackluster Thursday night speech at last week's Democratic National Convention – which appears to have halted the torrent of feel-good fangirling. The reliably liberal New York Times was among the first to suddenly change tack on Friday, taking aim at what many perceive to be Harris's fatal lack of clear policy with a brutal headline that read: 'Joy Is Not a Strategy'. In a sour commentary, NYT Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy said he'd 'cringed' when former president Bill Clinton took the convention stage on Tuesday to claim that Harris would be 'the president of joy'.
How's that going to help the millions of Americans whose livelihoods are now at stake, Healey asked? And why has Harris failed to conduct a single interview or serious press conference since Biden stepped aside last month? 'Ultimately, she needs more voters in the swing states to trust her to handle the economy better than her opponent… Harris can't coast on "joy",' he concluded witheringly. But worse was to come from the Times. On Monday, the newspaper published a guest essay titled 'Trump can win on character', by conservative commentator Rich Lowry. Pulling no punches, Lowry wrote that Harris is 'weak and a phony and doesn't truly care about the country or the middle class.'
Lowry attacked Harris's record as Vice President, namely her failure to 'secure the border or to address inflation'. 'She doesn't care if her tax policies will destroy jobs. She has been part of an administration that has seen real wages stagnate while minimizing the problem because the party line matters to her more than economic reality for working Americans,' he added. Of course, such critiques aren't uncommon in conservative circles – but for such harsh words to appear in the NYT will no doubt be seen as a warning shot by Harris's team.
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