People with nothing to hide usually don’t.

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s campaign is another Democratic Party hoax. Their strategy is to talk about “joy,” “vibes,” January 6, and Donald Trump’s conviction in New York, while gaslighting voters about their far-left agenda and Trump’s policy positions. They refuse to discuss their deeply-held tenets because they, and the mandarins who selected them, know that most voters would reject them. They lie about Trump, because the effectiveness of their attacks based on January 6 and lawfare has already peaked, and may now be helping him. They fear that Trump’s populist agenda is converting traditional Democratic voters, and to blunt this, they distort his positions to make him appear extreme.

This is the modern Democratic playbook. Think the Russia hoax, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Biden’s crime family and acuity hoaxes, social media censorship, “very fine people,” drinking bleach, and many others. With support from most of the media, academia, and the administrative state, Democrats have every reason to believe their prestidigitation is infallible. It is now so prosaic for Democrats to deceive voters that veteran anchor Chris Matthews admitted on MSNBC that Harris has “to avoid the left-wing corner. They cannot put her in that left-wing because a woman of color who’s also in the hard left is not going to sell.” In other words, if Democrats want to win, they have to lie, and they don’t have to be bashful about doing so.

Harris and Walz are pretending to reinvent themselves, and the media embraces the charade. They expect to deceive enough voters in battleground states to eke out a victory. They might succeed.

As Harris hides from policy discussions and her proxies claim she has abandoned her convictions, the media shamelessly overlooks that Harris is the incumbent vice president who has pushed the administration to the Left, and accuse Republicans of being disingenuous for holding Harris and Walz to their records. This week, Politico criticized J.D. Vance for “tr[ying] to tie Harris to the Biden administration’s policies.” That’s the Biden-Harris Administration, during which Harris has supposedly been the “last person in the room.” As White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained two weeks ago, Harris shares full responsibility for all major administration policies, she and Biden are fully aligned, and there is no daylight between them.

While Biden pandered to the far-left, Harris and Walz are the far-left. In 2019, GovTrack, ranked Harris as the “most liberal compared to All Senators.” Once Democrats took the Minnesota House, CNN termed Walz a “progressive champion.”

A must-see television ad run by Republican Pennsylvania senate candidate Dave McCormick includes video of Harris supporting decriminalization of illegal aliens; resolutely opposing fracking and offshore drilling; suggesting workers in the fossil fuel industry should transition to other jobs; supporting the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; dismissing putting more police officers on the street as “wrongheaded thinking;” considering giving felons the right to vote; endorsing a mandatory buyback for assault weapons; calling for the elimination of private health insurance, even for people who want to keep their insurance; and supporting free health coverage for “all people,” including illegal aliens.

As San Francisco district attorney, Harris promised not to impose the death penalty—even on cop killers—a position she reiterated as a presidential candidate in 2019. She led efforts to promote a bail fund that helped free convicts, including murderers, serial domestic abusers, and violent rioters in the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots. She effectively supported dismantling the 10th Amendment when she advocated a plan to require prior federal review and clearance of state laws involving reproductive health care. Harris said she would abolish the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal. After first equivocating on whether she supports court packing, she endorsed Biden’s call to force long-serving conservative justices off the Court.

Harris has remained largely silent about the outbreak of anti-Semitism in the U.S. and Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. She boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress in July and selected far-left advisors for outreach to Jews and Muslims. Following a meeting with Netanyahu, Harris vowed not to be “silent” about Palestinian suffering and issued only conditional support for Israel’s right of defense, saying, “Israel has a right to defend itself and how it does so matters. What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating.”

Harris sought to require companies with more than 100 employees to pay men and women equally, regardless of differences in their experience or job specifics. She has been a leader in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) movement, by which jobs, promotions, and business opportunities are allocated by race and gender identification, rather than experience, capabilities, or merit. The Biden-Harris Administration mandates DEI in all federal programs, employment, promotions, and contracting (see here, here, here, and here).

Just a few months ago, Harris attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur for questioning Biden’s mental acuity, asserting Hur “could not be more wrong on the facts.” From July 18, 2023, to July 17, 2024, the public calendar shows that Harris shared at least 25 meetings, eight lunches, and 46 events with Biden. Yet Harris consistently—and falsely—defended Biden’s capacity to serve as president. “Joe Biden is extraordinarily strong,” Harris said in June. She added, “I spend a whole lot of time with our president, be it in the Oval Office or the Situation Room and in other places. And I can tell you…not only is he absolutely authoritative in rooms around the globe but in the Oval Office, meeting with members of Congress, meeting with leaders in industry, meeting with community leaders.”

The Trump campaign should run a loop of McCormick’s spot, together with video of Harris vigorously embracing other far left positions, her implausible, credibility-busting conversion to centrist, and a selection of her best word salads. This will give voters unvarnished information they have a right to know.

Harris instead prefers to con voters. The Harris campaign website has no policy or issues section, and with few exceptions, she avoids discussing policy in her speeches. Against this wall of silence, anonymous campaign officials are walking back her long-held positions. A July 29, 2024 New York Times article titled “Why the Kamala Harris of Four Years Ago Could Haunt Her in 2024” admitted that Harris ran in 2020 on the Left, but complained, “Now, in a tough general election, Republicans are digging up her old stances.” Shades of “Republicans pounce.”

The Times acknowledged that even after she dropped out of the last presidential election, Harris “joined other Democrats in supporting progressive ideas.” The once great broadsheet attacked Republicans for using Harris’s words against her: “One presidential cycle later…video clips of her old statements and interviews are being weaponized as Republicans aim to define her as a left-wing radical who is out of step with swing voters.”

Unintentionally poignant, the Times reported, “The Harris campaign will rebut most of Republicans’ attacks by arguing that they are exaggerating or lying about her record, said a campaign official briefed on the plans who was not authorized to discuss them publicly.”

Another anonymous Harris staffer told journalists that Harris no longer wants to ban fracking, impose single-payer health insurance, or a federal buyback of assault weapons. She now backs increased funding for border enforcement, and perhaps a border wall.

After nearly 40 days of refusing to participate in interviews or a press conference, Harris finally agreed to a pre-taped joint interview with Walz. Broadcast last night by CNN, the 49-minute hagiography intermingled a less than 20 minute warm and supportive exchange with Dana Bash, with footage of the pair campaigning, their families, and the DNC. Despite the softest of probes, and two efforts by Bash, Harris was unable to name any action she would take on day one, and spoke only in generalities about her goals. She confirmed that she no longer seeks to ban fracking, but refused to acknowledge her 2019 declaration that “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” Bash did not follow up.

In the interview, Harris said she would enforce immigration laws, but evaded Bash’s question about whether she still favored decriminalizing immigration. Harris did say, however, that “my values have not changed.” Finally, the truth.

Since being nominated for president, the one policy area in which Harris has been clear is the economy. And, unsurprisingly, she supports a radical Left agenda, which includes:

• A $5 trillion tax increase over a decade, including a 40% increase in corporate tax rates from 21% to 28% and increases in other corporate taxes that will make the United States uncompetitive in world markets, as well as multiple increases in individual tax rates, including phasing out capital gains tax rates for Americans earning more than $1 million.
• Price controls on U.S. businesses.
• Capital gains taxes on accrued, but unrealized gains.
• A federally funded $25,000 give away to first-time homebuyers.

To paraphrase liberal Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell’s view of Harris’s proposed price controls, if Harris wants to avoid being called a Communist, she might want to avoid far-left Marxist economic policies.

Showing her progressive bona fides, Harris passed over moderates to select a far-left running mate in Tim Walz. His first executive action as Minnesota governor was establishing a DEI council. He also worked to ensure that all state actions are viewed through a “lens of equity,” imposed a radical Critical Race Theory-based ethnic studies curriculum on Minnesota’s public schools, refused to use the National Guard to stop the riots after George Floyd’s death, and turned Minnesota into a sanctuary state. Walz approved driver’s licenses, state funded health care, and college tuition for illegal immigrants; 20-week taxpayer-paid family leave; and automatic voter registration without proof of citizenship or residency.

Walz supports restricting political speech that he deems inappropriate. He ordered 80% carbon-free electricity by 2030 and 100% by 2040. Under Walz, Minnesota has become a “trans refuge” and provides “gender-affirming care” for minors and mandatory tampons in boys’ bathrooms. His administration opened a hotline for residents to report neighbors who were noncompliant with the state’s stringent COVID-19 lockdowns.

The Harris-Walz campaign is working overtime to hide their candidates’ far-left views.

Except for her hallmark support of abortion rights, Harris’s acceptance speech at the DNC was almost devoid of policy. She never discussed immigration, inflation, DEI, transgenderism, women’s sports, fracking, fossil fuels, healthcare, law enforcement, international trade, the Big Green Deal, filibusters, the Supreme Court, Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran, and barely mentioned the Biden-Harris Administration. She never mentioned her proposed tax increases or price controls, her staff’s purported walk-backs, or any change in her long-held positions.

Harris reiterated her views on Israel’s conditional right of defense, and, despite the Biden-Harris Administration’s consistent cuts in defense spending, promised that America would have the “strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”

She falsely accused Trump of seeking to cut Medicare and Social Security, ignored the middle-class beneficiaries of Trump’s tax cuts and other policies, and claimed the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 speaks for Trump. (Trump was not involved in Project 2025 and disagrees with many of its conclusions.)

Harris accused Trump of intending to enact “what, in effect, is a national sales tax.” Though she presumably meant to disparage trade tariffs—many of which were retained or increased by the Biden-Harris Administration—the ambiguity becomes dishonest when talking to voters who are unaware of the legerdemain.

Harris oddly attacked Trump for requiring “states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions.” (Current law requires states to report on medical treatments.) She attacked Trump for cutting off IVF treatments—something he has never advocated and is expressly repudiated by the Republican platform.

The 2024 GOP platform states, “President Trump has made absolutely clear that he will not cut one penny from Medicare or Social Security.” It further promises, “We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting mothers and policies that advance Prenatal Care, access to Birth Control, and IVF (fertility treatments).”

In her speech, Harris also said that Trump’s “explicit intent [is] to jail journalists, political opponents and anyone he sees as the enemy.” That is pure invention. By contrast, the Biden-Harris Administration has weaponized the Justice Department to attack conservative parents on school boards, Catholics, and pro-life advocates. Its Justice Department is abusing a seldom-used 1870 statute to enhance the sentences of peaceful abortion protesters, and filed at least 50 cases under the FACE Act against pro-life activists, but only five against abortion activists. It sent federal agents armed with long guns to arrest Mark Houck in front of his children for shoving someone who threatened his child during a demonstration at an abortion clinic (Houck was later acquitted).

The Biden-Harris Administration unconstitutionally appointed special prosecutor Jack Smith to indict Trump, the first administration to seek to imprison a former president. They sent Trump advisors Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro to jail—the first time since 1948 anyone has been jailed for congressional testimony. And they unleashed an unprecedented campaign to censor, suppress, and demonetize conservative voices on social media.

In his acceptance speech, Walz claimed that Trump opposes IVF and fertility treatments and that Trump and Vance own Project 2025. He said, “If these guys get back in the White House, they’ll start jacking up the costs on the middle class, they’ll repeal the Affordable Care Act, they’ll gut Social Security and Medicare, and they will ban abortion across this country, with or without Congress.” These allegations are contrary to Trump’s long-held views and the GOP platform.

There are many policies about which the Democratic and Republican candidates disagree. These are policies about which Harris and Walz could appeal to voters to see things their way. But telling voters the truth about their views on policy is the last thing Harris and Walz want to do.