WisGOP calls Harris Biden's sequel

(The Center Square) - Wisconsin Republicans blasted Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of her visit to Milwaukee on Tuesday as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, saying a Harris administration would continue the same policies as the current one.

In a media call by the Republican Party of Wisconsin that featured U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde, U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil and Wisconsin GOP Chairman Brian Schimming, all three tied Harris to current inflation rates and the border crisis – an issue she was tasked to handle since the beginning of the Biden presidency.

“I think it’s important to note that Vice President Harris is simply a continuation of the Biden-Harris administration,” Steil said. “The Democrats can change who the figurehead of the party is, but their policies remain the same. They continue to be the party of open borders, allowing drugs and fentanyl to come into Wisconsin and killing countless individuals. They remain to be the party of reckless spending, running inflation across this country.”

Since President Biden took office and assigned Harris with managing the border, more than 12 million migrants have crossed the border illegally.

Hovde, who is running against incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, lumped together Harris, Biden and Baldwin as equally blameworthy for what he called the failed policies of the current administration.

Schimming agreed with Steil that a Harris administration would function the same as the current one, but he also said her political history shows she is more liberal than Biden.

“Vice President Harris is Joe Biden, the sequel. That's the truth of it, is that she owns his record,” Schimming said. “But her personal record in the Senate is fair game because it gives us the picture of what she was really like before the handlers from the White House got a hold of her. So her reputation is very well-established.”

As senator representing California from 2017 to 2021, Harris was a member of the committees on Budget, Homeland Security and Government Affairs, and Judiciary, among others. She vocally opposed then President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and supported desegregation busing.

Schimming also pointed to Harris’ push for cashless bail during her time as district attorney of San Francisco from 2004-2011, her support of former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s plan to slash police funding and her opposition to fracking and school choice.

“So there’s issue, after issue, after issue, where Kamala Harris is not in sync with the people of Wisconsin, or the people of America,” Schimming said. “When the truth gets out, and people realize who she really is – and by the way, Kamala Harris’ favor polls are as bad as Joe Biden’s, so they are exchanging one bad candidate for another bad candidate, and hope that the people of this state and this country don't notice where he actually stands on the issues – we look forward to that discussion,” Schimming said.

In a recent Center Square poll conducted with Noble Predictive Insights, only 7% of Democrat-leaning likely voters preferred Harris as the Democratic candidate, ranking 7th out of 11 listed options.