Fox & Friends Attack on Kamala Harris Ends Up Making Her Seem Centrist And Bipartisan: ‘Basically She Has Republican Views Now’

As both the Trump campaign and conservative media outlets appear to struggle with finding an effective line of attack on Vice President Kamala Harris, Fox & Friends pivoted to the time-tested “flip-flop” criticism that helped torpedo John Kerry’s presidential bid and elicited hours of televised footage of the former Senator windsurfing.

But an unintended consequence of hanging a lantern on the presumptive Democratic nominee’s shifting positions on border policy, among others, is the open admission that she is now running on policies that are very much in lock step with the Republican party, which may not be the message the Trump campaign wants to have broadcast on the top-rated right-0f-center morning show.

Seeing as immigration is a massive issue in the 2024 election, and Harris played a pivotal role as border czar (but not Border Czar) in the Biden administration, her past rhetoric on a clearly failed immigration policy is fair game, which co-host Brian Kilmeade reasonably went after her by noting how she hadn’t visited the border until late as Vice President.

“That’s the big thing…You should go,” he stated before reading a prepared criticism of her past border policy. “She would think about abolishing Ice. To add more cops is wrongheaded thinking. She entertained the idea of felons voting. And she supported a mandatory buyback program that’s called ‘I’m coming to take your guns, and I’ll give you 100 bucks.'”

“She’s changed all that!” Kilmeade added, and after Ainsley Earhardt chimed in, he added, “And by the way, if flip-flopping on all these ideas, it’s such a good idea. Why didn’t she have these ideas to begin with? They happen to be all Republican ideas.”

Now one could argue that in a deeply divided partisan nation, where most Americans hate the fact that political rivalries get in the way of progress? Kilmeade’s intended ridicule might actually have some appeal to centrist or even center-right voters?

Later in the show, at the top of the 7 AM hour, Fox & Friends held another discussion on Harris’s alleged flip-flopping; Earhardet intended to mock Harris’s evolving position on guns before admitting, “Basically, she has Republican views now.”

Holding politicians accountable for shifting positions is a reasonable political attack, particularly if it reveals a larger double standard or hypocrisy. But politicians change their positions all the time. And Harris’s alleged pivot to the center, by adopting Republican views? Well it undermines the anti-Harris attacks as a “Crazy” and “far-left” loon we hear from former President Donald Trump and much of Fox News prime time opinion programs.

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