OPINION:
On Election Day, one person will pull the hardest for Vice President Kamala Harris to lose. No, not former President Donald Trump. Not Elon Musk, either.
President Biden.
Mr. Biden has never liked Ms. Harris.
Ms. Harris has been playing the race card since forever. Unlike former President Barack Obama, the newly anointed Democratic presidential nominee cites her race at nearly every turn — and brace yourself for the next four months; you’ll hear it endlessly. Back in 2019, when Ms. Harris was trying to win the Democratic presidential nomination (she dropped out months before the first primary while polling in the low single digits), she declared that Mr. Biden was a racist.
“There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day, and that little girl was me,” Ms. Harris said in a debate. Then she turned to Mr. Biden.
“Do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America?” she spat.
“I did not oppose busing in America,” Mr. Biden responded, his voice rising. “What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education.”
Of course, The Associated Press did a fact-check on whether Ms. Harris called Mr. Biden a racist and concluded she did not, which obviously means she did. The AP noted that she prefaced her scathing blast by saying to Mr. Biden, “I do not believe you are a racist” — but then she clearly alleged Mr. Biden was a racist.
When it came time for Mr. Biden, who has played identity politics as long as anyone, to pick a running mate, he knew what he had to do: Pick a Black woman. After all, Mr. Biden said he’d appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court (never mind if she was the most qualified) — and he did.
This past Sunday, Mr. Biden thankfully threw in the towel. Sadly, he is fading fast. Anyone paying attention (that excludes the mainstream media) has seen that Mr. Biden has gotten progressively worse cognitively. He can barely finish his disastrous term, let alone govern until 2029.
In his letter announcing his departure from the race, he forgot to say whom he’d support in the election in four months. So he put up another post on X, saying, “Today, I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be our party’s nominee this year.”
As we all know, Mr. Biden dropped out because he was about to get creamed on Nov. 5 (and because his brain doesn’t work anymore). But as Mr. Obama has done repeatedly, he could have endorsed no one, saying (with no irony) that he wanted the party to work out its issues and coalesce around a wonderful candidate.
But he didn’t do that. Instead, he backed Ms. Harris, which will surely be her campaign’s kiss of death. Make no mistake, he fully meant to curse her with … him. He loved to say theirs was the Biden-Harris administration — occasionally called her “President Harris” by mistake — and so, let me give you this, Kamala. Me!
John Morgan, a prominent donor for Mr. Biden, nailed it in a single tweet. The donor, founder of Morgan & Morgan, the largest personal injury law firm in America, said Mr. Biden took his anger out on America when he backed his vice president.
“Joe Biden’s endorsement of Kamala is his f—- you to all who pushed him out,” he wrote on X. “Be careful what you wish for.”
And there it is. Mr. Biden backed Ms. Harris to drag her down — and he will.
Inflation is out of control — in 2022, the average rate of inflation was 8%, a level not seen since the early 1980s. His administration rescinded Trump-era rules and then let in at least 10 million foreigners illegally — flooding the job market and driving down the cost of labor. Ms. Harris was, it’s worth noting, “border czar” the whole time.
Mr. Biden transferred the cost of deadbeat student loans to taxpayers and forced girls’ sports teams to accept biological males (not to mention pushing drag shows at elementary schools). He also removed work requirements for welfare, so everyone was always getting free money.
That’s the record Mr. Biden has bequeathed to Ms. Harris. It’s exactly what Mr. Morgan said, a “big f—- you to all who pushed him out.” And when Ms. Harris loses on Election Day, Mr. Biden will be ecstatic.
• Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on X @josephcurl.
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