‘The View’ Tees Kamala Up To Explain How She’ll Be Different From Biden, And She Still Fails

On ABC’s “The View,” cohost Sunny Hostin on Tuesday teed up the perfect opportunity for Vice President Kamala Harris to explain how she would set herself apart from President Joe Biden, and Harris still failed to give a substantive answer.

Harris became the Democratic Party’s nominee-by-default in late July, when President Biden announced his plan to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed her, and in the weeks since, she has tried relatively unsuccessfully to separate herself and her candidacy from her administration’s wildly unpopular policies.

And on Tuesday, Hostin asked her directly: “As Vice President, you’ve worked very closely with President Biden for almost four years. He was here on our show, and he said there wasn’t a single thing he did that you could not do. What do you think would be the biggest specific difference between your presidency and a Bidency — a Biden presidency?”

“Well, obviously, we’re two different people, and we have a lot of shared life experiences, for example, the way we feel about our family and our parents and so on,” Harris began. “But we’re also different people and I will bring those sensibilities to how I lead.”

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Hostin: If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?
Harris: There is not a thing that comes to mind… pic.twitter.com/t0CKBfahCv

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Hostin tried again, asking this time for specifics: “If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?”

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Harris thought for a minute before replying, “There is not a thing that comes to mind, in terms of … and I’ve been a part of — of most of the decisions that have had impact.”

“Um, the work that we have done, for example, capping the cost of insulin at $35 a month for our seniors, is something I care deeply about,” Harris continued, leaving out the fact that in order to cap insulin prices at $35 per month, Biden had first had to rescind the policy implemented by former President Donald Trump (which had capped the price at $35 per month) and wait for the cost to go back up.

She went on to tout the number of jobs “created” by the Biden-Harris administration, neglecting to mention that many of those were returning jobs that had only been lost due to COVID lockdowns — and that a fair number of those had been later “revised downward” despite initial reports. “The work we have done to invest in American industries, whether it be in terms of manufacturing and creating almost 800,000 new jobs around manufacturing.”