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Spin Cycle: The Reinvention Of Kamala, Part 647

The Daily Wire

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

The media spin on Sunday was focused once again on helping Vice President Kamala Harris — who until four weeks ago boasted about being the last one in the Situation Room as President Joe Biden was making important policy decisions — reinvent and reintroduce herself as an agent of change wholly unconnected to the disastrous policies of the president with whom she had just recently claimed to be working alongside.

During a panel discussion on ABC’s “This Week,” former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile raved about last week’s “joyful” Democratic National Convention and the fact that she had seen more Republicans there than ever before. Brazile did not comment on the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris, now the Democratic Party’s official 2024 nominee, had been foisted upon them despite never having won a single primary vote on her own merits.

“I’ve never seen so much unity at a Democratic convention,” host Jonathan Karl began. “There always are dissenters. Is it going to last?”

“Absolutely,” Brazile insisted, adding, “I saw more Republicans at the Democratic Convention than I’ve seen at any other time in my entire life.”

Brazile went on to claim that Harris had used the convention to “define” herself — and while it is true that Harris told a few stories about her upbringing and her personal history, she failed to introduce or reinforce a single policy position other than unfettered access to abortion (even during the convention).

Politico’s Jonathan Martin also weighed in, and whether intentionally or not, said the quiet part out loud: the Democratic Party appeared completely unfazed by the fact that Harris was literally reinventing herself in real time, behaving as though the radical policy positions she espoused during her short-lived 2019 presidential campaign had never existed at all.

“What’s incredible is the party is so united that they have given her a pass effectively to reinvent herself whole cloth from her 2019 ill-fated bid for the presidency,” he said.

On CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” anchor Margaret Brennan pointed to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, executed by the Biden-Harris administration three years ago, and asked whether the specter of that debacle would follow Harris as she attempted to put distance between herself and almost every Biden-Harris policy.

Brennan asked the question of Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY), a veteran who had previously cited the Afghanistan withdrawal as a reason that President Biden should not seek reelection.

“We’ve got to stop assigning partisan blame on fundamental things like national security,” Ryan said, suggesting that Harris was simply being attached to Biden’s decision for political convenience. At the time, however, Harris had bragged about being the last person in the room when Biden had made the call to pull everyone out of Afghanistan. The Biden-Harris administration then presided over the chaotic evacuation of American citizens and the resulting deaths of 13 American service-members — in a terror attack at Kabul airport’s Abbey Gate — and left hundred if not thousands of Afghan allies behind to defend themselves against the Taliban.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked the obvious question on “State of the Union,” pressing Senate Cory Booker (D-NJ) on the fact that Harris has a record as the sitting Vice President and is desperately trying to hold herself up as a candidate who will bring “change” if elected.

“A new chapter? I mean, she’s the incumbent vice president,” Tapper pointed out, noting that the entire Democratic Party appeared to be ready to help her outrun that fact. “Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. How can Democrats talk about a new chapter, turning the page? You guys are the ones writing the book.”

Booker claimed in response that “MAGA Republicans” were still exercising control over Democrats, and said that the 2024 election was a way to “finally kill that strain of the Republican Party” so that “pragmatic Republicans” — by which he appeared to mean Republicans who were willing to compromise — could regain control of the party.

On MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Dan Pfeiffer told the former White House Press Secretary that Harris was making politics about something beside former President Donald Trump — making no mention of the fact that at the DNC, Trump got more mentions on just the first day than major issues like inflation, the border, and the war between Israel and Hamas got the entire week.

“Over the last month here, [Harris] has made politics for the first time in nearly a decade about something other than Donald Trump, and that is what is driving Donald Trump absolutely insane,” he claimed.