A 2019 ACLU candidate questionnaire locked the Democrat nominee into positions to the far left from mainstream America.
Candidate questionnaires have long been a part of American politics, locking in politicians to certain policies, pledges and positions. But it has been decades since one has threatened to roil a presidential race, or undercut a major party nominee’s carefully crafted image.
The last time was in 1992 when President George H.W. Bush was stung by his decision to renege on the no-new-taxes pledge he signed as he tried to fashion himself as a Reagan conservative. Bush had earlier staked out that position at the 1988 Republican National Convention with his famous “read my lips” speech.
But Kamala Harris is facing the real possibility that the candidate questionnaire she filled out for the American Civil Liberties Union in 2019 may undercut her efforts to rebrand herself as a moderate and distance herself from the insecurity, immigration crisis, and inflation unleashed by her boss Joe Biden’s liberal agenda the last four years.
The reasons for the threat are simple. Five years ago Harris tried desperately to run to the left of Joe Biden during the 2020 Democratic primary, planting her flag on positions far from the American mainstream, particularly on immigration, law and order and social policy. She also suggested her earlier actions as California attorney general and a U.S. senator were proof of her commitment to far-left policies.
Writing to woo the ACLU, she committed to:
Taxpayer funding of gender reassignment surgeries and treatments for illegal aliens;
A pathway to citizenship for those who broke the law by crossing the U.S. border without permission;
The decriminalization of all illegal drugs under federal law including cocaine, heroin and fentanyl if a defendant claimed they were for personal use; and
The knee-capping of the nation’s main deportation agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, as it is colloquially known in Washington circles, by banning its use of deportation .
It’s a political ledge that may have no point of return, as the liberal-friendly CNN even made clear when it gasped this week upon learning Harris’s position on taxpayer-funded transgender treatments for illegal aliens. It’s also a precipice that Donald Trump and his MAGA-charging Republican base hope to make Harris crawl across by casting her as a “dangerous liberal.”
“I tell everybody that when she tells us what her position is we should believe her because she has told us on no less than two dozen occasions that she believes the border wall is a vanity project for Donald Trump and she would never, ever do it,” Trump confidante Corey Lewandowski told the “John Solomon Reports” podcast.
