Well, Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech at the convention will be a big deal, and the press will cover it intensely. The fact is, the speech she gave last Friday in North Carolina may be the most important speech of the entire campaign, for reasons I don’t understand, she decided to outline an extraordinarily big government socialist position to take on the question of the price of food, to suggest that the real problem wasn’t that the government was spending too much, that inflation was going up in general, but instead to suggest that somehow people were gouging prices, that corporations were in some sneaky way trying to rip off people. Now the problem with that is that it leads you down a road of suggesting that big government socialism works, and that free enterprise capitalism does not work, and that doesn’t work for politicians, because the average American knows that having a government bureaucrat watch the price of eggs, for the price of milk, for the price of meat, isn’t going to solve anything that, in fact, the real problem with inflation is too much spending, and that’s what made this speech doubly bad, because in this speech in North Carolina, Vice President Harris suggested $1,700,000,000,000

in additional spending. Now, I found that really strange, because the fact is, most Americans, almost 80% think that the government spends too much money, not too little. Most Americans believe that big government deficits increase the price increases, increase inflation and make life harder for the average American. So here you had a moment when the one hand, for the last couple of weeks, Vice President Harris has been running around trying to deny that her record has the San Francisco radicals accurate, trying to suggest that she now has different views, different ideas. And then on Friday, she went out and for reasons I literally can’t understand, decided to give a speech which was more radical, involved more government intervention than anything that Bernie Sanders has ever suggested. And Bernie Sanders is the only self described socialist serving in the US Senate. So if you’re to the left of Bernie Sanders, it’s pretty hard to argue that, in fact, you’re really in an average position. And that gets me to what I think will be the key test of the fall campaign. Are we going to see someone named Kamala Harris who works really hard not to represent the Biden administration, not to represent San Francisco radicalism, or are we going to gradually see vice president Harris tied down to having already been vice president for over 1300

days, and clearly indicating in key speeches like North Carolina that she really is a big government socialist? I think that’s the key test of this presidential campaign and.