KAMALA HARRIS’S NEVER-ENDING BORDER DODGE Entertainment legend Oprah Winfrey held a star-studded town hall for Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday. It took place in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in a key swing state, but celebrities from around the world connected via Zoom to help celebrate Harris’s last-minute candidacy for president. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Rock, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Stiller, and others joined in.
Don’t confuse anything that happened with the kind of scrutiny candidates undergo when they hold town halls under real campaign conditions. There was no cranky guy to get up and ask a question out of left field or a local activist determined to nail the candidate down on his or her obsession. No, in this case, Winfrey’s first question was “Can you feel the joy rising here?” (Harris said she could.) After that, Winfrey said, “It seems to us that something happened to you the moment Joe Biden stepped aside and withdrew his candidacy, that a veil or something dropped and you just stepped into your power.”
“So it’s a wonderful and important question,” Harris said. “You know my background was as a prosecutor, and I was also the elected attorney general for two terms of a border state, so this is not a theoretical issue for me. This is something I’ve actually worked on. I have prosecuted transnational criminal organizations for the trafficking of guns, drugs, and human beings. I take very seriously the importance of having a secure border and ensuring the safety of the American people.”…