The left-leaning corporate media’s constant defensive coverage of Kamala Harris seems to be doing its job quite well, as a recent poll from the Media Research Center reveals that over 70 percent of Democrats have no clue what Harris actually stands for. The poll, which surveyed 1,200 registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020, found that on ten different aspects of Harris’s public record, a staggering 71% to 86% of these voters either hadn’t heard of Harris’s positions or were unsure about them. This is particularly troubling when it comes to critical issues like immigration and crime, where Harris has taken some pretty extreme stances that have apparently been kept under wraps by her media allies.
For instance, 78% of those surveyed were unaware that Harris promoted a fund that helped bail out violent protesters during the 2020 riots. Meanwhile, 75% had no idea that Harris was once named “the most liberal U.S. senator” in 2019. These aren’t exactly minor details, but somehow, they’ve managed to slip past the radar of the very people who are likely to vote for her.
The ignorance doesn’t stop there. Seventy-four percent of respondents had no clue that Harris advocated for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, and 72% were in the dark about her failure to visit conflict zones on the border as the so-called “Border Czar.” But given that these voters mainly get their news from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC, it’s not all that surprising that they’re so uninformed.
According to the Media Research Center, this lack of awareness among voters points to a glaring failure—or perhaps a deliberate strategy—by these outlets to report on Harris’s more radical positions. It’s almost as if the media is working overtime to help Harris rewrite her history and present herself as a moderate, despite her far-left track record.
Further analysis by the Media Research Center revealed that from July 21 to August 10, eight of these ten issues received absolutely no coverage from ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news. The remaining two issues were given only minimal attention. It’s clear that the media has decided to protect Harris at all costs, even if it means keeping voters in the dark about who she really is.
Now, one might be tempted to give these voters a pass for not knowing about Harris’s radical positions, especially since she hasn’t exactly been forthcoming with any official proposals. But if these voters go to the polls without understanding what Harris truly stands for, they’re just as responsible as the media for the consequences.
The real culprits here, though, are the so-called journalists who refuse to hold Harris accountable. Instead of pushing her to explain how she plans to fix the mess her administration has created, they’ve chosen to sweep it all under the rug. Even in a recent episode of The New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast, politics reporter Astead Herndon practically laughed off the idea of holding Harris accountable, saying that most Democrats don’t care what kind of president she’d be as long as she can defeat Donald Trump.
A functioning media should care about these things. But instead of doing their jobs, they’re too busy propping up a candidate whose policies remain shrouded in mystery. Just like they did with Joe Biden, they’re once again choosing to protect their preferred candidate, no matter the cost to the American public.
