The fundamental problem with Kamala Harris’ campaign promises is that she has served as vice president of the United States for nearly four years. All those things she is out on the campaign trail pledging to do — well, what has she been doing since Jan. 20, 2021? “She just started by saying she’s going to do this, she’s going to do that, she’s going to do all these wonderful things,” former President Donald Trump said at the debate with Harris last month.
“Why hasn’t she done it? She’s been there for 3 1/2 years.” That’s one part of the Harris problem: She’s trying to run as a newcomer when, in fact, she has been in power for years and has a record to answer for. But there’s another part of the Harris problem, and that is the things she claims to have accomplished aren’t what she says they are.
Look at two examples: her $42.45 billion promise to make high-speed internet available nationwide and her $7.5 billion promise to build electric vehicle charging stations around the country.
Harris likes to say that “President Biden and I made the largest investment in affordable, high-speed internet in history.” (She often makes it sound like it was her money rather than that of taxpayers.) On June 26, 2023, she took part in a White House ceremony celebrating the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program, known as BEAD, which was intended to bring internet service to “unserved and underserved” rural areas.
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