Watchdog website PURGES report labeling Kamala Harris the "most liberal senator" of 2019

By bellecarter // 2024-07-30

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GovTrack.us, a website that tracks the passage of bills through Congress and the voting records of legislators, recently confirmed that it had removed a 2019 report that tagged then-Sen. Kamala Harris as that year's "most liberal" U.S. senator sometime within the last two weeks. The organization that provides "thorough documentation of U.S. congressional voting" labeled Harris as the "most liberal compared to all senators that year," outranking even progressive stalwarts like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The self-described "government transparency website" now displays a "Page Not Found" error prompt whenever the link is accessed. Moreover, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine illustrates that the webpage was yanked down sometime this month, the same month that Harris gained enough delegates to become the Democratic Party's Presidential nominee after President Joe Biden's announcement on July 21 of stepping down and endorsing Harris. According to GovTrack founder Joshua Tauberer, the webpage removal was a consequence of the group's policy shift enacted "several years ago" to end its single-year ratings of lawmakers to only do ratings based on Congressional sessions, which are two years. He did not disclose the exact date of the webpage removal. "We determined that the limited data available in a single year was not sufficient to create a reliable portrait of the activity of legislators, particularly given the ebbs and flows of the legislative calendar, and therefore did not serve as a useful tool to our users and the American public," Tauberer said. "We subsequently took down the previously published single-calendar-year statistics for the same reason." Tauberer told Fox News Digital that the organization was still publishing report cards based on two-year congressional sessions and pointed to Harris' existing 2020 web page, which ranked her ideology as the "most politically left compared to Senate Democrats" for the 116th Congress. She was ranked the second most liberal in all the Senate behind Sanders. Back in 2020, GovTrack reportedly said that the ranking was not reliable. "I think the short answer is that both things can be true: She can both be sponsoring/co-sponsoring left-leaning legislation, something with typically little risk, while also being pragmatic when push comes to shove on risky and impactful decisions," Tauberer added at the time. Harris has been known for her hard-left stances, such as support for Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, a ban on fracking, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, starting "from scratch" on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and more. But she later retracted most of them. For example, she clarified that she supports private health insurance. Former President Donald Trump and his allies have already seized on GovTrack's old rating, with the Republican nominee alluding to it at a recent rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. "Kamala Harris is the most liberal elected politician in American history. Did you know that? She's an ultra-liberal politician. She's absolutely terrible. She's as you know more liberal than Bernie Sanders, can you believe it?" Trump chided.

Democrats grow anxious about Harris' "weak" campaign skills

Democrats are now celebrating the end of their anxieties as the initial party flag bearer stepped down to give way to a younger candidate. However, in the privacy of their small circles, critics believe that the left-leaning individuals are starting to grow anxious again about Harris's prospects of defeating Trump. They are aware that she is largely untested as a candidate and faces serious challenges. Concerns are reportedly already bubbling up over her ability to connect as well as Biden did in 2020 with white working-class and union voters in three states that were critical to defeating Trump: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. "She wasn't a great candidate," one Democratic senator said of Harris's performance as a presidential candidate in 2020 when she pulled out of the Democratic primary before the Iowa caucuses. "She may not be as a political campaigner as good as Biden was in his prime." According to the senator, Harris's pure political skills won't be as crucial to her success now that almost the entire Democratic Party is rallying behind her and now that she has a clear path to the nomination when the Democratic National Committee holds virtual proceedings early next month. Sanders and his allies believe that Harris needs to do a lot more to win over blue-collar voters in these states. They weren't happy that Biden got shoved off the ticket after working closely with his top advisers to craft a progressive economic plan for the first 100 days of his second term. "For her to become president, she's going to have to be talking about issues that impact the 60 percent of Americans, working people who are living paycheck to paycheck," Sanders told the Hill last week. Meanwhile, a Democratic strategist also said it's not clear Harris will be a stronger candidate than Biden in November. The source further noted she was more associated with defending abortion rights and voting rights than tackling economic inequality during her three and a half years as vice president. (Related: If Kamala Harris replaces Joe Biden, survey shows Donald Trump’s lead in the polls would only increase.) Read more news about the vice president at KamalaHarris.news. Watch the video below that talks about Harris wanting socialism in the United States. This video is from the NewsClips channel on Brighteon.com.

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