Josh Barro: Harris, Dems Had ‘Temporary Insanity’ Around 2019, 2020 and that Baggage Stays With You

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BARRO: "She said it because she filled out a questionnaire from the ACLU in 2019 when there was a competition among Democrats to get as far to the left as possible and make every specific promise to every specific interest group they could, and the ACLU cared about it. She didn't have to fill out the questionnaire. Joe Biden never filled out the questionnaire. He didn't have this problem in the 2020 campaign or when he was running. The problem is that if you say something to one group, you say it in a questionnaire that actually CNN dug up earlier this year. She also talked about it on camera, so it was in the attack ads. You can't quarantine that and hide it away. And in a few years, when you're running a campaign somewhere else where that's unpopular, you know, the voters have object permanence. They know that you were talking about this in the past, your opponent will remind them that you were talking about it in the past and it remains as a liability. So, Democrats, you know, there was sort of this idea that there was temporary insanity in the party circa 2019-20 and we said a lot of silly things and whoops, sorry, but the problem is that baggage stays with you. And you have to run candidates who don't have that baggage."