Harris Squanders Another Opportunity

Democratic presidential candidates crave to be taken seriously on foreign policy, and Harris has evidently decided that the quickest way to do that is to embrace hawkish supporters of the status quo.

I wrote about the foreign policy issues that came up during the presidential debate for Antiwar, and I noted that Harris blew another chance to separate herself from Biden on Gaza:

Harris has had many opportunities in the two months since Biden dropped out to separate herself from the president on this issue. She squandered them all by sticking to the official administration line. The vice president would rather tout her support from the likes of Dick Cheney than try to win the support of antiwar voters across the country. Harris has been catering mostly to hawks this summer, and she prefers attacking Trump for being “weak” instead of using his policy failures against him.

Democratic presidential candidates crave to be taken seriously on foreign policy, and Harris has evidently decided that the quickest way to do that is to embrace hawkish supporters of the status quo. Why else would she boast about receiving endorsements from “200 Republicans who have…worked with President Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain”? Who thinks that this is a winning message?