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If Kamala Harris campaigned for president the way she is storming the country selling her book, she might have become president. Had she been more open with the media the way she is now — instead of hiding out from the press throughout the campaign — she might have prevailed. The vice president had some $1.5 billion in campaign funds to burn through. And burn through those funds, she did, So, things maybe could have been different, Not really. She was going to lose anyway. But it is something to think about. It is hard to imagine a President Harris dealing with dictators like Communist China’s Xi Jinping, war criminal Vladimir Putin of Russia or defiant Chuck Schumer of New York. It is doubtful that she would have sent the B-2 bombers to wipe out the nuclear facilities in Iran or done much to free the Israelis held hostage by the Hamas terrorists in Gaza. With Harris in the White House, John Kerry would have been back as climate czar, Maura Healey would be U.S. attorney general, and Elizabeth Warren would be Secretary of State. The border would be open with Gavin Newsom in charge, people being deported would be Republicans, and Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro would be bombing U.S vessels and not the other way around. Under President Donald Trump, however, Maduro, if he is lucky, will soon be back driving a bus or die in prison, like fellow drug kingpin Manuel Noriega of Panama after the U.S. invaded and arrested him. And the East Wing of the White House that Trump is turning into a ballroom? Forget about it. President Harris would have turned it into a Washington food pantry. If you think not, consider her quote about the ballroom last week. She said, “Are you f—–g kidding me? The guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while turning a blind eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the SNAP benefits end hours from now. Come on.” Nobody is going to starve in the U.S., and everybody knows it. And can you imagine President Harris ending wars around the globe the way Trump has done? Trump has settled so many wars between countries that he has lost count. He has even brought peace to countries that did not even know they were at war. So, with the defeat of Harris, the country dodged a bullet. Still, Harris is hanging in there hoping that lightning will strike twice and that she will once again be the Democrat Party nominee for president in 2028. Fat chance. The difference now is that this time she will have to fight for the Democrat nomination instead of being crowned by the party as she was in 2024 after Joe Biden melted down. Harris, however, will now face a wave of new, ambitious, young radical leftists like Andrea Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) or Zohran Mamdani (ZM) for instance, who have taken over the leadership of the Democrat Party Meanwhile, Harris still has old Joe Biden hanging around her neck like an ex-husband who won’t leave the house. Still, Harris is trying, and says she is not finished with politics, which is interpreted as that she will run again, or at least try. And she has remained in the spotlight not by campaigning for any candidate the way Barack Obama did, but by peddling her book. While stiffing the media in 2024 — and paying the price for it — Harris has now done interviews with more reporters promoting her book “107 Days” than she did during the entire 107 days of her presidential campaign. And she’s only been on her book-selling tour for 40 days. She apparently thought that the $1.5 billion she spent on her campaign would do the trick. It did not Harris spent the entire 107 days of her 2024 presidential campaign without holding a single official press conference, which must be something of a record. Now she loves the media, and reporters have to beat her off with a stick. Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
