Former Democratic South Carolina state Rep. Bakari Sellers defended Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday by quipping that “Google is free,” in response to criticisms about Harris not having an official policy platform listed on her website.
Since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, she has faced criticism for not publishing a formal policy platform on her website and for not granting an in-depth press interview until Thursday evening.
Appearing on “CNN News Central,” Sellers pointed to Harris’s mid-August economic plan when addressing Republican criticism over her lack of a clear policy platform.
‘Google Is Free’: Dem Guest Tells CNN Hosts It’s No Big Deal Harris Doesn’t List Policies On Website: 'Petty and fickle' https://t.co/slqJhY6dK7 pic.twitter.com/YBqkEoiwbF
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“If I was being petty and fickle, I would be like Google is free, but since we’re on national TV, I‘ll talk about the fact that she doesn‘t want to raise taxes over individuals who make more than $400,000. She talks about expanding the child tax credit,” Sellers said. “She talks about making sure that individuals have a tax credit for the $25,000 down payment on their first home. She actually talks about a tax credit for those individuals that are building those homes — are building 3 million new homes because she understands that we have a housing crisis in this country. So there is a long list of policies that she talks about day in and day out on the campaign trail that she talked about last night with Dana Bash, that she will continue to talk about, and she will continue to roll out new policies and plans,” Sellers said.
Sellers argued that because Republicans have a “fundamental inability to deal” with Harris “as a candidate,” they “resort to” focusing on her perceived lack of “policy points.”
HARRIS: "I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed." pic.twitter.com/AvvVEUhpmo
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“The irony in this whole thing is that there was a drumbeat for Joe Biden to get out of the race, and when Joe Biden got out of the race, the Republican Party, even some of the more seasoned veterans, act as if Kamala Harris is — they have a fundamental inability to deal with her as a candidate,” Sellers continued. “So they resort to things like she doesn‘t have policy points on our website when it‘s very clear what her policies are, she just wrote out a housing plan last week.”