Good morning. It is saturday, august 5, harris has been taking a more prominent role in the campaign. She gave interviews, speeches, and met with foreign leaders while the president was on vacation this past week it the question this morning is about Vice President harris. What are your views and how would you rate her job performance. You can share your thoughts on our phone lines. The numbers are on your screen. You can send a text to the number on your screen. Be sure to include your first name and city state, and we are on social media at facebook and twitter. Welcome to washington journal. We are taking your calls. I want to show you an article from the Washington Post read, harris seems to be stepping up her 2024 role, and the article says Vice President harris is campaigning with the audiences she seeks an that word she uses bid they are not the words of a politician being sidelined for supporting even if that is hurt job as 20 between 40 subperiod the pace and tone of her involvement do seem to be escalating, but they may largely reflect the fact that the race is well and truly underway. We noted as much in may. Zeroing in on the republican focus on her. None of this should feel unfamiliar if you follow the 2022 midterm election. Autumn brought a boomlet in pieces, claiming that harris is helping energize constituencies. Americans who support action to abortion with an eye on her own political fortunes. Lets take a look yesterday, speaking to Small Business owners in the biden onyx. Two are entrepreneurs of america, including those today, you are the backbone of our community. You are part of the pride of our nation. President biden and i came into office with a plan. To grow and strengthen americas economy. We knew that for far too long, our economy had not been working for working people. Entire communities have been left out and left behind. Trickledown economics benefits big corporations. The wealthiest of americans, but not a lot of regular folks. When President Biden i took office, we invested in the working people of america. To create means of jobs, to rebuild any factoring. To repair roads and bridges. To replace every leadpipe internation. To connect every home with highspeed internet. To expand clean energy production. To make sure that every person in america, not just the wealthy or wellconnected have the opportunity to thrive. All of that, ladies and, that is called biden onyx. That portion was from yesterday, and we are taking your calls about as president harris. Here is the will headline that says harris Takes Center Stage with biden on vacation. He is due to come back on monday. We will start with paul from new york. Republicans. Hello. Good morning. Thanks for the opportunity. I dont think much of our Vice President. She supposed to be the czar, and she has not gone down to the border. She has done nothing about the illegal immigration crisis. I dont think much bread she is out there with word salad every other day, not doing anything about the Illegal Immigrants coming across the border. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Tim is next alabama. Democrat. Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Ive been watching biden and harris were the last two years now. When she is doing everything biden has asked her to, as far scoring going to the border, she went to the border, but good homeland security. They are the ones taking care of the border. I wish ive always wished that biden would let her speak about abortion voting rights. When he was in for president against trump, he didnt use her the way that he shouldve. Later on, as elections came down to the end, they called out obama and a few other people to help him wish when the election, and i think that he should use Kamala Harris with voting rights. That is a very big issue, and and abortion. Thank you for taking my call. The order, as tim mentioned is from the Texas Tribune as far back as 12 june 5, 2021. The u. S. Mexico border focuses on the causes of immigration towards the border facilities with local groups that aid migrants. They continue to attack her because they do not visit the border where it is happening, and that is a picture from that. Visit. Tim also mentioned abortion. Here is some of Vice President harriss comments on that and at an event marking the any anniversary of the anniversary roe v. Wade. We have one year ago today, the United States, the highest court in the land, the court of thurgood did the court of rpg. They booked a constitutional right that have been recognized. From the people of america. From the women of america. A fundamental right. A basic freedom. Most of us here remember where we were a year ago. The court decided dobbs on june 24 i was on my way, traveling from washington dc to a Maternal Health event in illinois. I heard the news. Outraged, i called my husband. There were a collection of words that would not have been proper for me to speak with some other people. Together, he and i talked. We talked about her daughter. We talked about my goddaughter. We talked about my niece and her daughter. I couldnt help but think that her generation would have fewer rights than my generation or my mothers generation. The three words that came to me that i spoke, publicly, were how how dare they. How are they. How dare they. We are taking your calls on Vice President harris. European of her. Then the republican in ocean city maryland. Good morning. Morning. I do not agree with Vice President harris on anything. That being said, i am not sure what has been going on with her since she entered her role as Vice President. She has always been very powerful speaker. During the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, she could speak red she could beat concise. She could make a great argument, and that is coming from someone who disagrees with her fundamentally on things politically. She has all of this experience to be the d. A. Of san francisco, in 2003. She was the attorney general of california. That is the largest Justice Department aside from the federal doj in the country. She can speak. She can make her point. She could become Vice President. She has rambling tangents. She was sitting around for six and seven minutes. I think she needs to find a new speechwriter and needs to find a new speaking coach. I think she is intelligent. How is life at the beach . Going well this time of year. Thats the truth. Ben mentioned the bio of the Vice President , briefly. You can find it at whitehouse. Gov. This is what the page looks like. It will tell you about the background, where she is born, and her career in california. The District Attorney in the state of california as of 2010, and the u. S. Senate. Herbert is on our line for democrats. Woodford virginia. Good morning. X good morning. How are you. You look beautiful today. I would like to say, i think the Vice President is doing a great job, and i wanted to commend you on Fact Checking all of these people who call in. Democratic or republican. You and pedro always do that and i appreciate that. You have a great day. Ray is next in simpsonville south carolina. How are you. Good morning. I am a veteran educator who has an opinion on harris. I think he is terrific person and educated. I think she is a gift to gabbert. I think if the president gives more responsibilities where things can be exercise, the entire country would realize that this is a true leader. There are other things i can say, but in essence, i just leave she is doing a fantastic job giving opportunities that the president has given her. Thank you. Are you still there . Yes. As an educator, i want to get your opinion on her row with Governor Desantis about how African American history is being taught. My thoughts are aligned exactly with hers. Desantis, in my opinion, i dont want to be cruel this morning, but perhaps he needs to be educated on the subject of slavery and perhaps, hopefully, they will better understand the time of slavery, but at this moment in time, i dont think he has a clue. Ok. Shirley is in arkansas. Republican. Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. You may hang up on me. I used to be a democrat, and ive changed, but i think joe biden and, harris, neither one can do a speech worth a crab, and i expect, harris two legs every time she starts cackling. She can make a million dollars, shari makes a million, but i have no respect for joe biden or, harris. Tell me about the policies you disagree with her Vice President harris of what youve heard from her . Everything. Everything. All right. Are you done . The black and white deal. I was raised picking cotton. Worked with blacks. We were all working trade we all got along. I am so sick of that. Everyone is gods children. There is no blackandwhite. There are people. Everyone needs to realize that. To respect the bible. Thats the way i feel. All right. Jay is a republican in monday illinois. Good morning. Yes. I really dont agree with biden or harris. I mean, ive really see nothing much out of harris. Biting, he just falls down all the time. But they didnt do nothing but ruin this country for the last two or three years, and people need to wake up and see that before the country is ruined. Ok. This is the Washington Post. It says republicans trained fire as they ramp up speeches on Racial Justice and abortion rights. Candidates see her as a target. It says this is the first job of the Vice President at the last hundred fundraiser from nikki haley. They told people at the dinner in iowa that a vote for joe biden is a vote for Kamala Harris. Tas who were actually running against. We have to make sure that she doesnt win. The next attack came from ron desantis. He is engaged in a public war of words with harris over slavery. Ive got, harris coming to florida, trying to create phony narratives that have stood up to the agenda. She thinks she can come down and lie in the state of florida. Charles in tennessee, the morning. Good morning. Do you hear me . We are talking about this, and i think Kamala Harris has done a pretty good job, but the main thing is what republicans stand for. , harris does not stand for cutting Social Security. She does not stand for doing away with what is being tried. She also, this is for the elections. Social security and womens rights are the most important things, but listen to her and joe biden. They are running wild. We have 13 million jobs that this man took office, and he is part of it. Mike pence is part of the thing that happened here. The trump administration. The two parties stand for the health care bill, and we can afford it. We can do it. We couldnt raise minimum wage, but everyone is paying 1314 dollars. It is time to move forward with the working and middleclass class. They cannot keep paying for everything. It is time to tax the wealthy. To get money from them. To put one pair of health care where everyone thank you and have a good day. The Washington Post article mentioned at republican attack. I wanted to trade this portion from the 2024 republican candidates who spoke at the iowa gop lincoln dinner and des moines. Heres part of what he said. We have the answers of what we need, but look at those issues and d. C. Has not handled any of them. That is why we have to have term limits and d. C. , once and for all. If this week didnt prove it to you, we have to have mental competence test for anyone over 75. That is not being disrespectful. These are people who make decisions based on our national security. They make decisions based on economic policy. These are not tough test. We are saying the words that match, and tell me forwards that start with the letter a. What town were you born in . How many grandchildren do you have . What . I dont know what you are laughing at . We need to start getting d. C. In order. Biden has proven to be incredibly weak, and Kamala Harris is not up to the job, and i will say that a vote for joe biden is a vote for, hairspray that is who we are running against. We have to make sure she doesnt win. That was nikki haley from iowa from last month, and take a look at this text we got saying bp harris has been outstanding in the performance of her duties. A person of good character, integrity and honesty. A first woman and nonwhite bp. She is amazing, those traits do not limit someones ability. Tony new york says my opinion on bp harris does not matter to me because i believe the Republican Party has a dictator and that scares me more than anything harris does or doesnt do and heres a tweet. I am not a fan. Going into elections, given the age and health, they will be scrutinized more than ever. Lets go to chris in south carolina. Thank you for taking my call. My point of view would be i havent seen that she has accomplished anything, and i dont know if she is a capable person of accomplish anything, and she is a poster child for diversity inclusion, and equity, and shows what happens we put somebody in a position that is not qualified to do it. Based on their race. That is my thought. Tell me more about you are not qualified. What would you say you are looking for . Just some basic leadership. Willing to take on something other than just have her name attached to it, not to do anything with it. All right. Lets talk to michael in south gate michigan. The morning. Good morning, how are you . I wanted to comment on the people who are calling and whining about not going to the border. When there was a president or a Vice President who anywhere, if it was a mess, they had three or four jets, cars, secret service red it all comes to a halt. And people call and whine about this. People dont need to go down there. All they have to do is listen to republicans. They must be counting the fence to sneak over because they know all about it. They know all about it. Theyve never been down there. And thats it. Theyve been doing a fine job with bringing sanity back to the white house, to washington dc. Anyways, thats enough. Thank you. John, democrat in sacramento powerpoint grid good morning. He couldnt of said it better. Insanity again did brought back to the white house. Anyways, theres another time you guys are mentioning it. I dont know what is wrong with you all. We see our country going down the drain with this crook in the white house. These white folk, these republicans, they something is wrong with them. You dont know what happened to trump with another indictment, and you act like it is all to be acting the way he is doing. The whole doggone news industry is screaming to book democrat because in our country, we dont want russia. These republicans take us straight to jim crow and they michael back to slavery, and it is calling and talking about republicans, and you might go for that man. You must be out of your mind. Please. This country is going to the pits. Just like the bible says. Babylon has become the cage of every dirty bird. She is the head of all of the dirty birds on the republican side. Thank you. John mentioned the former president , donald trump. He spoke at a dinner in montgomery alabama. That is the first public address after the third indictment. He talked about it. Take a look. We always put america first. In response, our enemies unleashed an army of rabid lust leftwing lawyers, and really corrupt marxist prosecutors. These are dishonest people. Bad people. To ranged agents at rogue intelligence. Remember the 51 intelligence officials that lied about the laptop. They said, the laptop. Russia said they all lie. 51 of them light. It would have made a difference of about 11 points in the election, according to the pollsters. They lied. As a result, everyone had fake charges from the biden geo j. Could have been filed to have years ago. They wanted to wait, and they did wait. Right to the middle of an election. They waited until i became the dominant force in the full polls because we are dominating everyone, including biden. Then, they dominate all of them, including local gas and agees, right in the middle of the campaign. We are leading by so much. Every time they file an indictment, we go up in the polls. We need one more indictment to close out the election. One more indictment in the selection and it is closed out. No one has a chance. We have already defeated the republicans pray there are two and three in one. They all want me to go to the big stage, and i say, if we are at 71, and they are at 0, 1, 2, three, some of them are or five. Does this make a lot of sense . Not really. Those were comments by present the president last night. Before the appearance, he put out a post on street social that said this red we will put this on the screen. If you go after me, im coming after you. There has been, as you can imagine, reaction to that post. This is a political article that says the fed alerts judge to trumps if you go after me, i will come after you post. The former president s message raises the specter that he might use evidence to targets target witnesses. He says the prosecutors on friday night, last night, called the judges attention to a social media post from donald trump did they say the former president appears to be clear that he is coming after those cc as responsible for this series of challenges he is facing. The team from the post from trump, bite specific implication references those involved in the criminal case to subvert the election in a court filing just before 10 p. M. On friday. Senior assistant special counselor and Thomas Wyndham alerted the judge of the latest crimo case, tanya chutkan, to combat the post from earlier in the day. The prosecutor said this post raise concerns that they might improperly share evidence in a case on social media and may urge that he be ordered to give any evidence they turn over from public view. All orders seek to prevent the dissemination or use of discovery materials, inc