When it comes to the issues of the 2024 campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris is hoping everyone just ignores the fact that she has been, and still is, part of the Biden administration.

Harris told reporters on Saturday she would release her policy platform “next week” and that it would “be focused on the economy and what we need to do to bring down costs.” She also said at a rally in Wisconsin that “it will be a day one priority to fight to bring down prices.”

That would all be wonderful news from just about any other candidate, but Harris is in power. She is the vice president, one who supposedly has an important role in the Biden administration. If she has a grand plan to fight increased costs, she should be passing it along to President Joe Biden and fighting it now, not on a future “day one.”

The same goes with immigration, on which Harris has promised to fight for “strong border security.” Harris was already made Biden’s “point person” or “border czar” when it came to immigration, in the words of her liberal media allies. The border crisis worsened under her supervision, but she wants you to believe she will flip the switch if she manages to win in November.

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Harris’s campaign promises are inseparable from the fact that she has a record as part of the administration in power right now. When Harris was asked why she hadn’t visited the border despite being given an important role dealing with immigration, she derisively dismissed it by saying she hadn’t been to Europe, either. She was the tiebreaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, the deceptively named climate bill, as Biden himself admitted, that made inflation worse.

Harris’s candidacy carries all the failures of the Biden-Harris administration, from the aforementioned problems of immigration and inflation to the botched Afghanistan withdrawal in which Harris supposedly had an important role. Harris has been, and still is, the second-in-command in a historically unpopular administration. The idea that her presidency would look any different than the failed one she served as vice president is a fiction that Harris wants to sell to voters with the help of a liberal media apparatus she knows is rooting for her.