Does AP stand for Associated Publicists?

Conservatives today on social-media took after an article by AP reporters Zeke and Chris Megerian titled "How Harris balances competing messages as VP and candidate."

The joy of having liberal reporters as your unpaid aides means you can have it both ways! She's an incumbent and an insurgent! It's like that old skit where "it's a floor wax and a dessert topping!" 

Kamala Harris is having it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention, taking credit for parts of President Joe Biden’s record in rallies staged in front of Air Force Two while casting herself as a new leader who rails against “the politics of the past.”

In every presidential cycle candidates run on experience or freshness, but Harris so far appears to be successfully harmonizing two seemingly competing messages, much to the frustration of former President Donald Trump and his allies.

It's one thing to put Kamala flacks or Democrat hacks in your story to underline your premise. But then comes....the Republican support quote:

Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, said Harris’ ability to embody change has “a lot more to do with her age, her race and her gender, than it has to do with any policy positions that she’s articulated.” He added, “That shouts change.”

That's the dumbest, wokest quote in the whole sorry article. 

Miller and Megerian employ the usual lingo of struggling Republicans: "The Trump campaign has attacked her lack of policy specifics and tried to portray her as someone far more liberal than she’s letting on." But they're only "trying" apparently, because the media refuse to let Harris be defined in a negative light as a radical. 

At least there is a proper Republican reply: 

“We’ve certainly had a front row seat to the ‘honeymoon,’” wrote Trump pollsters Tony Fabrizio and Travis Tunis. “In fact, the Media decided to extend the honeymoon for over 4 weeks now.”

The article ends with an Obama bro saying she's the hopeful one: 

Voters, said former Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer, “are thirsting for a new, more hopeful politics.”

“If she can prove to people that she can turn the page, then Kamala Harris will win,” she said.

Here's some tweets in response: 

Harris is having it both ways only because the media won't call her out on her hypocrisy, or the fact that she won't give an unscripted interview where she has to state her policies and answer real questions. https://t.co/GPKCXgOLFy

— Sean The Producer (@SeanTheProducr) August 26, 2024

https://t.co/UGQFGXX4yk pic.twitter.com/nsFmOIDMnc

— Sunny (@sunnyright) August 26, 2024

All the media's hopes and dreams are pinned on "hopeful" and "joyful" Kamala and her "new politics," which isn't based on her actual politics, but on race and gender and age.