God forbid the Democratic presidential nominee should have to answer a question or two from the press.

In what world is Harris’s refusal to engage with reporters acceptable to voters? The only interview she has granted since launching her campaign was recorded and edited before it aired and was conducted by a friendly journalist who rarely asked a follow-up question. And even with these unheard of conditions, she insisted her running mate tag along for moral support.

Once rated the most liberal sitting senator, who only four years ago supported a ban on fracking and offshore drilling, open borders, Medicare for All, and the Green New Deal, Harris has renounced her own record. And her only explanation is that while her positions have changed, her “values” have not. Not even the far-left NBC News correspondent Yamiche Alcindor believes her. 

Harris plays up her experience as a “tough on crime” prosecutor, but a look at her record shows the opposite is true. In a Monday op-ed published by The Federalist, one of Harris’s peers during her time as San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general called her a “failed prosecutor.” Grover Trask, who served for 24 years as Riverside County’s district attorney, noted: “Her actions reveal more sympathy for criminals than for crime victims and law-abiding members of the public.”

Perhaps her most destructive action came during her tenure as California’s attorney general. Harris was tasked with writing the ballot description for Proposition 47, “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act,” a law that reduced some drug and theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. 

Harris’s misleading description led to its passage, and it has been wreaking havoc in the state ever since. Trask wrote: “Theft and drug abuse throughout California soared, causing significant harm to thousands of victims. The law enforcement community dubbed Prop 47 the ‘get out of jail free card.’ Ten years later, there is no accountability for the victimization or jobs lost and businesses closed due to Prop 47 crime.”

This is the true Harris, the far-left radical whose views remain very much unchanged. Why else would she have chosen far-left Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) to be her running mate? In a nod to her progressive base, she passed over the popular, centrist Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), who is Jewish, for Walz. 

Recent polling data indicate this was a poor decision. RealClearPolitics’s Tom Bevan pointed out that Harris’s lead in Minnesota is now “half of what it was a month ago before she added Walz to the ticket.”

Moreover, independent journalist Mark Halperin commissioned polling firm Wick Insights to survey likely voters in Pennsylvania last week. 

First, Wick asked participants whom they would support between a Republican ticket of Trump/Vance and a Democratic ticket of Harris/Walz. Harris led by a margin of 49% to 48%.

Wick also conducted several hypothetical matchups. They replaced former President Donald Trump’s current running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), on the Republican ticket with former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley. In that scenario, Harris led Trump by a margin of 48% to 46%.

Finally, voters were asked to choose between a Trump/Vance ticket and a Harris/Shapiro ticket. Harris’s lead increased significantly. She led Trump by a margin of 51% to 45%.

The few policies that Harris has bothered to release also reveal just how far to the left she would govern if elected. Her widely panned economic plan includes price controls and a $25,000 down payment assistance plan for first-time homebuyers.

Frankly, it’s amazing that Harris was willing to share these economy-wrecking proposals with the public. We can only imagine what she is holding back.

There’s a reason why the Harris campaign website continues to lack a policy platform. The campaign wants to hide the most frightening parts of her agenda until after the election. 

If former President Donald Trump wins in November, he will likely be able to reverse much of the damage caused by the Biden-Harris administration. But a Harris-Walz victory would cement much of that destruction.

Voters must ignore what Harris reads off her teleprompter at rallies and focus on her past actions. Because, as Shakespeare once warned, the past really is prologue.

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Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and the Western Journal. Follow her on X or LinkedIn.