Why indeed? A good answer to this question does exist, but let’s start with the fact that Jon Karl made this a good question first.
Both Duane and I wrote about the segment yesterday on This Week in which Jon Karl appears to have conjured up a policy change that Kamala Harris has never personally articulated. Sen, Tom Cotton argued that Harris would enact radical policies like eliminating private health insurance, a position that Harris took publicly in the Senate by co-sponsoring Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill and then proposing one of her own in 2019 during her presidential run. Despite the fact that Harris has never personally repudiated that position, Karl tried to fact-check Cotton during the segment by claiming that was no longer her position, apparently based on an anonymous campaign leak to Politico.
Needless to say, this brings back some debate memories from 2012,…
