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Being President Isn’t Similar to Playing ‘Top Chef’

In their relentless effort to make their candidate seem warm and relatable, the Kamala Harris partisans have touted her assorted cooking videos on YouTube. But that spin can be taken too far.

Indian-American TV host Padma Lakshmi penned an op-ed for The New York Times titled “As a Cook, Here’s What I See in Kamala Harris.” The Times Opinion page summed it up on Twitter: In cooking, Harris “displays the very qualities this country sorely needs — her care, and her ability to tell a new kind of story about what it means to be American.” She also wrote, “Food relays the complexity of people’s stories.”

What is all this supposed to mean? Democrats always think they have cornered the market on traits like “caring,” and “complexity,” and story-telling. But this is just another saccharine narrative, meant to sell Kamala as the opposite of…

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