RT-Engels: 10-09-2024,
Internet sleuths discovered that VP’s website told viewers to “re-elect Joe Biden today”
US Vice President Kamala Harris has finally revealed her policy proposals, only for eagle-eyed viewers to discover that her website’s ‘issues’ section appears to have been lifted wholesale from President Joe Biden’s site.
Harris announced her candidacy in July, after Biden – who appeared visibly senile during a debate with Donald Trump the previous month – suspended his campaign. While Harris’ entry to the presidential race was met with enthusiasm from Democrats, the vice president has come under increasing pressure for refusing to sit for unscripted interviews and declining to publish any policy proposals on her campaign website.
The Harris campaign appeared to rectify the latter concern on Sunday, adding an ‘issues’ section to the site. However, X user Corinne Green discovered that the section’s metadata – information not normally visible to someone browsing the site – indicated it was copied from Biden’s now-defunct campaign site.
Inside the section’s code, a line reading “Are you with us? Join our campaign to re-elect Joe Biden today!” could be seen. This line was visible when links to the issues section were shared or viewed in Google’s search results, The New Republic, a leftist news site, noted.
The error has since been corrected, and links to the issues section now read “Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are fighting for a New Way Forward.”
“This is dangerous territory for Harris,” The New Republic wrote,