Without earning a single vote in either the 2020 or 2024 presidential primary, Vice President Kamala Harris has been safely installed by the Democratic Party as this cycle’s presidential nominee, with the vice president replacing President Joe Biden, who plucked her from the political ignominy of dropping out of the 2020 primary months before the Iowa caucuses. The public can be excused, then, for not knowing much about Harris or her leftism extremism.

Despite past panic over polling that indicated Harris is more unpopular than any other vice president in history, including former Vice President Dick Cheney after he shot a guy in the face, party allies in the press have all stepped in line behind Harris, memory-holing her radical record to rebrand the former California senator as electable. Sites such as Axios accused former President Donald Trump’s campaign of lying when it called Harris Biden’s “border czar,” even though Axios itself had referred to Harris as the nickname in the past, and the ostensibly nonpartisan GovTrack wiped its documentation of Harris’s voting record as the chamber’s most left-wing senator. The New York Times has outright branded Harris as a “moderate,” not in its opinion pieces but in supposedly objective news stories.