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Democratic vice presidential nominee and U.S. Senator Kamala Harris speaks during the 2020 vice presidential debate with the U.S. Vice President Mike Pence \u00a9 REUTERS\/Justin Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n
By\u00a0<\/em>Tony Cox<\/em><\/strong>, a US journalist who has written or edited for Bloomberg and several major daily newspapers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kamala Harris has come a long way \u2013 if Joe Biden wins and is unable to serve a full term, she could become president of the most powerful nation on Earth \u2013 largely on her ability to look people in the eye and confidently lie.<\/p>\n That ability was front and center in Wednesday night\u2019s vice presidential debate, where Harris told bold fib after fib with scarcely a blink and got little pushback from Mike Pence. In the end, she walked off relatively unscathed and, of course, won praise from her adoring mainstream media, which has always loved her more than voters.<\/p>\n The first egregious deception came when Harris feigned outrage over last month\u2019s New York Times\u00a0non-bombshell<\/a>\u00a0about President Donald Trump\u2019s tax returns. Harris could barely contain herself waiting for friendly moderator Susan Page to spit out the rest of the question, setting up her rehearsed attack on Trump\u2019s loans.<\/p>\n \u201cJust so everyone is clear, when we say in debt, it means you owe money to somebody<\/em>,\u201d Harris condescended as she accented her point by nodding her head. \u201cAnd it\u2019d be really good to know who the president of the United States, the commander in chief, owes money to because the American people have a right to know. What is influencing the president\u2019s decisions, and is he making those decisions on the best interest of the American people, of you, or self-interest?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n