A RESURFACED video of Kamala Harris has brought backlash to the Democratic nominee after she vowed to implement a controversial policy.
Harris threatened to “snatch” patents away from drug companies to lower costs in a 2019 speech – and the clip has raised concerns from voters on social media.
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In her speech at a campaign event in Iowa at the time, Harris spoke about how as president, she would make sure that the government sets a fair market.
She went on to say that companies that didn’t comply would be stripped of federal funding in order to lower prices for drugs.
“I will snatch their patent so that we will take over,” she said in the resurfaced video.
A rally attendee in the audience at the time then asked, “Can we do that?”
“Yes we can do that!” she responded.
“The question is, do you have the will to do it?
“I have the will to do it.”
‘SCARIEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD’
The clip is circulating on X as critics accuse Harris of plotting a “government takeover.”
“This is the scariest thing I’ve ever heard from a candidate for the President of the United States,” one X user wrote.
“Kamala Harris bragging about nationalizing private sector assets. She said she will ‘snatch’ their patents.
“She has the power to do that. If she’ll have the state steal intellectual property, she will have the state commandeer all property.
“This is the real dictator in waiting.”
“The party frightened about the ‘threat to our democracy’ is nominating a wannabe tyrant,” filmmaker Eric Abbenante slammed in a post.
Kamala’s legal background
Kamala’s background in law and politics spans decades.
Kamala Harris first began her career as a San Francisco District Attorney in 1998, when District Attorney Terence Hallin recruited her. Since then, she’s faced several controversial cases.
In 2004, Harris dealt with the shooting of Officer Isaac Espinoza. The 29-year-old San Francisco officer was in his unmarked car with his partner when he flashed his lights at a man named David Hill, Calm Matters reported.
Hill fired several rounds from his AK-47 at the officers, killing Espinoza. When Hill was being prosecuted, Harris refused to charge him with the death penalty. A decision she faced major backlash for. Harris’ decision to decline the death penalty immediately painted her as an anti-police prosecutor.
Since that case, Harris has positioned herself as a “progressive prosecutor.” However, many on the left have argued she was too tough.
“I don’t know what Harris could possibly do to regain the trust of those who are intimately familiar with the ways she, like any other prosecutor, has sent people to prison and made a career off of appearing to be tough on crime,” Wanda Bertram, a communication strategist at the Prison Policy Initiative told Vox.
“Well, this is crazy,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott reacted to the video.
“Here is Kamala Harris in 2019 when running the first time saying as President she would take peoples legally binded patents on their products or inventions and make them the governments,” another X user wrote.
“This woman is a full fledged communist and is trying hard to hide it this time around.
“Do not let someone like this ruin a capitalist country,” he added.
‘SHE’S A LUNATIC’
The insults hurled at Harris echoed the remarks of Donald Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, where he lobbed some critiques at his rival in the upcoming presidential election.
He said that while Harris’ plan to help the economy might “sound good politically,” it was still “very dangerous” and “communist.”
“People say, don’t use bad language,” he said at the event in Wilkes-Barre.
“They say, please don’t call people stupid, but they are stupid people. How else do you describe it?”
“She’s a socialist lunatic,” he continued.
“That’s the other thing, please sir, please don’t call her a lunatic, but that’s what she is – she’s a lunatic.”
“People say, be nice. Have you heard her laugh? That is the laugh of a crazy person.
“That is a laugh of a lunatic,” he said.
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The controversial video appeared days before the Democratic National Convention is set to kick off in Chicago.
And Trump and Harris themselves are slated to face off in an ABC debate on September 10.
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