Kamala Harris is a DEI Hire; We Need a President Who Earned Everything Himself

“MAGA Republicans are subjecting Vice President Kamala Harris to a barrage of racist and sexist attacks as she has stormed out in front as the likely 2024 nominee…GOP Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said that “100 percent, she was a DEI hire” insisting of Biden’s choice of Harris: “When you go down that route, you get mediocrity.” — Rolling Stone, 7/22/24

With Joe Biden dropping out of the race, Vice President Kamala Harris is now the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party. As a conservative, it’s clear to me that Harris is a DEI hire who hasn’t earned the credentials necessary to be president. This is especially true compared to Donald Trump, who has never been handed anything in his life.

Donald Trump is nothing if not a self-made man. In 1966, Trump chose to transfer from Fordham University to the more prestigious Wharton School of Finance. He attended the transfer interview with his father, Fred Trump, by his side for support, the way any normal student would. And, though we have yet to see his grades, we can only assume they were stellar.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris did her undergraduate at Howard University, likely taking a spot from one of the millions of White and Asian students who apply to Howard every year.

After graduating, Donald Trump got his first job at Trump Management, his father’s real estate company. Nobody in their right mind could argue that Donald Trump got that job as part of a “diversity initiative” or “underrepresented talent incubator.” He then started several businesses with nothing more than a dream and a few small loans from his father. And he led six of those businesses all the way from start to finish. Donald Trump is the candidate with the most experience seeing ideas all the way through to the end, whether it’s a casino or American democracy.

Kamala Harris was seemingly plucked out of obscurity for the VP pick in 2020. Her only prior experience in public service was as the District Attorney of San Francisco, the Attorney General of California, and as a United States Senator. And the only reason she got the job was because 81 million people mistakenly believed she was qualified.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, earned the presidency in 2016 by getting the second-most votes out of any of the candidates in contention. It’s a good thing the electoral college was structured in a way that Hillary Clinton couldn’t be handed the presidency simply because she was a woman.

DEI is running amok in this country. White men make up around 31 percent of the United States population, yet make up only 55 percent of Fortune 500 corporate board seats and hold only 62 percent of elected offices. The presidency is one of the few occupations that has remained (mostly) untainted from diversity hires. And after a brief period in which white men made up only 97.73 percent of United States presidents, it’s good to see that number has climbed back up to 97.83 percent. A drop down to 95.74 percent would be nothing short of catastrophic. We cannot afford to repeat the mistake of electing woefully unqualified candidates like Barack Obama rather than people who earned it by making a name for themselves, like George W. Bush.

Between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, it’s clear who has benefitted the most from their race and gender. And the American people deserve a president who hasn’t gained massive advantages in life from policies that gave preference to one group of people over another.