Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris thought she was slick.
On the very same day that the senator expressed excitement over fellow candidate Beto O’Rourke joining the 2020 race, telling an MSNBC host “the more the merrier,” a report emerged that Harris had been sneakily plotting against her new contender.
According to screenshots captured Thursday by Logan Dobson, who reportedly works for the Republican strategy firm Targeted Victory, Harris’s campaign purchased Google Ad campaigns for the keywords “Beto” and “America.” This means that anytime someone without an ad blocker issued a Google search query containing the words “Beto” and “America,” they’d see her campaign ad.
This itself is no big deal: “The issue isn’t running search ads against your opponent’s name — that’s super common and non-controversial!” Dobson noted.
A short story of DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY trickery –>
KAMALA HARRIS runs google search ads on BETO’s Name (keywords ‘Beto’ and ‘America)
(1/) pic.twitter.com/fJ83G5snLV
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 14, 2019
What’s stunning is that the page Harris’s ad redirected users to appears to have been purposefully designed to trick users into thinking they’re signing up for O’Rourke’s campaign.
“[W]hen the user clicks [Harris’s ad] — intentionally or unintentionally — they’re taken to a KAMALA sign-up page,” Dobson explained. “But TWIST: the page has been doctored to match BETO’S black & white colors, and Kamala logo moved off to the side.”
And the proof that all this was done purposefully lies in the page’s URL:
https://action.kamalaharris.org/sign/kdh_190312_general_search/?source=ads_search_190306_%2Bbeto%20%2Bamerica_ad1_337814897414&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj9ifyK-C4QIVTFmGCh1omQFwEAAYAiAAEgIA0fD_BwE
Look:
when the user clicks – intentionally or unintentionally – they’re taken to a KAMALA sign-up page.
But TWIST: the page has been doctored to match BETO’S black & white colors, and Kamala logo moved off to the side
(tricky Kamala-Beto page left, regular Kamala-Kamala page right) pic.twitter.com/NPlVzIQfjY
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 14, 2019
The proof that this was intentionally doctored to look like a Beto page? All in the URL for the search ad –> https://t.co/Wjpusio3Fq
Look closely and you’ll see “%2Bbeto and %2Bamerica_ad”
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 14, 2019
and that’s how you get people interested in Beto’s big announcement to – accidentally or intentionally – sign up for Kamala Harris’s email list
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 14, 2019
The issue isn’t running search ads against your opponents name — that’s super common and non-controversial!
But designing a new email sign-up page to mimic your opponent’s color scheme? That’s just a weeeeeee bit trickier.
to be clear, I admire it
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) March 14, 2019
The ad has since been removed, though the page remains online.
While what the senator did is neither illegal nor necessarily unethical, it’s a reminder of her incredible duplicity, especially in light of what she’d said earlier Thursday on MSNBC.
When asked by an anchor what she thinks of O’Rourke joining the race, she said, “As far as I’m concerned, the more the merrier … I think we have an embarrassment of riches among the Democrats who are running. We have incredible public servants who are smart, whose voices are important and I think it’s going to be a robust and a very healthy process, and I’m looking forward to it.”
It’s unclear whether she thinks using trickery to deceive voters is a “health” thing to do …
Listen:
This isn’t Harris’s first act of duplicity, nor will it likely be the last. She’s told so many lies about her past work as a tough prosecutor that even CNN has been forced to call her out.
Case in point: During her 7-year stint as San Francisco’s DA, she publicly supported a policy enacted by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom that called for transferring illegal alien teens arrested for felonies over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When questioned about this policy last month, she lied.
“That ended up being an unintended consequence of the policy and I did not support that consequence of that policy,” she said on “Political Party Live,” a podcast about Iowa politics.
But according to a report by CNN, everything she said was a lie, or as the network put it, a ‘mischaracterization’: “Reporting arrested undocumented juveniles to ICE was not an ‘unintended consequence’ of the policy, it was the policy.”
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
She’s even allegedly lied about small stuff. During an appearance last month on The Breakfast Club, a New York-based morning radio show, she claimed that she used to listen to the music of rappers Snoop Dogg and Tupac while smoking marijuana in college. The problem is she graduated college long before Snoop Dogg and Tupac even emerged on the music scene, as noted by the hosts of “Fox & Friends”:
*facepalm*
Here’s some advice from America to Sen. Harris: STOP LYING.
And not just about her past. She needs to stop lying about everything:
No.. he was elected In part to build a wall and secure the border. Stop lying please.
— Tim (@Xcathdra) March 16, 2019
This is all such a hoax, just Russia collusion. Stop lying to the American ppl.
— David McCurry (@DavidMcCurry17) March 16, 2019
The struggle does not continue. We have equal voting rights. Stop lying. Automatic registration is an infringement on individual liberty. Go away.
— RL Indora (@persnificte) March 16, 2019
Not sure where you get your info from but you really need to stop lying. Now.
— John Myers (@johnmyers2) March 15, 2019
Climate change has been going on for millions of years. There’s nothing you can do to stop it. Quit lying to people.
— Kevin Swango (@SwangoKevin) March 15, 2019
Oh stop. I have NEVER met a single LBGTQ who was discriminated against for his sexuality. In fact I work in a business where we employ many. Your spiel is identity politics that endeavors to create tge bogus belief that ALL LBGTQ are victims. You are lying again.
— The Future is Red (not blue) (@Quin4Trump) March 14, 2019
You don’t fight for people @KamalaHarris stop lying. You fight to Control people thru big government, and ILLEGALS to come into this country freely against our laws so they can vote. You are an pathetic excuse for someone in Congress
— tim(independent, American Indian) (@exdemtim) March 10, 2019
Harris should also consider cutting it out with the dirty tricks …
(Not to mention the fake smiles!)
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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