If you’re wondering why Kamala Harris is beating expectations, a new poll might explain it.

According to a poll by McLaughlin and Associates, most Americans have no idea what the vice president stands for. (And her campaign team is certainly in no hurry to tell them.) It’s hard to believe, but “vast majorities” of registered Democrats and independents who voted for Joe Biden four years ago “remain largely in the dark about many of the controversial and radical positions Harris has taken,” the researchers explain.

And the left is more than happy to ride this ignorance all the way to the White House.

A full 71 percent had no idea that Harris wants to defund the police; 73 percent didn’t know that she is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal; and another 81 percent had no idea that the former California attorney general wanted to abolish private health insurance. Just as many had no idea that she wants to abolish ICE (77 percent), grant death row inmates the right to vote (86 percent) or decriminalize illegal immigration (74 percent).

The unfortunate “most liberal senator” label that Harris received from GovTrack in 2019 (a label that the left has tried hard to eradicate) was news to three-quarters of her own party.

When asked where respondents got most of their information, they most frequently said they used radio or cable television—both of which seem to cover Harris’ tracks very well.

Voters should know where Kamala Harris stands, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Saturday on “This Week on the Hill,” “because she has always stood there.”

Every time the vice president abandons her unpopular positions, “the media calls it just back and forth,” Johnson said, shaking his head. “It’s worse than that. They are blatantly lying to the American people.”

In fact, Johnson reminded people, Harris “even said in the CNN interview … that she stands by her old positions that she held when she ran for president in 2019 and that she has held throughout her adult life. That position is very clear. She has made it clear many times on tape and on video that she supports banning fracking and is against the oil and gas industry and the energy industry. She was in favor of allowing illegal immigrants into the country without any legal barriers. She wanted to decriminalize illegal border crossings. She said the border wall was a ridiculous waste of money and un-American and all that. And now she’s trying to pretend she never said those things. We have the tape,” the spokeswoman insisted.

Ultimately, he stressed, “this election is about fact or fantasy. It’s about balance sheets rather than rhetoric. There’s too much at stake right now,” Johnson argued, “and I think the American people will see through this ruse immediately. They’re counting on the American people to be unintelligent, but they’re not.” They understand the importance of who controls the White House and Congress.

And frankly, the federal elections are just a small piece of the larger puzzle. A lot of the good conservative policies we see around the country are coming from the local and state level, where issues like parental rights, girls’ sports, gender ideology and abortion are really being debated. In these swing states, Perkins said, “Democrats are trying to dial back their really left-wing, radical ideas because they know the American people aren’t ready.”

Johnson was able to confirm this after visiting 198 cities during this campaign – and the number is growing. His goal as party leader was to put forward men and women who would fight for the basic values ​​that are important to every American.

“We have been very selective in recruiting candidates this election cycle,” he stressed, “and we have recruited some exceptional candidates. You mentioned Ohio and North Carolina, two perfect examples. Derek Merrin is running in Ohio’s ninth district… He was the runner-up for Speaker of the House in the Ohio legislature… He can flip that seat. It’s been held by a Democrat, Marcy Kaptur, for 41 years, and it’s going to go red in November.”

In North Carolina, the spokesman believes that Republicans can gain up to four seats through redistricting. “But one of the districts that everyone is paying attention to is that of Lori Buckhout, an extraordinary candidate – a retired Army colonel and a devoted wife and mother.”

As grueling as the weeks have been – “As of this afternoon, I have campaigned in 39 states” – Johnson knows how crucial November is for a nation hanging by a thread under this administration.

“This is a contrast election,” he reiterated. “We need to make sure that our friends and neighbors and the people in church and synagogue – all within your sphere of influence – are well informed. This time you cannot make an emotional decision. You must make a decision based on policy, not personality. … And this is where the truth must come out.”

When asked what Bible-believing Christians should pray for in the run-up to the November election, the Speaker of the House was thoughtful. “I think we should pray for God’s grace on our country,” he said, sounding quite serious. “Sometimes we get the government we deserve, and we have to pray that that doesn’t happen – that he gives us a second chance. And I believe he will,” Johnson concluded. “… We have to preserve this republic.”