Kamala Harris Doesn’t Even Know Her Own Stump Speech

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How Many Days Until the Next Election, Kamala?

Last Friday, Harris rolled her traveling circus act into Flint, Mich., to deliver her canned stump speech in a state she is fighting desperately to win. There, the Harris campaign discovered that things can go comically wrong for their candidate as a speaker even at a tightly scripted rally: The mere second that Harris no longer has a prearranged script to follow carefully, she’s at an utter loss for words.