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Kamala Harris s Pennsylvania Catholic Problem – WSJ

By Thomas A. Smith

Less than four weeks from the election, Michigan s Democratic governor made an in-kind contribution to Donald Trump s campaign. Gretchen Whitmer appeared last week in a video featuring her placing a Dorito chip on the tongue of a kneeling social-media influencer. After Michigan s bishops denounced the clip as specifically imitating the posture and gestures of Catholics receiving the Holy Eucharist, Ms. Whitmer apologized.

The kicker: She was wearing a Harris-Walz campaign hat in the video.

The swing-state governor says she had no idea people might find the post offensive, which speaks to how out of touch Democratic elites are. That cluelessness may prove costly in an election in which Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are separated by less than half a point in the RealClearPolitics polling average for the seven battleground states. In the most important of these Pennsylvania the latest RCP average shows Mr. Trump leads 48.3% to 47.9%. Ms. Harris s problem is that exit polls from 2020 show 30% of the state s voters are Catholic.

via www.wsj.com

I don’t believe Gov. Whitmer didn’t know that she was mocking Holy Communion. But who knows what a politician knows.

William McGurn.