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In a surprising twist, GovTrack, a popular site for monitoring government activities, recently deleted a page that ranked Vice President Kamala Harris as the most liberal senator among all 100 U.S. Senators. This move has sparked outrage on social media. The deletion was initially reported by the social media account @EndWokeness, which posted a screenshot with the caption, “BREAKING: GovTrack just DELETED their 2019 page that ranked Kamala Harris as THE MOST LIBERAL of all 100 Senators. It would be a shame if we made it viral.”
The news quickly gained traction. @GuntherEagleman commented, “The media coverup is in full effect!” while @JoeyMannarinoUS added, “They’re ALL in the tank for her. Wow.” Another user, @TheEXECUTlONER, expressed more extreme views, stating, “She’s an inciter. Kamala Harris should be impeached as well. She will destroy America.” Many interpreted the deletion as an attempt to alter the public perception of Harris.
@Will_Tanner_1 sarcastically remarked, “We aim to inform the voters by hiding critical info from them.” @RedWave_Press suggested a broader conspiracy, saying, “Everyone is beginning to cover for Kamala Harris. The media is trying to rig the election in her favor.” Meanwhile, @Sassafrass_84 dramatically summarized the situation: “An assassination attempt, a coup, and a cover-up. Did not see this on my bingo card for the month of July.”
The context surrounding this deletion is significant. GovTrack confirmed to Fox News Digital that they had removed the 2019 web page ranking Harris as that year’s “most liberal” senator sometime within the last two weeks. The organization’s founder, Joshua Tauberer, explained that the removal was due to a policy change made “several years ago” to end single-year ratings of lawmakers in favor of ratings based on full Congressional sessions.
Tauberer stated, “We determined that the limited data available in a single year was not sufficient to create a reliable portrait of the activity of legislators, particularly given the ebbs and flows of the legislative calendar, and therefore did not serve as a useful tool to our users and the American public.” The timing of this deletion has raised eyebrows, as it coincided with significant political developments. President Joe Biden recently announced he was pausing his campaign and endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.
Harris subsequently claimed she had gathered enough delegates to win the nomination at the next Democratic National Convention. GovTrack’s 2019 analysis showed that Harris joined bipartisan legislation “the least often compared to Senate Democrats.” During the 2020 election campaign, this ranking was frequently cited, especially by the Trump campaign, to counter the portrayal of Harris as a “pragmatic moderate.”
Now that Harris is pursuing the Democratic nomination, her media supporters appear to be attempting to reshape her image. For instance, Axios recently released an article arguing that it is unjust to blame illegal immigration on Harris, contradicting its previous reporting that referred to her as a “border czar.”
