It's interview time for Kamala Harris. Here's 20 Questions we'd like to see asked.

Because she wants to be president of the United States. Because Americans deserve answers. Because "JOY" as a strategy is not enough.

Through no fault of Kamala Harris, the American public didn’t get to see her lay out her proposals and policy stances over a traditional prolonged primary period where they would be challenged by Democratic primary opponents and the media.  We didn’t get to see her compete and prove herself, to fight for endorsements, to get the proverbial bumps and bruises along the way.  She essentially had the nomination handed to her late in the game as a matter of political convenience  Tonight she’s going to participate in her first sit down interview with a member of the mainstream press.  Here’s some questions we’d like to see asked.

1) During the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, you wanted to eliminate private insurance, you stated the you unquestionably for banning fracking, you stated that you yourself are “woke” and were for “equity”.  You also expressed support for helping pay the bail for protestors in Minnesota in the wake of the George Floyd protests.  Some of these protestors were violent and destroyed property.  Now you’ve changed your position on all of these issues.  What caused you to change your position on each of these matters?  Why should the American public trust your politics?

2) Many observers point to four countries that pose a significant potential security threat to the United States.  Russia, having invaded Ukraine, and serves a threat to Eastern Europe.  China, which has become increasingly belligerent with Taiwan and other southeast Asian countries.  North Korea, a nuclear armed state with highly unstable leader.  And Iran, a nuclear wannabe state which uses proxies to attack Israel and tries to destabilize other Middle Eastern countries.  At times it seems these countries work together to cause chaos and destabilization.  What would be the major factors that would affect the prioritizing of the focus and strategies within a Harris administration?  What would a Harris Doctrine look like?

3) You propose to increase the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%.  How do you respond to the criticism that rate increase will decrease corporate balance sheets, including cash flow?  Have you examined how it would affect corporate reinvestment strategies which could, in turn, affect hiring and wage increases? Could this tax raise contribute to ongoing inflation?  How will individual investors react?

4) In the Biden administration, you were tasked with examining the “root causes” of mass emigration to America’s borders.  In this capacity, you met with foreign leaders to investigate the conditions within these countries that not only caused people to leave, but to chose to come to the United States.  What countries did you travel to and whom did you meet with?  What, specifically, did you learn from this?  What recommendations did you make to the Biden administration?  Were they implemented?  If so, what impact did they have?  And, from what you learned, what would you implement as president to further deal with these issues?

5) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of many conversations about the future.  Its potential to do good is immense, as is its potential to do great harm.  This is no small issue.  How would a Harris administration approach this in working with AI companies, industry groups, and professional  fields and individuals who will be affected?  How would your administration work with other countries and  with international organizations?  Who within the AI industry has your ear?

6) Early on in your campaign, you stated that you wanted to make a huge effort to fight against what you call price gouging.  Can you give specific examples with evidence of actual price gouging going on within industries?  How would you set up a governmental effort to confront this?  Would it be a separate agency?  Within DOJ?  Within Commerce?  What standards would you create to initiate investigations?  What would the sanctions look like?

7) Abortion is a hot topic as always.  Since Dobbs, it’s taken a different form.  Roe is gone.  Abortion is now mostly a state issue and not federal.  What steps will you take if any to combat the most restrictive state abortion laws?  Do you see a federal role in any of this?  How will you work with a divided Congress on this issue?

8) As of 2021, 41% of children born in America are born outside of marriage.  In 1990, it was 28%.  Children growing up in single mother households are 5 times likely to grow up in poverty.  For single father household, that rate is 3 times.  While concepts such as affordable daycare can help, that’s not directly addressing how the problem has grown and taken root.  In your position as president, where you are both a role model and have an opportunity to use the bully pulpit, what will you do to help decrease this growing stat and have our culture embrace the two-parent family?

9) Let’s stick with children.  Boys are undergoing a crisis in America as they are significantly falling behind on many measurements.  This had led to growing levels of anxiety, loneliness, and depression.  As these boys grow into young men, it could lead to increased levels of violence, suicide, and social disengagement.  How would you help our culture address these problems?

10) How would you balance the effects of policies you hope to implement such as the Green New Deal with its impact on the job market and wages?  How would you address the problem of suppressed wages from the influx of undocumented labor?

11) We now realize that the Biden Administration and governmental agencies pressured social media companies to remove or reduce the visibility of content that later turned out to be true (the Hunter Biden laptop story) or likely true (the lab leak theory).  That’s a form of de facto censorship.  How would you prevent actual political interference with the clear motive to develop and/or maintain a political narrative?  This is important because your vice president nominee said that there is no free speech for what he called “disinformation”. 

12) Political violence has become more commonplace within the past decade.  An incursion into the US Capitol, attempted assassinations, protests that turned into riots.  In fact, not only has it become more common, at times it’s become expected, accepted, and even justified.  Through the stature of your position, what would you do to heal wounds and what would you do to bring this country closer together?

13) The rate of turnover in your vice presidential office was 92%, with some saying that it was an abusive atmosphere.  Given the importance of having a sense of stability and consistency in the highest office in the land, if you win the presidency how would you alter your managerial style and what qualifications would you seek out in a Chief of Staff.

14) In 2018, when you were in the US Senate, you interrogated Brian Buescher, a Trump administration federal judicial nominee about his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization with two million members worldwide, an organization that you described as being “limited to men”.  You asked him if he was aware that the organization, which often does significant charity work, was both pro-life and against gay marriage back when he joined it twenty-five years earlier when he was 18.  Given those two stances are part of basic Catholic doctrine, do you think Catholics nominees who practice their faith should be questioned about that faith and their religious affiliations?

15) Transgenderism in children has seen a huge increase over the past decade.  Governments in the UK and in Sweden have begun to push back on what’s known as “gender affirming care” for minors, calling into question both the mental and emotional states of children who believe they are trans and the long term complications for treatments and surgeries.  Here in the US, some states are taking action against parents who object to some of these treatments on their own children.  What rights do you think parents have in such circumstances and what role should the government have here as it relates to dealing with these parents?

16) Many Americans feels as if the American Dream is slipping away.  You now talk of the “Opportunity Economy”  What does that mean and what would you do to specifically increase tangible opportunities for working Americans?

17) There’s been about a 1400% increase in the amount of deaths by fentanyl overdoses over the past ten years.  Each year it’s increasing.  The problems here are multi-faceted with regard to supply and demand, health care costs, prevention, rehab, and the horrendous impact it has on individuals and families.  How would a Harris Administration address this comprehensively?

18) Vladimir Putin has shown no respect for international boundaries and the rule of law.  He invades countries at will and he’s caused tens of thousands of deaths in Ukraine.  He has his opponents assassinated.  And while the Biden Administration effectively put together a strong coalition against Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine, Putin remains steadfast.  How would address this threat via your administration and through NATO?

19) About 40,000 Palestinians have lost their lives due to Israel’s response post October 7.  Many of those dead are women and children.  International aid organzations are saying that there are family-like conditions there on the ground.  Yet Hamas and its leadership have shown no willingness end  this and return the hostages that were taken during the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history, an the event that caused the greatest loss of Jewish life since World War II.  In fact, Hamas’ leader, Yahya Sinwar, views these deaths as a strategic tool to turn the world against Israel.  Hezbollah is now sending missiles into Israel and Iran is threatening war.  What should the US do to confront Israel’s aggressors?   What would you want to see Israel do?  Would you support them if they were provoked into getting into a conflict with Hezbollah or a war with Iran?  How would your government work with Israel and aid organizations to help the Palestinian people?

20) It's been said that China is the United States’ greatest adversary politically, economically, and militarily.  What do you see as the most pressing issues here with regard economic growth and stability, our international relations overall, and our national security?