'Embarrassing Copy-Paste Plagues Harris’s Launch of Policy Platform'

'Kamala Harris seems to have borrowed her policies entirely from Joe
Biden.'

<https://newrepublic.com/post/185719/kamala-harris-policy-platform-copy-paste-biden-metadata>

'Shortly after Kamala Harris released her policy agenda on Sunday
evening, users on X spotted something in the metadata: Much of the
language appears to have been lifted from Joe Biden’s campaign website.

On Sunday night, X user Corinne Green pointed out that the issues
section of Harris’s website contained metadata with language urging
voters to reelect Joe Biden. This language was visible when links to the
campaign site were shared, and in the website’s description on Google
searches.

Twitter screenshot Corinne Green @gaynarcan:
they copied and pasted the policy page code from biden's website and
couldn't be assed to change it. "join our campaign to re-elect joe biden
today!"

(screenshots of Kamala Harris's website preview)
Twitter screenshot Corinne Green @gaynarcan:
A NEW WAY FORWARD and it's literally just biden's exact shit you cannot
make this up lol

(screenshot of metadata)
Sometime late on Sunday night or early Monday morning, the website’s
metadata appears to have been changed, with the language asking for
Biden to be reelected having been removed.

Twitter screenshot Corinne Green @gaynarcan:
we did it reddit. harris removed the exhortation to re-elect joe biden
from her policy platform

(screenshot of metadata)
All of this creates the impression that at least some of the Harris
campaign’s policy language was copied and pasted from Biden’s documents.
That would be an embarrassing miscue from the Harris campaign, which
partly came into being because of a perception that a refresh was needed
to garner enthusiasm in the Democratic Party. It doesn’t help that the
section on her website about her Israel-Palestine policy seems very
similar to what Biden’s campaign was saying.

Twitter screenshot Prem Thakker @prem_thakker:
The new policy page for the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign, on Israel &
Palestine:

With screenshot: Vice President Harris will never hesitate to take
whatever action is necessary to protect U.S. forces and interests from
Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups. Vice President Harris will always
stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself and she will always ensure
Israel has the ability to defend itself. She and President Biden are
working to end the war in Gaza, such that Israel is secure, the hostages
are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can
realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and
self-determination. She and President Biden are working around the clock
to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done.
Harris’s policy platform should be giving the public a view of the
detailed plans her administration hopes to implement if she and Tim Walz
win in November. The last thing her campaign needs is an embarrassing
misstep, and while this one is relatively small, she’ll need to reassure
voters on the fence that her campaign isn’t a retread of Biden’s with a
new face.