Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says the Right is making a mistake with its current line of political attacks against Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.

Ramaswamy, who is this week’s guest on The Ben Shapiro Show’s “Sunday Special,” argued that it would be wise to nix attacks on Harris’ personal politics, and instead go after the Democrat system.

“We’re not running against a candidate, we’re running against a system,” Ramaswamy told Shapiro.

“They literally just photoshopped the presidential candidate,” Shapiro noted. “I mean, they took the president, they made sure that no one challenged him the whole way through. He then was put in place as the nominee, and then as soon as he had a bad debate, they ousted him in favor of Kamala Harris.”

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Harris, without a single primary vote, became the effective Democrat nominee a short 48 hours after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. Ramaswamy suggested the debate that was the catalyst for Biden’s ouster was scheduled earlier than usual to give Democrats the “option” to switch out Biden if they needed to.

“And the point that you’ve made is that it would be a mistake to try and delve into Kamala Harris’ personal philosophy, because this isn’t about that,” Shapiro said to Ramaswamy.

“I do think that’s a trap we risk falling into right now,” Ramaswamy agreed. “I don’t think that the right attack against Kamala Harris is that she’s a communist or a Marxist.”

Ramaswamy noted of Harris’ far-Left track record, but added that calling Harris an “ideologue” in some ways “gives her too much credit.”

“I don’t think she actually is,” he said. “And if you level a critique that misses the point by half, I don’t think it lands on the public in the same way, because her policies are now shifted. She’s now running as some sort of faux centrist, selectively embracing free market policies, even though she doesn’t know, at times, even what they may be.”

“I think it misses the point to call her a socialist or Marxist,” Ramaswamy emphasized. “I think she is another cog in a machine. We’re not running against a candidate, we’re running against a system.”

Harris has already benefited from the Right going after Biden personally, instead of broadening out their attacks to the Democrat machine, the former candidate argued.

“It’s actually legitimized Kamala Harris,” he said. “It created a dynamic where whoever was going to rescue the Democrats and independents in this country from Joe Biden — it’s the feeling that a tortured prisoner has towards their hero who releases them from captivity, whoever it is, you’re going to love that and fall in love with that person.”

“Kamala Harris benefited from that as opposed to really offering an indictment of the Democratic machine, and not even the Democratic machine, but the deeper managerial class in our country,” Ramaswamy said. “That would have been, I think, a more spot-on criticism.”

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) repeatedly refused to answer questions during an interview over the weekend about why he and Vice President Kamala Harris have flip-flopped on the issue of fracking.

Fetterman struggled to dodge the questions that he faced during a Sunday interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” with Kristen Welker ahead of November’s elections.

“Vice President Harris, as you know, once supported a ban on fracking when she was running for president in 2020,” Welker said. “She even sued the Obama administration to prevent fracking off California’s coast. Now, she says she will not ban the practice as President.”

“Why should voters trust that that is really what the Vice President believes?” Welker asked.

Fetterman responded: “So strange why we just keep talking about fracking. Now, back in 2020 I said that that might be an issue, but it’s not going to be a defining issue. And now, in 2024 we’re still trying to talk about fracking. And now the other side, they’re talking about eating cats, and geese, and dogs, and saying absurd things, and talking about how, if Trump doesn’t win he said that, you know, you’d have to blame the Jews on that. And just absurd things. Now, like, having a serious policy conversation when the other side is just absolutely on fire. And here’s where we are, and here we are also, that it’s going to be very close in Pennsylvania, and it’s not going to be defined by fracking.”

Welker then highlighted some of Fetterman’s past anti-fracking remarks in 2016 and 2018 when he called it a “stain” on the state and said that he did not support it at all.

“But then in 2022, you said you absolutely support fracking,” she said. “Senator, what exactly do you like about fracking now?”

Fetterman responded: “It’s strange for some weird ‘gotcha,’ kind of taking quotes out of context. And you know, here I am now, I’m a United States Senator, and I won by five points, a record margin back in ’22. And again, it might be an issue in fracking. And I fully support fracking. So does the Vice President Harris. And now if you want to have a serious conversation about policy, then I would challenge Trump and Vance to have one, other than talking about eating pets.”

Welker again pressed Fetterman about why he flipped on the issue to which he only responded: “Uh-oh. ‘They’re eating dogs, they’re eating cats.’ You know, again, so okay. Yes, any more on fracking? I think –”

WATCH:

Fetterman is a top Harris surrogate in Pennsylvania and he was asked 3 TIMES why he’s made the same shift on fracking that Harris has.

And 3 times he REFUSED to answer.

Harris won’t answer and her surrogates won’t answer because they’re lying.pic.twitter.com/ge7VuRxUHU

— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) September 22, 2024