GovTrack Deletes Kamala Harris’ ‘Most Liberal’ Rating Citing its ‘Unreliability’


The Trump campaign is seizing Vice President Kamala Harris’s “most liberal senator” rating from GovTrack, which has proved impactful.

This impact wasn’t only felt by independent American voters but also by learning more about the Democratic vice president who was handed the presumptive 2024 Democrat presidential nominee crown despite never competing in the primaries. However, GovTrack has now done a bait and switch on the American people by removing the ranking that exposed Harris as the most liberal senator.

“We retracted the legislator rankings that we published for 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019, including a ranking of then-Senator Kamala Harris as the most liberal senator in 2019,” wrote GovTrack.us in what conservatives consider a disingenuous mea culpa, now calling out their ratings own “unreliability.”

“A newer ranking that we published in 2021 says she was the leftmost Democrat senator. Catch the difference? Right-wing media didn’t like it. It’s a difference without distinction.” 

The fact the organization has taken its shot at “right-wing media” shows bipartisan bias for the alleged “nonpartisan” GovTrack. However, there are also some undertones of just marching for the Democratic Party overlord’s chosen candidate.

According to LinkedIn, GovTrack founder and retraction writer Joshua Tauberer is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. President Joe Biden has come under fire for his alliance with that university, including reportedly storing classified documents there.

Notably, when VP Harris was called out by GovTrack in 2019, it was as an alleged moderate. Then-former Vice President Joe Biden was going to be installed a few states into the 2020 Democratic primary as the leading candidate (in South Carolina, because he didn’t meet the deadlines for New Hampshire or Iowa). This made Harris appear as a radical leftist and was potentially helpful to Joe Biden’s appeal to voters for the nomination, noted conservatives then.

However, primary voters don’t count now, lament conservatives, and even GovTrack admits its legislator rankings shouldn’t count either.

It’s an admission made with the far-left Washington Post in 2020 after Harris was Biden’s running mate.

With Joe Biden having reportedly been forced off the ticket by a group that included former President Barack Obama, Kamala Harris was handed the baton to carry prior to the Democratic National Convention in August. Now, Harris’ “most liberal senator” rating looks like it could harm the chances of the Democratic Party against GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Barack Obama has long hailed VP Harris as a political heavy-hitter

Obama has long hailed Harris publicly as a political heavy hitter, possibly helping her ascend to be Joe Biden’s running mate after she had some of the most significant Democratic primary debate moments—including assailing the now-president on his past support for segregation-era busing.

Former President Obama has a lengthy history of supporting the Democrats’ preferred presidential candidate. In 2016, Obama asked Biden to step aside for Hillary Clinton—a move that, according to reports, still irritates Biden to this day. Clinton was a formidable primary opponent against Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary cycle.

The Trump campaign exposed VP Harris and her past interviews on the discomforting moment when Harris was presented with the GovTrack “most liberal senator” rating.

Its line of attack had GovTrack quickly responding and subsequently calling out the conservative media that noticed the change.

“A lot of complaints about erasing history (I doubt they complained when Trump deleted tweets),” wrote Tauberer, taking a shot at Donald Trump, who was banned on X (Twitter) before it was taken over by Elon Musk. “Many emails and tweets have asked us to restore the statistic because our methodology was correct and the information important for voters to know while at the same time letting us know that we have lost all of our credibility.” 

“Well, both can’t really be true, can they? Trump himself continues to cite our analysis (both the retracted one and the one we still have up). For them, it is all obviously about whether it’s convenient, not whether it’s correct. Right-wing media ran articles with ominous headlines in passive voice like ‘suddenly disappears’ on Fox News. (They emailed me for comment, I answered all of their questions, and they still pass it off as some invisible hand at work. It was my hand, folks.)” continued Tauberer.

“Other outlets ran stories without asking us for comment. Sean Hannity’s team wrote, ‘Is anyone buying this?’ Others in the far-right media have painted this as a Soviet-style partisan censorship conspiracy. Mmmhmm,” said Tauberer.

But still, the changes’ timing leaves questions unanswered.