In a desperate bid for votes that Kamala Harris should already have secured, the vice president is pandering to a surprising audience: Black men.

Less than three weeks before the election, Harris now claims that if she's elected president, she'll throw the nation's purse wide open for this select group. How kind, and not at all manipulative and indulgent.

On Monday, Harris launched her "Opportunity Agenda for Black Men." The plan includes handing out 1 million "fully forgivable" loans of up to $20,000 for Black entrepreneurs and "others." The proposal also promises to protect cryptocurrency investments and to legalize recreational marijuana.

Harris' initiative is the epitome of identity politics. It also demonstrates that her campaign is weak among a voting bloc that for decades has overwhelmingly supported Democratic candidates. That's a bad sign this close to the election.

On top of that, her Opportunity Agenda for Black Men is a set of poor ideas that doesn't provide real hope for people in need.

All politicians pander to voting blocs to a degree. In 2016, for example, Donald Trump mangled a Bible verse while speaking at Liberty University as he wooed evangelical voters.

But unveiling an initiative that would cost tens of billions of dollars for a specific audience just weeks before the election takes pandering to a........

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