The Kamala Problem

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I was conducting an internet search for something when I serendipitously locked into a series of interesting past articles having to do with Kamala Harris- and they all had a common theme: specifically, Kamala Harris is a problem.

Kamala Harris one year: Where did it go wrong for her?

Kamala Harris assumed office in historic fashion, becoming the first woman to serve “a heartbeat away from the presidency”.

But her first year as vice-president has been far from a smooth ride.

Since taking office, Ms Harris has been tasked with two high-profile assignments. The first is to address the root causes of undocumented migration into the US from Central American countries.

She has also been tasked with enacting national voting reform.

Now note how what’s happening today has echoes from the past

Ms Harris’ presidential campaign began with a bang. Her kick-off rally in January 2019 drew tens of thousands of supporters to Oakland, California. She rocketed to near the top of polls after performing strongly in the first primary debate later that June.

Then she came crashing back down to earth, beset by staff upheaval, underwhelming media interviews and subsequent debates, and no clear message or constituency in the party.

In other words, all the problems Ms Harris has faced during her first year as vice-president also surfaced during her presidential campaign.

THE KAMALA HARRIS PROBLEM

Ease and confidence have not been the prevailing themes of Harris’s vice presidency. Her first year on the job was defined by rhetorical blunders, staff turnover, political missteps, and a poor sense among even her allies of what, exactly, constituted her portfolio. Within months of taking office, President Joe Biden was forced to confront a public perception that Harris didn’t measure up; ultimately, the White House issued a statement insisting that Biden did, in fact, rely on his vice president as a governing partner. But Harris’s reputation has never quite recovered.

Opinion: How Joe Biden should solve the Kamala Harris Conundrum

President Biden’s main vulnerability in a reelection campaign may not be his age. It’s not his lagging approval ratings or the slowing economy, either.

No, the issue Democrats should be worried about now (and one at which Republicans have already started hammering) is succession, and I don’t mean Logan Roy’s.  It’s the uncomfortable question of whether voters can get their heads around Biden’s vice president as a potential president — a question that is probably more pressing for Biden, who would be 82 if he takes the oath for a second time, than it has been for any nominee since Franklin D. Roosevelt sought a fourth term.

That Democratic leaders did nothing to dissuade Biden from seeking a second term is, itself, a testament to how much Harris worries them. A lot of Democrats will tell you that, while they had doubts about renominating a man Biden’s age, they could see no one other than Harris who might take his place — a prospect sufficiently ominous as to unify the party.

 

With Biden In Mental Decline, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Kamala Harris?

Now, given that’s the case, just imagine Biden had an energetic, well-liked vice president out on the trail. Voters could at least tell themselves that if they vote for Biden and we have to confront the all-too-likely possibility Biden goes face down in a bowl of Chunky Monkey in the Oval and never wakes up, at least there’s a commanding presence in the wings waiting to step-up.

Instead, we have Kamala Harris, who seems to defy the laws of political physics by existing in two categories at the same time — she’s both actively disliked by voters and an almost complete nonentity when it comes to exerting any influence on policy or politics. I mean, what has she done of note as vice president? Anything at all? During his first year in office, Biden tasked her with overseeing diplomatic efforts allegedly aimed at stopping the mass influx of illegal immigrants across the southern border. How’s that going?

Let’s check the spin at CNN:

“Since being tasked with tackling root causes, Harris has only occasionally talked about the effort as the situation along the US-Mexico border became a political vulnerability for Biden. … A senior administration official recognized the attention on the US-Mexico border but maintained that Harris’ work is not intended to solve the immediate issues on the ground there.”

In other words, Kamala is trying to distance herself from her own responsibilities on an issue that is now voters’ number one concern. “Not intended to solve the immediate issues on the ground there”? What an awe-inspiring display of leadership.

 

Kamala Harris reveals she would ‘of course’ inform the American public if there was a ‘problem’ with Biden

Vice President Kamala Harris said she would tell the American people if there really was a problem with President Biden as voters remain overwhelmingly concerned about the president’s age heading into the 2024 election.

CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Harris if she would ever reveal to the American public if there was a problem with Biden. “Do you think in your role, that you’re in a position to do that?” he asked during an interview with Harris at The New York Times Dealbook Summit.

“Of course, if necessary, but there’s no need for that. I don’t, there is a political argument that is being made. That is not based on substance, and you’re asking me to hypothesize around what are my duties to the American people, as vice president of the United States, that are based on ethics and morals and the law. I will always follow those rules, but I am suggesting to you that it is important we not be seduced into one of the only arguments that that side of the aisle has right now.,” she said.

That is now a problem for her.

Democrats have a Kamala Harris problem

At a certain point, someone of substance within the Democratic Party is going to have to find the courage to say the quiet part out loud regarding Vice President Kamala Harris: Fewer and fewer Democrats want her on the 2024 ticket with Joe Biden or, most especially, as the presidential nominee should Biden drop out of the race.

Cue the outraged denials from the White House, the Democratic National Committee and various Democratic Party supporting organizations, websites and pundits. Except … I suspect they either all know it’s true or have all heard the same whispers.

I have spoken to multiple high-level Democrats, and not one of them wants Harris on the ticket. A sentiment that was touched upon just about a year ago in a piece in the Washington Post titled “Some Democrats are worried about Harris’s political prospects,” which outlined why Democratic strategists and party leaders were rightfully concerned about Harris’s “electability,” especially if Biden chose not to run and she became the Democratic nominee in 2024. A concern which has surely increased since then as the vice president continues to be mocked for various “word salad” answers to serious issues.

When Ron Klain admitted to me a year ago that the White House could have worked harder to elevate Kamala Harris’s profile, he didn’t know that the Democratic Party, and perhaps American democracy itself, would soon be riding on her readiness to be president. But perhaps he should have.

It was July 2023, and while interviewing President Joe Biden’s former chief of staff in his law office in downtown Washington, D.C., I’d asked if the administration had done enough to showcase Harris as a governing partner to the oldest president in history. Promoting one’s vice president is “always hard,” Klain, who was known to be an advocate of Harris’s, told me then. “Obviously, I wish, you know—you could always do more, and you should do more.”

Four months before the election, and one week after Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, Harris’s capacity to lead the Democratic Party and the free world has never been more relevant. And yet many Americans, after three years of the West Wing’s poor stewardship of Harris, are now looking at their vice president as if for the first time.

This is what is happening right now.

5 Reasons Kamala Harris Is the Weakest Candidate to Replace Biden | Opinion
  • First, it has been abundantly evident around the globe that being an incumbent is a difficult place to be in this political climate.
  • Second, the big relief for Democrats is that with Biden no longer the nominee, his age issue would disappear. But a Harris candidacy keeps the age issue very much alive: The question being pounded on by both Republicans and the press is how those in the White House in regular contact with Biden covered up the state of his mental acuity. There is simply no way for Harris to escape that issue.
  • Third, one of the two biggest issues in this campaign cycle will be immigration and the Biden record on it. And again, Harris here is a liability: She was given the assignment of solving the border issue, meaning she can’t escape the extremely broad perception of massive numbers of illegal immigrants gaining access to the country due to the Biden administration’s border policy.
  • Fourth, the notion that the narrative of “the prosecutor versus the criminal” somehow will inure to the benefit of the Harris candidacy is similarly hard to comprehend.  (more on this shortly)

  • Finally, the case against Donald Trump being president of the United States again is so overwhelmingly compelling, yet with President Biden’s diminished communication skills, that case has not been articulated well to date. Kamala Harris is very good with a teleprompter in front of her, or with scripted questions in a committee hearing. However, she is not a strong contemporaneous speaker able to crisply and clearly articulate the case against Donald Trump, taking advantage of all the earned media she will receive. It is extremely doubtful that she will develop the communications skill set necessary to overturn all the social media ridicule that she has gotten.

Then there’s the problem of her prosecutorial record

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harris is surfing a wave at the moment- a wave of relief that the Biden pretense dam has broken and someone a bit more youthful has taken the spotlight. She will have to answer a lot of questions regarding her covering up for Biden’s mental infirmities. Sooner or later, she will have to actually speak without the benefit of a teleprompter and that is when she is most gaffe prone. She is not a good impromptu speaker. I wonder whether the DNC will minimize her exposure to such an environment but attempts to do so will stand out like a bruise on Joe BIden’s face.

And the Trump campaign has to do its best to make her laugh.

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Our first DEI VP. Her record shows she is an incapable pantsuit. Sure she check boxes but none of the boxes reflected ability to do even minuscule work in any of her previous positions except when on her knees.

Rumors run rampant that it was jill who stuck her with the border tzar job. jill has never forgiven the attack camela dropped on Joe about him being a racist. jill was determined from the get go to diminish camela and she did.

Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden either set her up to fail by giving her important assignments or he provided her the opportunity of a lifetime to show the nation she can be the leader we need. Either way, she didn’t bother to grab the occasion and exploit it to either fulfill an obligation or give Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden a great big “F**K YOU” by succeeding.

If she actually performed that immigration task, where is the report? Where are the recommendations (aside from “Flush more taxpayer money down the corruption toilet”)? Obviously, there have been no positive RESULTS, but where at least are the lessons learned? By all appearances, she didn’t do a damned thing, which is par for the course of EVERY member of the Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden regime.