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| VP Kamala Harris AWOL . |
Kamala Harris exposes just how useless the Vice President’s office has become in the U.S. "It's so obvious she's in over her head," said after Vice President Kamala Harris stumbled answering a national security question and seemed to call "democracy" the biggest threat to the United States, on Monday's "John Bachman Now". I find it very hard to believe that millions saw her as a qualified candidate for VP. Honestly Tulsi Gabbard should have gotten the democratic nomination. I would have voted for her without question. The sudden disappearance of VP Kamala Harris is VARY interesting .I said the same thing about Mike Pence in a past blog post. . Whom I thought that Pence was running Trump from behind . (1)>>Kamala Harris is without question America's first Woman Vice President . Yes, this tests the American system in regards to gender equality . While most of the Democrats , even some feminists praise Biden's choice for Harris . Whereas "we" can put the puzzles together, was not of his liking her. (2)>> Remember how Kamala drilled Biden during the debate , but I think that Biden was giving into to pressure too pick her as his VP . ALL the credit should go to Speaker of the House CA Nancy Pelosi . The Pelosi connection to Harris is vary obvious . (2.1)>> Tax payer money flowed into the Harris campaign from California .It's more about a slant toward her nephew California Governor Gavin Newsom . Her political future is tied to how popular Biden is during his presidency. If Biden is popular, and people like him, then they will associate her with more of the same. If he's unpopular, nothing she could say or do would make her stand out. (3)>>At present she’s been like every other vice-President: largely forgettable. So, she’s been average. It’s fine for the country, but not so much for her political brand or hopes of being a future president. The polls show here in approval ratings like Biden blow the 30 % percentage .The narrative has turned against Harris, the first woman and the first Black to be vice-president. In the U.S., it is always about the narrative, the contemporary cant, the conventional wisdom — even when the cant is no longer contemporary and the wisdom is no longer conventional.Harris’s problems are real. A closely reported piece on CNN on Nov. 14, based on some 30 interviews with staff and insiders, described (4)>>“exasperation and dysfunction” in the vice-president’s circle. I think this is reversing cause and effect; people don't like her, for various reasons, and that is why she performed so poorly. She was getting dumpstered in her own state and would have certainly lost it by several places if she hadn't dropped out beforehand.Those reasons she did poorly are all still true. That is lower than her four predecessors in their first years. (5)>>It’s also lower than the approval rating for President Joe Biden, who sits at 38%, and former President Donald Trump as he was leaving office in January, when he was polling around 41%.There's certainly time to rehab her image, but she is starting from a deficit, and thus far seems to have gone down further rather than up. I've had my issues with her since the primaries. But putting all of that aside; she's terribly uncharismatic. She has the same charisma issues as Hillary Clinton, with none of the political allies to make up for it. Her laughter and deflection of questions make her incredibly unlikable on camera. Where I've been disappointed is in her political ability. She's shown a lot of the same difficulty navigating political situations that she did in the primary. Take the issue of her going to the border. Folks asked her about visiting the border. She gave a very reasonable answer that there isn't much value in visiting the border, but the media found a way to criticize it anyway. She ran ineffective damage control, then as it continued to be an issue, reversed course and went to visit the border, but now it looked like she was going just because she caved to pressure, not because it was actually a good policy move.Personally, (6)>>I think if the Democrats run her in 2024 (which they probably will) they are asking to get walloped.Running Harris in 2024 would be like begging for a repeat of the Trump/Clinton matchup. And we all know how that one ended for Democrats...
NOTES AND COMMENTS: (1)>>Kamala Harris is without question America's first Woman Vice President . While it's true that Harris is the first of the firsts you might assume . BUT Biden's choice for a person least experienced for the Vice Presidential job is staggering . Second if you think that Democrats had a better choice for the VP Job would have been Hillary Clinton. YES , HILLARY !!!. My personal choice for the first woman President would have been Tulsi Gabbard , but that is another story . I suspect that Biden did not pick Harris , nor did he like her . An am getting that he had some political pressure from the real de facto "President " of the US , Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi . Here are other bit's about[ curious] Harris as the first woman VP . It's how the race card was played out by the left media outlets . For months we heard was " The First Black Woman" , the first this, and that , as far as race . The media wanted the woke-ism on the lap of Harris while neglecting that she is part Jamaican, not black , may be mulatto . It's more a cultural than genetic issue. She's not a descendant of slavery like African-Americans. Harris is actually the descendant a Jamaican slave owner. More stranger , not even mention that she is part Indian [ NOT NATIVE AMERICAN , NO] Look, I know this is sarcasm, but her mother was from India [ south west part ] India, Bengaldesh and Pakistan are culturally and historically different enough from other asian countries to not group them under "Asian" when talking about the countries. The subcontinent makes more sense. Are they treating identity like some kind of schizo split personality thing?How is the "black" part bigger? Her father was a Jamaican immigrant and left a few years after she was born. She was raised by her Indian mother in Canada.Just because she pretends she is "black" doesn't make it the bigger part of her identity, to make it simple throw out the race card , just just call her "Jamaican American".(2)>> Remember how Kamala drilled Biden during the debate . NOW we talked about "race" , lets go further into the debate between Harris and Biden . The biggest bull shit in a US debate history I've seen is when Harris gave most personal attack of the Democratic debate was aimed not at President Donald Trump, but at former Vice President Joe Biden. California Sen. Kamala Harris called out Biden on the issue of race, saying the way he recently described his past working relationship with two segregationist lawmakers was “hurtful.”Harris also accused Biden of opposing busing, which Biden disputed. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day, and that little girl was me,” Harris said. (2.1)>> Tax payer money flowed into the Harris campaign from California .The Harris campaign was staring down some hard fundraising math: They had bragged about how well she’d done in the first quarter of the year after her launch, but aides could see she was falling short ahead of the quarterly fundraising deadline on June 30, which would come three days after the debate. She had raised $12 million, and their plan had targeted that number to be at least $15 million. It was also the practical consideration of political math: There was no path to the nomination for Harris—or for pretty much anyone, except for Sanders, and maybe Elizabeth Warren—except through a Biden collapse. Harris had to make a splash to get her political donations up. She had to take down Biden for any of that money to matter.(3)>>At present she’s been like every other vice-President: largely forgettable. I recall a few months ago reading an article describing how this could be a calculated move to make the notion of both a female VP and President more palatable. She has taken hard line stances and aggressively pushed opponents in the past, which conservative media tends to play off as her being "bitchy" or not having the temperament for politics. Supposing this is a real challenge for her to overcome, then it behooves her to not be too aggressive or progressive. Despite where her political ideologies may lie, until she's got a VP term under her belt and can use that as a jumping point for either herself or women politicians as a whole, it could be political suicide and set back women politicians if she comes off too strong. Kamala Harris Vice Presidency has flopped so bad. Biden essentially pulled the old school move of ending her political career by appointing her VP There’s no future for Khive. She won’t even get a MSNBC contract because she’s so uncharismatic 
. (4)>>“exasperation and dysfunction” in the vice-president’s circle. The rumors started circulating in July: Vice President Harris’s staff was wilting in a dysfunctional and frustrated office, burned out just a few months after her historic swearing-in and pondering exit strategies. A few days later, Harris hosted an all-staff party at her official residence, where most of her office bit into hamburgers and posted pictures of smiling, congenial co-workers on Twitter, pixelated counterpoints to the narrative of an office in shambles. Two people close to Harris' team said some individuals inside the vice president's office are frustrated with what they see as a dysfunctional operation that has been at times waylaid by internal conflict. Some of that ire is directed squarely at Harris' chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, those people said. But given his age and Harris being "a heartbeat away" from the presidency, it stands to reason that she might have hoped that she'd be more actively prepped for the Oval Office than previous vice presidents. But that clearly hasn't been the case in Year One of the Biden Administration.(5)>>It’s also lower than the approval rating for President Joe Biden. Because of Biden's age and current unpopularity, there's been lots of talk in Washington about the possibility that he won't run for reelection in 2024, though Biden himself has reportedly been assuring people he will. Kamala has only been VP for a year , but why do you think her numbers are so low compared to Biden’s? Biden has been in the media more (hes done a lot more negative things than her) while Kamala basically fades in the background. Do you think democrats should be worried about her approval numbers, in case she’s the nominee in 2024? Even among democrats, Harris scores a lot worse than Biden.Well, her approval rating is in the toilet, which isn't surprising since she comes across as phony and was the first Democratic presidential candidate to drop out of the race with similar stories of discord in her office. Biden hasn't helped by tasking her to solve unsolvable problems like the immigration issue, which Washington doesn't really want to ever confront.(6)>>I think if the Democrats run her in 2024. Joe Biden and the Democrats have many more priorities to deal with today than already thinking about the 2024 presidential election. If Joe Biden cannot get his agenda back on track, then there will be no point in talking about 2024, because the Republicans will be in an ideal position. Joe Biden's priority is therefore to keep his promises.She has the lowest approval rating of a VP in the history of America - an amazing 28 percent - she was behind Yang in her home state, and then she dropped out of the primaries polling single digits. The question is who will stop Kamala. I think the answer is Biden simply by running again. But in the unlikely event that he doesn't run, who would it be? The consensus seems to be Mayor Pete which I think is just insane. This poll shows his support among black voters right where it was in 2020. The argument has always been that once black voters get to know Pete, this would change. Well he's been one of the most visible members of the Biden administration and the support hasn't gone up at all. So who could challenge Harris... some names come to mind: Corey Booker, Eric Adams, and if, she were to full of an upset in Georgia, Stacey Abrams. Warnock too. Obviously they are all black but I could see also see someone like Osoff playing that RFK role and leading a mutli-racial colaition. Point is black voters are key. No one had Biden as their first choice. The support for him was very apathetic, as opposed to anti-Trump sentiment which was very motivating. He was just the only one palatable to enough. However, you make the first debate more like the second and Trump doesn't get covid? I don't think Biden wins.I'd say if Biden doesn't run, Harris is the most likely nominee. Say Biden runs in 2024 though (and I think he will). He has a good shot to be re-elected but even there, I think 2028 will be tough for Harris. So many people could run at that point
. (4)>>“exasperation and dysfunction” in the vice-president’s circle. The rumors started circulating in July: Vice President Harris’s staff was wilting in a dysfunctional and frustrated office, burned out just a few months after her historic swearing-in and pondering exit strategies. A few days later, Harris hosted an all-staff party at her official residence, where most of her office bit into hamburgers and posted pictures of smiling, congenial co-workers on Twitter, pixelated counterpoints to the narrative of an office in shambles. Two people close to Harris' team said some individuals inside the vice president's office are frustrated with what they see as a dysfunctional operation that has been at times waylaid by internal conflict. Some of that ire is directed squarely at Harris' chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, those people said. But given his age and Harris being "a heartbeat away" from the presidency, it stands to reason that she might have hoped that she'd be more actively prepped for the Oval Office than previous vice presidents. But that clearly hasn't been the case in Year One of the Biden Administration.(5)>>It’s also lower than the approval rating for President Joe Biden. Because of Biden's age and current unpopularity, there's been lots of talk in Washington about the possibility that he won't run for reelection in 2024, though Biden himself has reportedly been assuring people he will. Kamala has only been VP for a year , but why do you think her numbers are so low compared to Biden’s? Biden has been in the media more (hes done a lot more negative things than her) while Kamala basically fades in the background. Do you think democrats should be worried about her approval numbers, in case she’s the nominee in 2024? Even among democrats, Harris scores a lot worse than Biden.Well, her approval rating is in the toilet, which isn't surprising since she comes across as phony and was the first Democratic presidential candidate to drop out of the race with similar stories of discord in her office. Biden hasn't helped by tasking her to solve unsolvable problems like the immigration issue, which Washington doesn't really want to ever confront.(6)>>I think if the Democrats run her in 2024. Joe Biden and the Democrats have many more priorities to deal with today than already thinking about the 2024 presidential election. If Joe Biden cannot get his agenda back on track, then there will be no point in talking about 2024, because the Republicans will be in an ideal position. Joe Biden's priority is therefore to keep his promises.She has the lowest approval rating of a VP in the history of America - an amazing 28 percent - she was behind Yang in her home state, and then she dropped out of the primaries polling single digits. The question is who will stop Kamala. I think the answer is Biden simply by running again. But in the unlikely event that he doesn't run, who would it be? The consensus seems to be Mayor Pete which I think is just insane. This poll shows his support among black voters right where it was in 2020. The argument has always been that once black voters get to know Pete, this would change. Well he's been one of the most visible members of the Biden administration and the support hasn't gone up at all. So who could challenge Harris... some names come to mind: Corey Booker, Eric Adams, and if, she were to full of an upset in Georgia, Stacey Abrams. Warnock too. Obviously they are all black but I could see also see someone like Osoff playing that RFK role and leading a mutli-racial colaition. Point is black voters are key. No one had Biden as their first choice. The support for him was very apathetic, as opposed to anti-Trump sentiment which was very motivating. He was just the only one palatable to enough. However, you make the first debate more like the second and Trump doesn't get covid? I don't think Biden wins.I'd say if Biden doesn't run, Harris is the most likely nominee. Say Biden runs in 2024 though (and I think he will). He has a good shot to be re-elected but even there, I think 2028 will be tough for Harris. So many people could run at that point