As we previously reported, while it’s a good thing that Kamala Harris is back in Washington, D.C. after embarrassing the United States on a world stage during her recent overseas tour, unfortunately, she’s continuing to make a mockery of the office of the Vice President with the flubs and disjointed statements still freely flowing.
During her trip, political pundits and even some Democrats like former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard speculated that the real reason President Biden sent her to Europe was not so much because he believed she could get the job done but to give her the chance to beef up her non-existent “foreign policy creds” ahead of her eventual presidential run by allowing for some photo ops and chances to Click here knowledgeable next to presidents of other countries (though, as we also pointed out, that didn’t go well, either).
In any event, now that she’s back home and now that the coronavirus pandemic appears to be waning, reports are swirling as to how the White House plans to utilize Harris ahead of the 2022 midterms – by sending her out on road trips and turning her into Biden’s “road warrior” in an effort to help sell his failed agenda:
Sources say that Harris will spend more time traveling the country to highlight the achievements of the administration as COVID-19-related cases are declining.
Vice President will talk about infrastructure, broadband access expansion, and other issues on the trip.
Harris will travel to Louisiana on Friday, and there will likely be another domestic trip next week, according to sources familiar with the vice president’s schedule.
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According to sources, vice president Will also hold larger events at White House and at other places around the country.
One Democrat strategist told The Hill that Harris would be “deployed” to “communities and geographies where the vice president is maybe even more resonant and popular than any other member of the administration,” which is code for black communities, where Joe Biden has struggled to maintain support over the last 14 months.
It’s hard to see where even this calculated strategy would work, as black Democrat voters (and female Democrat voters) rejected Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in 2019, with her support cratering among those key voting blocs during that summer after her racially-tinged attacks on Biden came across as disingenuous and politically opportunistic. And even now, she’s a drag on Biden, with her ratings in similar territory to his.
Harris is also a bit out of touch with authenticity and relatability, which comes through in Harris’s performance. Big way when she’s face to face with voters, including the ones who look like her.
I dunno, maybe this shores up a couple of percentage points among the Democratic faithful but I don’t see it as an overall effective tactic to get voters energized and enthused about voting for Democrats in the fall elections. Joe Biden has proven himself to be seriously lackluster in that department, and Harris – with her repeated policy failures and painful gaffes and cackling over the last year – is not an effective messenger herself.
This could actually have the unexpected effect of motivating Republican and Independent voters, who are very dissatisfied about this White House, to vote.
That said, I realize the White House has to use her in some capacity and can’t just keep her locked in the basement, but just going off of what most polls indicate, realistically speaking out of the limelight might just be exactly where she really belongs as far as Democrats are concerned.
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