Yet Another Big Wheel Falls off the Kamala Express – Opinion

Vice President Kamala Harris’s first year in office has been plagued with one wave of bad press after another, a pretty astonishing factoid when you consider how some in the mainstream media were already paving the way for her ascension to the Oval Office well before she was sworn in as Joe Biden’s second in command.

Harris, the central figure of all this was responsible for most of it.

CNN reported on Biden staffers growing more frustrated with Harris. A rift has been reported between Harris and President Biden, which appears to be increasing. Ashley Etienne, the comms director of Harris’s office, quit last month. Biden was also seen to be a snub at the D.C. soup pan last week when they were helping with preparations for Thanksgiving.

There are now rumors that Biden could replace Harris on the 2024 ticket, as well as talk about a potential SCOTUS nominating process if Harris is removed.

According to five officials with knowledge of the situation, Symone Sanders is the chief spokesperson and senior advisor for Vice President Kamala Harir and will be leaving the White House by the end the year.

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An official in the vice president’s office confirmed the departure and said the president and vice president have “known for a while.” The official added that Sanders had worked for President Joe Biden for nearly three years.

In a note to staff Wednesday night, Sanders confirmed the exit, writing, “I’m so grateful to the VP for her vote of confidence from the very beginning and the opportunity to see what can be unburdened by what has been. I’m grateful for [Harris chief of staff] Tina [Flournoy]She is a leader and has great confidence. Each day I arrived at the White House knowing that our efforts had made an immediate difference to Americans. I am immensely grateful and will miss working for her and with all of you.”

Though Sanders seemed to suggest in her note that she was leaving on good terms, like Etienne’s resignation last month the timing is incredibly intriguing (and convenient) considering Harris’s cratering poll numbers and the numerous reports of infighting in the VP’s office and prior reports from former staffers on how hard Harris allegedly was to work for. According to reports, her turnover during the failed 2020 presidential campaign was very high.

Back in August as her woes hit fever pitch, Harris brought in crisis communications expert Lorraine Voles, who per Politico once served “as a strategist and adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2006 Senate reelection race and 2008 presidential bid.” A month later, it was clear That not even thatIt was all going smoothly.

Evidently, the situation has not changed much since. Harris was seen in New Jersey at a bakery sampling sweet treats with Sen. Cory Booker (D.N.J.), at the same moment DHS Sec. Mayorkas and other senior members of the administration were holding critical high-level talks with Mexico’s president about the border crisis, of which Harris was made the point person by Biden back in March.

Considering how things are going so far, it’s highly likely these two resignations from VP Harris’ team won’t be the last in the coming weeks. If things don’t pick up and morale doesn’t improve, expect more to head for the exits sooner rather than later because let’s face it, no one wants to be on a train that has skipped wildly off the tracks, especially when that train is in the form of the Harris Express.

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