When the Biden campaign picked Kamala Harris to run with an aging candidate, the idea was gender, skin color, age, prosecutorial past, and energy would raise interest in – and support for – the Democrat ticket. Looks like something may be … going wrong.
Ordinarily, a vice presidential candidate is high visibility, confidence-building, a hard-hitting surrogate for the leading light. Putting aside Biden’s dim beam, something is happening. Harris is nowhere to be seen. Have you noticed?
On the record, Harris is invisible. She showed up for just seven minutes in a “zoom” meeting last week focused on Minnesota, mentioning Trump could do more on COVID. See, e.g., https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/09/02/vp-nominee-harris-makes-virtual-minnesota-campaign-stop.
She got a story in the Guardian, complimenting her “sneakers,” as “a form of footwear finding their way into many women’s closets as part of a larger challenge to outmoded concepts of femininity.” Said the paper: “Traditionally, there is a standard shoe etiquette for women in political office – either alpha (see: Nancy Pelosi’s stilettos, Theresa May’s leopard print heels) or conservative (Elizabeth Warren’s slide sandals, Hillary Clinton’s pantsuit-matching kitten heels),” but Harris’ sneakers make her “a woman of action.” Hmmm, okay. See, https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/sep/03/kamala-harris-what-her-sneakers-mean.
Last, Harris got a puff piece in the New York Times, tying her to the 1952 black activist Charlotta Bass, who was a vice-presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket. Hard to see how that helps, but there it is. See, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/obituaries/charlotta-bass-vice-president-overlooked.html.
The gaping hole in Harris coverage – causing journalists to rummage, rough it, and scramble – begs a bigger question. Why was she picked? If she is an asset, why not deploy her to win constituencies she is good with? Or was this Harris pick, after all, a misfire?
On the numbers, Harris may have been a complete error. She abruptly left the presidential field in 2019. At the time, analysts saw her as less popular with female, black, Hispanic, and Midwestern voters – than she had imagined herself to be. Those are critical constituencies.
Analysts mused “black voters never flocked to Kamala Harris,” due to “black voters’ relative lack of interest in black candidates.” Buttigieg’s campaign questioned her electability. See, https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/04/kamala-harris-black-voters-2020-075651. Could it be simpler? Trump delivered huge employment numbers, labor participation, income growth, job quality, and elevated living standards to all Americans, including blacks – no pandering.
Other analysts saw Harris as inexperienced, undefined, inconsistent, ideologically squirrely, risky, and malleable. On any given day, she was prosecutor, centrist, socialist, opportunist.
She was divisive within the black community. Her selection produced more confusion than light or unity. Citing Rasmussen, an analyst wrote: “Harris divides blacks: One-third diss pick, now ‘less likely’ to vote for Biden.” See, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/harris-divides-blacks-one-third-diss-pick-now-less-likely-to-vote-for-biden
Looking to 2019, Harris’ weakness should not come as a surprise. Democrats wondered who she was, what she stood for, how she would play. In a New York Magazine article entitled “Why is Kamala Harris Struggling with Black Voters So Much,” a Democrat colloquy offered foresight.
One participant said she fumbled South Carolina – but should have soared. Why? First, “history has already been made with Obama, so there’s less perceived need for African-Americans to unite behind a black candidate.” Second, Obama was ideologically consistent and leftist, while “Harris is … mostly known as a cleverly tactical pol.” Third, Harris causes “Electability Terror” in 2020. See, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/kamala-harris-black-voters.html.
That last bit is important. Perhaps the reason Harris is not visible is that she offends as many traditional Democrats as she attracts. In short, she is a wash, and as such a drag on the ticket.
Like the physics of noise cancellation, in which waves cancel other waves, she may amount to a political interference pattern. If her ambition, age, background, skin and gender help with some voters, they may disaffect, distract, and put off others – critical to Democrat chances of victory.
In a final attempt to understand why Harris is invisible, consider the Midwest. Swing states won by Trump include Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona. Clinton squeakers were New Hampshire, Minnesota, Maine, Nevada, and Colorado. To that add vital Ohio and Iowa. Where – in all those states – does California Harris help?
Look closer. Biden leads in some of these states, but Trump is also closing. Harris did poorly in most, and 15 candidates were standing when she quit. How does her name help? Trump’s 2016 wins in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan puts pressure on Biden-Harris to flip these states. Harris offers little value in any of them. See, e.g. https://www.newsweek.com/these-six-states-could-determine-2020-presidential-election-1490996#:~:text=According%20to%20Maslin%2C%20if%20their%20nominee%20takes%20the,the%20industrial%20Midwest%20states%3A%20Michigan%2C%20Pennsylvania%20and%20Wisconsin.
Example: Biden-Harris must win Pennsylvania, or else flip Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona. Harris does not help. September polls show Trump-Pence erased a 9-point Biden lead in Pennsylvania since July. See, e.g., https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-09-02/trump-erases-bidens-lead-in-pennsylvania-poll?ocid=uxbndlbing; https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/Wisconsin.html#!.
Similarly, in Wisconsin – which Trump won in 2016 and tips Biden – people are paying attention to Trump’s “law and order” message. Riots continue to run roughshod over communities in dozens of states. How does Harris’s “socialism-go” message help? She could revert to “prosecutor,” but who would believe her, and how would her left wing respond?
National polls hardly validate Democrats – or Harris. A national poll, Rasmussen, for the first time puts Trump-Pence ahead 52-48. Again, while Biden bears blame, what did Harris add?
What does all this mean? Just this: A fragile, 77-year-old gaff-master was more ahead before Harris. With her, the team is losing ground. You can bet divisions exist within the campaign. Harris does not want to be tagged with Biden’s loss. Biden has no future after this race.
If Harris was once the perfect pretender for virtually every-identity group, voters are growing sage. Riots and the rot of anti-Trump rhetoric are old. Americans are discerning, intentional, individual, and increasingly concerned. As Biden slips and sleeps, Harris may be backfiring.
Kamala Harris is a bigger threat to Democracy then Biden. Here is a woman about 15% African American (her father mixed race) and about 60% Asian, touting her Black roots, whereas her parents divorced when she was a young child and lived and raised by her Indian mother. She says NOTHING about her Asian heritage. Reason – it would not get her the deceptive votes. Pathetic hypocrite.
Harris and Hillary: The Pantsuit Twins! Both lawyers, both corrupt to the core. They are the ultimate salt and pepper pair.
Camel Dog is a nobody – so, even if she shows up – she would be invisible. What a terrible candidate!
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…… history has already been made by Obama, so there’s less perceived need for blacks to unite behind an “African-American” candidate ….
Or even to be offered one.
For, rather than being an “African-American,” Sayyid-Hajji Buraq Hussayn bin Buraq Hussayn bin Hussayn Onyango Ubama: the direct descendant of generations of Arab slave traders; is around 90% Arab-American and only around 10% (one Luo/Kenyan grandmother) “African” and Harris: the daughter of a British Jamaican father and of a British (East) Indian mother; are no more “African-Americans” than is Rachel Dolezal one of those — nor Liarwatha an American Indian.
I can’t see how Biden/ Harris can win in November. They offer absolutely nothing to run on. The DNC was nothing but a snoozefest. I have seen reports of how traditional Democrats are leaving the party in groves, because it has become so anti American. We need to have a plan in place for the landslide victory when President Trump wins, against the civil unrest that will take place. God bless President Trump 2020.
And one more ‘ting ( sounds like Columbo, huh ) -That communist party ( D ) is totally infested with politicians who hate our Constitution. Why don’t they just leave ? Let’s get them ALL ( D ) voted out first.
If she ate too many tacos ? Yeah, probably backfiring.
Look Folks, Chameleon Kamala is a product of Willie Brown, former long time Speaker of the California Assembly and then Mayor of Oakland after he was termed out of State office. She started out as one of his many young concubines, then successfully ran for office. She learned her political skills from Willie, but has none of his charm. She probably is not as smart as he is and certainly not as skilled. She makes stupid mistakes by trying to lie her way through interviews to impress the audience she thinks is listening. She got caught early on in the Primary when she told a Rap Station DJ the names of her favorite artists when she was in college. Of course they were famous names that anybody would recognize. After the interview, the DJ pointed out that when Kamala was in college, those artists were not yet artists. BIG lie, told to “impress” black voters”. Even the DJ said she was a phony. She did especially bad in the primaries, but all of the black candidates did poorly. We tried an angry black man as president for 8 years. I just don’t think America is ready for another angry black man or woman just yet. This is NOT a racist nation and a lot of us get really tired of being told how bad we are and how bad this country is. It is 2020, not 1963. Elected Democrats don’t know that, especially black Democrats. She ads nothing to this ticket. I can think of no reason she was selected other than she was the only one dumb enough or desperate enough to take it. I think everybody else turned him down, but that’s just my guess. Who knows?
Harris is like the Manchuria Candidate, Can’t get elected but if Biden and a fraud ridden mail in vote gets the Democrats in power, the “fragile” one term Biden puts the Progressives in power without a direct vote for a Progressive. It’s the long game???
She is not popular with the African American citizens because she is not actually black….she certainly is not African black, her ancestors were rich and had slaves, and there is still the problem of her being eligible for this job in the first place as neither parent was a US citizen at her birth…she is what is called an anchor baby.
Must remember that those sneakers have rounded heals !!
She’s a pretty woman but she seems very awkward and insecure. Not polished at all as I expected. She desperately needs a voice coach and someone to teach her to walk. I know I sound picky but with all her education and public exposure, I expected more. Romney’s wife or our First Lady, Mellania might be two examples. It’s still true that you only have one chance to make a first impression Being teamed up with Biden, who is deteriorating quickly doesn’t help either..
Completely agree! We can not get overconfident like Hilary’s Democrats of 2016.
Harris has bad Karma. She slept with a political man, then threaten to sue him (they don’t want another Bill Clinton scandal in the White House). They are passing her off as a black woman, she’s Jamaican and Indian heritage. She’s anti religion and pro abortion, which is a no cite for me, right there.
The Democrats are trying to get votes by pushing to much BS.
She’s finding out it’s a lot harder to sleep your way to the top at 55! I don’t EVEN want to imagine a picture in my mind of her and Biden going at it. Things that make you go “eeeeeewwwww!” I’d have nightmares for weeks!
When Kamala Harris was the Attorney General for California, she removed the original title for Proposition 47 and renamed it the “Safer Schools and Neighborhood’s Act” it was a lie……..Proposition 47 let criminals out of jail and prison early, by the ten’s of thousands and what happened you might ask!! The crime rates in communities all across California increase dramatically, as you would expect……she lied to the folks to ensure that Prop 47 would pass…..she cannot be trusted with the truth Bobby!!! Never!! Ronald L.Kirkish
She is an idiot!! She is NOT reliable!!
Welcome to the Demshevik Campaign Follies starring Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb!
I really wonder if some previous time if this entity was a mistress to”sloppy joe”.
The VP candidate is always fairly quiet compared to Pres candidate. Look at Pence when running with Trump and I cannot even recall who was running with Hillary Clinton. And it seems like after election, the VP is still very quiet & does as POTUS wants.
Watching 700 Club today & they brought up push to add Washington, DC the 51st state. The founding fathers purposely made nation capital as a neutral area . I hope this is stopped, as can you imagine the US Govt depending on the Democratic mayor that is over DC at present time. The sole purpose of making this a state is to give one of parties more power over USA.
Both Joe and his running mate remained me of a line from HMS Pinafore:
“I always voted at my party’s call,
And I never thought of thinking for my self at all’
I thought so little they rewarded me
With the nomination for the presidency.”
The socialist/dems have known for years that TRUMP will be re-elected and hiden/harris are the sacrificial lambs because nobody else wants to be crushed and have that LOSER TAGGED on thier fat butts, these two have gone as far as they will ever get, AMERICANS are fed up with the hate and corruption and violence that seems to be the only things the dems can offer, REMOVE EVERY DEMONRAT AND SAVE AMERICA FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. VOTE TRUMP!!!! VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!
The only reason Kamala Harris was chosen as Biden’s VP is so that she can become president when shortly after he takes office, he is deemed to be too fragile to continue as president. Then Kamala can sweep in with her radical leftist agenda & continue where Obama left off destroying America with the democrats socialist ideas.
What will Kamala Harris do for the American people??? Just another self-serving democrat; a bag of hot air!
Kamala is as phony as they come, she is all about her, will say and do anything to advance her career in politics!
Biden and Harris are a Loser-on-Loser play. I expect they will be little more than minor footnotes in history books a few years from now.
One hypocrite after another, and another, and another….. What a corrupt, worthless mob and even worse, the dumbed down so-called “American” sheeple who buy into this madness. Most couldn’t tie their own shoes or wipe themselves without the government telling the to do it and how, and then subsidizing it. Now the same useful idiots who voted this inhuman anti-America scum into power are moving to red states to escape the waste they created only to lay waste all over again with their same radical leftist ideology. Biden-Harris: an exercise in evil and treason.
Vote: TRUMP 2020!!
Harris “backfires”? Backfiring is associated with exhaust- hard to tell which orifice she’s backfiring from, as both are pretty much the same.
The one thing about Kamala Harris is she’s a far Left radical. What I see on the far Left Social Media is the Left is ripe for radicalism. She’s a bully and the Progressives are bullies, so she fits their narratives. They love that she publicly threatens Conservatives like when she said after Trump gets beaten we’re next and she said ‘they’ are coming after us. So for all that this article claims that she is invisible, she’s worshipped by the Leftist ‘Whites’ everywhere. She also appeals to the terrorists on our city streets who we know will be voting in the upcoming election. The main problem we face is voter fraud and this should be the main focus now.
If all reasons listed in this article why Harris is a really bad choice weren’t enough, she really “stepped in it” when she
told sexual assaulter, general low life and violent arrest resister, Jacob Blake, that she was “proud” of him. You can’t
make this stuff up!!
She’s just a puppet for the globalist. They, the rich elite globalist, are the real threat to not only the United States, but to the entire world. We cannot let them win.
Harris isn’t their end game. Denying election results to block a Trump win is.
Harris just like every democrat speaks from both sides of their mouth…….say whatever lie required to obtain power and ruin America!
Wasn’t she the one who got into politics thanks to Brown?
Great Article. HOpe it’s got weight!
I would like all candidates to read Our Constitution of the USA and tell me their thoughts on each and every thing in it.I am having a problem with all of them.We the people have caused all our problems because we have not understood what INDEPENDENCE means.
She’s a non factor in this election. For the most part Trump and Pence have not responded to your attacks, which must be driving her and the Dems crazy. She was put on the ticket to be the attack dog, so far not working out so well! California is in bag so adding her to the ticket didn’t make much sense.
The last time I remember seeing her after she was chosen as VP, she stated that the looting and burning of cities would continue and not stop anytime soon. Let’s see, do I want that? No, I’m sure I don’t.
If by backfiring, you mean hurling, yes! Even the best hookers get full eventually!
The ticket is horrible. Two do-nothings with no message. It’s a losing ticket for certain.
Great word!