A USA Today-Suffolk University poll placed Vice President Kamala Harris’ approval ratings at 28%, 10 points below that of President Joe Biden. The U.K. Telegraph tweeted: “With Kamala Harris looking unelectable, the Democrats are considering the nuclear option. Whispers in Washington suggest Joe Biden’s camp has a plan to find a more popular replacement ahead of the 2024 battle.”
When Harris ran for president, she dropped out before the Iowa caucus, the first contest in the primary. She garnered little support from her home state, California. Harris got called out for hypocrisy during a debate by rival Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, for — among other things — prosecuting marijuana crimes only to make light in an interview about smoking marijuana.
When Harris quit the race, she said: “I’ve taken stock and I’ve looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days I have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life. My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.”
But the party’s presidential nominee picked her as his running mate. When Harris became vice president, Biden announced her role as a border czar and also asked her to be his point person to push the passage of a proposed “voting rights” law. The border remains a mess, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act was stalled in the Senate. Her staff grumbled off the record, calling these two jobs lose-lose, and even suggested “racism” at play given the growing stature of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. And then there is the cackle. Critics say Harris resorts to this kind of phony, uncomfortable laughter when she struggles to answer questions for which she is not prepared.
All of this raises the question: Why did Biden choose her in the first place?
The answer is simple. The woke/identity Democratic Party could not and would not abide another presidential and vice-presidential ticket with two white males. The party’s most loyal constituency is black females. According to Pew Research Center data released in 2020: “In 2018 and 2019, 48% of White women identified as Democrats, compared with 35% of White men. … Among Hispanic women (67% identified as Democrats vs. 58% of Hispanic men. …) … Black women (87%) were more likely than Black men (77%) to identify as Democrats.”
So, Harris checked the necessary boxes — a female “person of color” who identifies as black. But this also presents a problem. If the Biden administration tossed her overboard it would face a withering attack of “sexism and racism.” Consider NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson’s response to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager on trial for killing two white men and injuring a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin: “We have seen this same outcome time and time again. … This verdict is a reminder of the treacherous role white supremacy and privilege play within our justice system.”
In addition, while Harris may be broadly unpopular, she enjoys a 72% approval rating among black voters, and her approval among black female voters is likely even higher. So, the only possible way out is for Biden and the party to swap her for another black female. But the bench is shallow.
Michelle Obama? She hates politics and has repeatedly said she has no interest. Oprah Winfrey? Ditto. Domestic policy adviser Susan Rice? Tainted by the falsehoods about Benghazi that she peddled as former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Rice was not put forward as Obama’s secretary of state because she would not have gotten Senate confirmation. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.? Too offensive. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams? She claims, despite a lack of evidence, that she actually won but her race was stolen. This would rob Democrats of their attack line against former President Donald Trump, who makes the same claim about the 2020 presidential election for himself. Virginia Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice? Wrong party.
No, the Dems are stuck with Harris.
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“As a dog returns to its vomit, so the fool returns to his folly”, as a hog returns to his pigpen, so the Democrats would return to embrace their Kamala Oinker if Joe were to keel over tomorrow, and all grab their barf bags like on a Democrat party aircraft ride about to take a nose dive. This is the party of ever-changing strange bed fellows, from Kamala to Buttigieg to Hunter and back to the pigpen. THE PEOPLE are tired of soiled values and laundered money, and long to elect a candidate with clean sheets and unsoiled integrity who have more to offer THE PEOPLE than the political flavor of the day skin color and genders that bend with any ill wind, and elections where your candidate checks all the boxes which later turn out to have belonged to Pandora once their evil unfulfilled promises pop out.
I am shocked, 60% of blacks STILL have faith in kamala…
Indeed since she is ethnically only about 12 % African only on her daddy’s side.
Ituser: “while Harris may be broadly unpopular, she enjoys a 72% approval rating among black voters, and her approval among black female voters is likely even higher.”
What does this tell you about the intelligence, patriotism and self-respect of 72% of black voters??
They want to be servants/slaves on the Democrat Party’s plantation.
What intelligence, self respect or patriotism!
That’s what happens when the dummycrats put people in jobs where skin color and being a queer are the only qualifications to get a job in stupid ********* Joe’s administration. She’s an ex porno star and not white so that’s all she needed. Surprised she wasn’t picked for a job when Clinton was president.
“All of this raises the question: Why did Biden choose her in the first place?”
In addition to the answer given in the article, Biden didn’t want someone smarter than him posing challenges to his authority. He wants to operate as a loose cannon under the guise of intelligence.
Democrats stuck with her? Somehow the word “Tar Baby” keeps popping into mind. The thorns of her briar patch run sharp and run deep in this current updated Democrat Song of the South that now takes us all south of the border where Kamala cannot ever be seen, with both her and Joe having turned the entire country into a very sticky situation.
HIS Handlers TOLD HIM “you will get a woman of color”.. and he jumped…
That’s funny. It is exactly the reason obummer chose biden.
And let’s not forget—thanks to her, black trees matter.
It looks like the Democrats want to make Mike Butigeig as their champion…. let’s hope so. He’s so spectacularly unaccomplished, it’s hilarious.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is retiring, why not by pass VP Harris for her???? That would make even CHEATER Joe Biden look better, which we thought was impossible!!!!
That would be scary!
She’s a complete and total embarrassment to women of any political persuasion. That’s what you get for going “woke” and not choosing the best person for the job. While I like the look of egg on the faces of the democrat party members who are struggling now to support her incompetence, the truth is, she is hurting all of us.
Something about how the knee pads are used, is what I heard, not quite clear whether it was her or Buttagain. lol
The plan is, always was, for the VP to resign/disappear, then the person who the Democratic leadership wanted for POTUS can be appointed. Once that is done Biden will resign/disappear and the Communist/Democrats will have their leader installed and real tyranny will begin as the nation craps on itself.