Vice President Kamala Harris is on a collision course with the very person to whom she owes both her office and her candidacy: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the 46th President of the United States.
There's really no way around this, but to her credit, she's actively looking for other ways. The polls are bad, and everyone in DC knows that the Democrats' better, more expensive, in-house polls are even worse.
Personality aside, what does she sell? She keeps promising to “turn the page,” but from where?
Two weeks ago today, these numbers forced the camp to abandon the bunker strategy, but the safe zone camp's operatives who chose the venue for the debut match were also of no help. The social media clip of her gaffe reached far beyond its intended audience, hurting the very voters Harris was trying to reach. When her viewership numbers continued to decline after the air raids, the camp tried the following: That's because Fox News, which CNN and MSNBC love to ridicule, has a much larger politically independent audience than them. Harris has CNN on her side. She needs independent people.
Her staff did everything they could to keep Bret Baier's interview under control. They showed up late and waved their arms like crazy people trying to cut it short. After it ended, Democratic partisans presented the candidate with a participation trophy, claiming she did a good job just by showing up. Republicans cheered on Harris' televised sabotage. The corporate media called it a Rorschach test and claimed that both sides won.
But notice: Democrats couldn't point to a single thing she actually did well. Meanwhile, Republicans broadcast footage of her frantic outbursts in response to Baier's sharp and persistent questioning. By Thursday afternoon, one Team Trump TikTok had already been viewed 10.5 million times. He asked her how she could describe “new progress” three and a half years after Mr. Baier took office.
“Come on,” she bent down and smiled.
both You know what I'm talking about. ”
“Not really,” he answered calmly. “What are you talking about?”
viral gold. But this question further highlights her inability to expand her horizons. Republicans, Democrats, and who cares about Rorschach's inkblot? Wednesday night was about convincing disaffected partisans and undecided people. In this she completely failed.
And really, how could she succeed? Personality aside, what does she sell? She keeps promising to “turn the page” (the side of her campaign bus literally says “new progress”), but from where?
As Mr. Byer pointed out, 79% of the country thinks it's going in the wrong direction, and four years into his office in the West Wing, he says painting letters on the side of a bus isn't enough. there is no. Democrats must face up to the fact that the elephant in the room is not the Big Old Party, but that they themselves may be the direction Americans reject.
So why can't she say that? Why can't she thank Uncle Joe but say she's going to take a different path on the economy and that the administration made a mistake on the border as well? Will the final betrayal be too much for Biden to bear? Was there an agreement when the Crown was passed?
There is no doubt that he could lash out in public even more than he has behaved in recent weeks. If Biden ever held deep core beliefs, he betrayed them long ago to serve personal ambitions and the demands of the Democratic Party. Then in 2016, the political party he worked for betrayed him and alienated him for her. He returns and succeeds where she fails, but then they do it again, sidelining him for the second time in eight years. He is so angry that he complains about it in private.
and at the funeral. What happens if your vice president betrays you in public? Will he have a calm and joyous night, or will he flare up and become frenzied as the sun sets?
However, the Harris-Waltz camp has no choice. That's why Harris talked to Baier in the first place. She's taking the risk because she has to. Why else, if not desperation, would the campaign release hours of dialogue with Joe Rogan in which Kamala is so weak? Sooner or later, her aides will conclude that she has to twist the knife on her boss to have a chance to start a new life. It won't be pretty, but it will be necessary.
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