In the 2020 presidential race, President Joe Biden's allies were hesitant about Kamala Harris's role as Vice President.
As the 2024 campaign commenced, Democratic donors, party insiders, and media outlets were advocating for her removal from the ticket.
According to RedState, a progressive lawmaker confessed last month that a significant number of Harris's Democratic colleagues were openly advocating for her removal. The clamor for Harris's removal from the campaign was more widespread than calls for Biden's removal, even though he was grappling with apparent cognitive and motor issues. This situation underscores the severity of the concerns surrounding Harris, given that the President was perceived as a threat to the nation due to his mental deficiencies.
Fast forward to the recent Democratic National Convention (DNC), where Harris was unexpectedly installed in a political maneuver that has been described as one of the most shocking coups against democracy in the nation's history. As is typical in such scenarios, the public was bombarded with propaganda from the DNC and its media allies, attempting to convince them of the righteousness of the coup.
However, the reality is starkly different. Harris continues to be a deeply flawed candidate, one that her own party was eager to discard from the beginning. In the summer of 2020, over a dozen of Biden's close allies were involved in a covert campaign to prevent Harris from joining the ticket. They were concerned that she was "too ambitious" and "solely focused on becoming President herself."
Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), a member of Biden's vice-presidential search committee and former Chair of the DNC, had expressed deep concerns about Harris and even lobbied against her becoming the nominee for Vice President. After the election, many of these concerns faded, and Harris was relegated to the background, assigned the nominal role of 'border czar,' a position she was largely forgotten in due to her inaction.
As speculation about Biden's re-election campaign grew, the disdain for Harris resurfaced. Her absence from the border and any substantive issues became a problem. The New York Times ran a story in February 2023 about how several of Biden's supporters were worried Harris "will be a political liability for the ticket," in part because of her lack of accomplishments.
John Morgan, a prominent Democrat fundraiser, said, I cant think of one thing shes done except stay out of the way and stand beside [Biden] at certain ceremonies. The same column shockingly revealed that dozens of Democrats had confessed that Kamala was not "a future leader of the party, much less the country."
Even left-leaning sources sought out by the Times for supportive quotes about Harris as Vice President admitted that "they had lost hope in her." This sentiment was echoed by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who refused to endorse Harris as Bidens running mate, even as she was enthusiastically behind Biden.
"Multiple Democratic leaders" cited by CNN said that support for Kamala was so tepid that they worried voters "might turn away from the ticket entirely." Left-leaning columnists soon joined the chorus, urging Biden to replace his running mate. Eric Levitz, a features writer for The Intelligencer, wrote a column titled, "The Case for Biden to Drop Kamala Harris, in which he pointed out that Democrats had rallied behind Biden almost exclusively because they viewed Harris as so much worse.
Douglas MacKinnon, a former White House and Pentagon official, revealed six months ago that he had spoken to multiple high-level Democrats and found not one of them wants Harris on the ticket. The Washington Post followed up with an op-ed in March saying, for the countrys sake, Vice President Harris should step aside because she had become a burden to the ticket.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) revealed in an Instagram Live post on July 19th that members of her own party were speaking openly about removing both Biden and Harris. If you think there is a consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave that they will support Vice President Kamala Harris, you would be mistaken," she said. "I'm in these rooms, I see what they say... a lot of them are not just interested in removing the President, they are interested in removing the whole ticket, added AOC.
Two days later, Biden officially dropped out of the race, and the narrative of Harris as a bumbling liability was rewritten as a historic political force of nature. Despite the party's initial eagerness to remove her from the ticket, they spent the entire 2024 campaign criticizing her as the bigger liability to the ticket, and by extension the country, even as Biden stumbled across the country, delivered incoherent speeches, and wandered aimlessly across countless stages. Now, they place her on a pedestal and demand your vote.
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