In a recent revelation, Kamala Harris has provided a glimpse into her forthcoming book about the 2024 election.
The excerpt, which was published in a liberal media outlet, The Atlantic, owned by Harris's affluent friend Laurene Powell Jobs, paints a picture of a Biden White House that was far from competent. Harris insinuates that one of the most significant blunders of the Biden team was their failure to utilize her full potential as Vice President.
However, much like the majority of her political arguments, this one fails to hold water.
Harris expresses her discontent with the White House's refusal to assign her a straightforward role that required minimal effort or skill. It has been revealed in other books that her initial proposal to be put in charge of "overseeing relations with the Nordic countries" was not only dismissed but also "privately mocked."
She expresses her frustration at being blamed for the porous border and an illegal immigration crisis "that had proved intractable," until Donald Trump assumed office and promptly resolved it. Harris criticizes the Biden administration for not emphasizing the fact that under her leadership, U.S. companies invested nearly $1 billion to create 70,000 jobs in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. "The story remained untold," Harris laments.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, the unsuccessful candidate is particularly disgruntled that the White House did not dedicate more time and resources to publicly defend her from criticism. "When Fox News attacked me on everything from my laugh, to my tone of voice, to whom Id dated in my 20s, or claimed I was a 'DEI hire,' the White House rarely pushed back with my actual rsum," she writes.
"They had a huge comms team; they had Karine Jean-Pierre briefing in the pressroom every day. But getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible."
Harris's laugh was indeed grating. She was a DEI hire. Biden had pledged to only consider female running mates and had a preference for Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, but Al Sharpton and other black activists persuaded him to select a black woman for the sake of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Karine Jean-Pierre, another diversity hire, was notably poor at her job. If anything, Harris should be relieved that KJP wasn't constantly attempting to defend her.
There is also no evidence to suggest that Harris would have benefited from White House efforts to promote her "actual rsum." She had already introduced herself to the country while running for President in the Democratic primary. Once considered a formidable candidate, she ended her campaign in disgrace before the voting even began.
Interestingly, reports suggest that her failed campaign (and every office she's ever held) was plagued by the same dysfunction that haunted her office after becoming Vice President. In the book excerpt, Harris attributes the unusually high turnover among her staff to the "challenge of confronting gendered stereotypes."
For the sake of argument, we decided to compile some of the so-called accomplishments Harris might include on her rsum. Perhaps she wouldnt have lost if the White House had been more aggressive in reminding voters why Joe Biden picked her as his running mate. Not the actual reasons, of course, which were DEI and her lack of core beliefs.
Harris's professional profile is one of imagining what can be, unburdened by what has been. Her career accomplishments include cultivating a romantic partnership with Willie Brown, the 60-year-old speaker of the California State Assembly, at just 29 years of age.
As the first woman of color to serve as district attorney of San Francisco, she pursued anti-crime policies that the Democratic Party would resoundingly reject as racist. As the first woman of color to serve as attorney general of California, she orchestrated large-scale legal workflows, driving measurable outcomes by onboarding 2,000+ individuals into state correctional facilities for marijuana-related infractions.
As the second woman of color to serve in the U.S. Senate, she advocated for marijuana legalization, partook in the incessant badgering of Brett Kavanaugh, and was an early cosponsor of the Green New Deal. As a candidate for president, she vocalized strong support for taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegal immigrants in prison.
As the second person of color to serve as Vice President, she optimized human capital inflows at the U.S.-Mexico border by disrupting legacy enforcement infrastructures via frictionless entry protocols.
The question remains, would these so-called accomplishments have helped her cause?
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