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Column: Democrats ‘Lost Hope’ in Kamala Harris

It’s funny when The New York Times comes under fire among liberals for saying something critical about Kamala Harris. A front-page story on February 6 was headlined “Frustrated Harris Struggles to Define Her Role.” This somehow required three reporters – Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Katie Rogers, and Peter Baker.

The passage that spurred all the fits came inside the paper, of course, on page A-13. It wasn’t hostile fire from Republicans. It was internal: “[T]he painful reality for Ms. Harris is that in private conversations over the last few months, dozens of Democrats in the White House, on Capitol Hill and around the nation — including some who helped put her on the party’s 2020 ticket — said she had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party, much less the country.”

But wait, the next sentence was even worse: “Even some Democrats whom her own advisers referred reporters to for supportive quotes confided privately that they had lost hope in her.” Even the authorized anonymous sources went rogue.

The Times also noted that author Chris Whipple recently quoted Biden as calling Harris “a work in progress.” They added comments from chief of staff Ron Klain, who served as chief of staff to two vice presidents (Gore and Biden). He said vice presidents often “take grief” but go on “to prove skeptics wrong.” This all recalls Dana Carvey’s impression of George H.W. Bush claiming his vice president, Dan Quayle, was “still gaining acceptance.”

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3 thoughts on “Column: Democrats ‘Lost Hope’ in Kamala Harris”

  1. The funnier part is that all Republicans expected her dismal performance in politics…

    She should stick to what she actually can do well….

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