The Democrats in America have a problem: Kamala Harris.
And Charles Lipson, the Peter B. Ritzma professor of political science emeritus at the University of Chicago, wonders if they can get it solved.
In a Real Clear Wire commentary, he wrote Joe Biden’s pick to be his vice president is, in fact, “a living embodiment of the Peter Principle, where people keep getting promoted until they reach jobs for which they are clearly unqualified.”
Typically, a vice president of a sitting president is primed for a run for the Oval Office itself.
However, he explained, “Harris is deeply unpopular with independents, who are essential for electoral success (fewer than one in three voters view her favorably), and she is losing popularity among Democratic Party leaders. They see her ineptitude, listen to her word salads, and watch the polls with dismay. The latest evidence of Harris’ fading position is a sharply critical article in the New York Times, of all places, filled with anonymous disapproval from senior Democrats, many of whom once supported her. Now, they are worried.”
The real problem? Although she’s already considered a “drag” on the 2024 ticket for Democrats, “she’s almost impossible to drop.”