Fight Night: Kamala v. Pete

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Fight Night: Kamala v. Pete

Column: The Veep is down, the mayor is up.

Matthew Continetti • August 6, 2021 5:00 am

It was all hands on deck last month at the home of Washington, D.C., powerbroker Kiki McLean, according to the irrefragable Jonathan Swan of Axios. Some of the Democratic Party's most experienced and influential female political operatives—Donna Brazile, Jen Palmieri, Stephanie Cutter, Minyon Moore—gathered for dinner to discuss a germinating crisis within their party. "These were old friends getting together for the first time since the pandemic began, and celebrating a Democratic president after the Trump years," Swan reports. "But the dinner had an urgent purpose." Its object was to salvage the career of Vice President Kamala Harris. I hope there was plenty on hand to drink.

The brain trust arrived at two conclusions. First, Harris should emphasize her years as California's attorney general, thereby reducing her exposure to the charge that the Democrats are soft on crime. Second, the poohbahs decided that much of the criticism of Harris's job performance amounts to sexism. "Many of us lived through the Clinton campaign, and want to help curb some of the gendered dynamics in press coverage that impacted HRC," a source told Swan. The problem with ascribing your candidate's difficulties to "gendered dynamics," of course, is that it doesn't work. A candidate is truly "impacted" by their own attributes and competence. Sexism didn't bury Hillary Clinton's campaign. Clinton did—with a big assist from Robby Mook.

The subtext of Swan's article, and much of the Harris commentary these days, is the 2024 election. President Biden is 78 years old. Professional Washington appears convinced that he will decide against running for a second term. Harris, as vice president, is Biden's presumed successor. But the enthusiasm for her candidacy is not exactly overwhelming. Indeed, one of the most entertaining sideshows in the nation's capital since January has been the steel cage match between Harris and her rival within the cabinet, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The prize is the Democratic Party. At the moment, Mr. Secretary can say—in seven languages—that he's winning.

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They should call it fright night.

That Kamala seems to be like one would picture of a beaten down hag who took the quarter to have a rat gnawing on her face and is now running a prostitute house, doesn't it?