December 10, 2021
Power struggle: The White House bid to oust Kamala Harris
By Monica Showalter
Kamala Harris doesn't actually do anything in her job, and maybe that's more than just her laziness. Actually, with her miserable performance, and her poll numbers bottoming even Joe Biden's, she seems to be in the throes of a power struggle with the White House to hold on to her job.
That's the argument of the American Spectator, which has an interesting piece on signs of a White House bid to dump Harris:
The White House has been undercutting the vice president since Inauguration Day. She was assigned a portfolio of controversial and virtually impossible-to-achieve issues: stemming the flow across our southern border and passing legislation to federalize elections to overturn state laws that make it harder to commit voter fraud. More recently, Harris was dispatched to Paris for the thankless task of trying to mend our relationship with France in the aftermath of keeping President Emmanuel Macron in the dark as the Biden administration canceled the French contract to build submarines for Australia.
They are intentionally giving her tough assignments to torpedo her, and the consequent negative press she has generated has eroded her support to the extent that only 28 percent of voters approve of her job performance. Another poll found that 47 percent did not think she was qualified to be president.
A string of negative stories began appearing starting in May with headlines like "Kamala Harris Bombs at the Naval Academy." Negative stories attributed to "anonymous White House sources" have appeared at an ever-increasing rate: "White House 'Perplexed' By Kamala Harris Performance on First Foreign Policy Trip: CNN," "Biden's milestone VP pick is looking more like a millstone," and "The Long Knives Come out for Kamala Harris as Her Vice Presidency Continues to Collapse."
The drumbeat picked up with a June 30 Politico story headlined "Not a healthy environment: Kamala Harris' office rife with dissent." It quoted anonymous White House "sources" who said that Harris's office was dysfunctional: "It's become an all-too-familiar pattern for a politician who has churned through several iterations of staff on her rise." Similar stories denigrating Harris continued all summer. Then, on election night, November 2, the world collapsed on the Dems with dismal showings in state and local elections across the country. It was time to reassess their plans for the elections in 2022. ...
A little more than a week after the Dems' disastrous showing in state and local elections, the press unloaded withering broadsides at Kamala. On November 10, the Hill published a scathing critique of Harris: "At 28 percent, say goodbye to Kamala Harris being Plan B for an aging Biden."
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/power_struggle_the_white_house_bid_to_oust_kamala_harris.html
