A new report in the New York Times indicates that Kamala Harris is closest
allies have pretty much given up on her as vice president.
That is not a good sign.
A quick excerpt from the piece.
The painful reality for 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.
Even some Democrats whom her own advisers referred reporters to for
supportive quotes confided privately that they had lost hope in her.
And to be quite honest,
I haven't really seen much of Kamala Harris during the administration.
I will also say that in the beginning of Biden's term, he kinda gave her this
impossible task of solving immigration, essentially setting her up to fail.
So let's be fair about that.
But Kamala Harris really does seem to struggle with everything right now,
including public speaking engagements,
explaining what the Biden administration stands for.
I mean you keep seeing these instances play out over and
over again to the point where her closest allies are now pretty much abandoning her,
especially in the context of this New York Times story and
the interviews they conducted with them.
>> Yeah, so, look, I don't know if she's nervous, I don't know what's going on,
but she's clammed up.
And she's not doing the Biden administration any favors,
she's certainly not doing herself any favors.
And I have suggestions on how she can turn it around.
But I think that the number one issue is that we expect that our leader,
our leaders, politicians, businessmen, people,
cable news anchors are really smart and I got news for you.
I don't think they are because I'm gonna suggest some things that she could easily
do even within the confines of her job that I bet she's never even considered.
I'm not sure anybody in Washington is considered.
I bet her top allies haven't considered.
>> So let me just note,
Biden has an upcoming book titled The Fight of His Life.
And Joe Biden refers to Kamala Harris as a work in progress.
>> No, they have a bad relationship.
There's no question about it.
>> And so that sets her up for failure- >> Yeah, it does.
>> So there's that and I think that there is some truth to the nervous,
she appears nervous.
Every time she has a speaking engagement I'm like, are you okay?
It feels like she has a fear of public speaking when we know that,
especially as a former prosecutor,
I mean we've seen her cross examine people like Brett Kavanaugh during hearings.
And so you can see the confidence in that context.
But today, when you see her at public events,
it's actually kinda shocking how she seems incredibly uncomfortable, nervous.
Now according to the New York Times, Harris chose to avoid the media for
an entire year after the disastrous interview you're about to watch,
in which she could not answer whether or not she had been to the border.
So here's that moment.
>> Do you have any plans to visit the border?
>> I'm here in Guatemala today at some point,
we are going to the border, we've been to the border.
So this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border,
we've been to the border.
>> You haven't been to the border?
>> And I haven't been to Europe,
[LAUGH] I mean I don't understand the point that you're making.
>> Yeah, I mean, no, I haven't been to the border because guess what?
Policy making doesn't require you to be in the exact place.
What's gonna happen if I visit the border?
What new information am I gonna get out of that, right?
I mean I would have been dismissive of the question and I would have moved forward
with what the Biden administration intends to do, what their ideology is when it
comes to immigration, how it allegedly differs from the Trump administration,
even though he extended a lot of the Trump era anti immigration policies.
But nonetheless, I mean after that, she just decided,
I'm not gonna do any interviews for a full year.
Now last year,
the Biden administration apparently tried to pull a similar move on Kamala Harris,
similar to her basically being like the person to solve immigration.
They had her or
wanted to assign her as the person who deals with the baby formula shortage and
she's like, no, she apparently declined and I think that was the right move.
>> Yeah, so that's actually a perfect case for what I wanna say.
So number one, just, again, say it's not like she's not in a difficult position.
First of all, the vice president has no power,
that makes it difficult to begin with.
Number two, Biden picked her but
then weirdly decided to ambush her as his own vice president.
It's almost Trumpian minus the violence, right?
Go do the unsolvable immigration problem.
Baby formula.
Everybody hates that we're at a baby formula.
You're a woman, go stand in front of some new shipments, okay?
And there's a little bit of sexism in there plus you go handle another nuclear
problem and make it seem like it's your problem, not my problem.
>> And real quick, let me jump in.
These are problems that require congressional legislation.
When you talk about the baby formula shortage,
that was a result of Abbott industries, okay?
The top producer of baby formula not investing in its own company
to basically improve or fix the machinery that they had there,
which is why the baby formula ended up being tainted with bacteria and
it killed literal babies in the country as a result.
So to say, hey, Kamala Harris or
one person in the executive branch deal with this is ridiculous.
Of course, that set someone up for failure.
>> I hear you.
And what's even harder is if Kamala Harris came up with a plan to blame Abbott
industries cuz it's correct, my guess is the Biden administration would have
tackled her and said, that is a beloved corporation, we can never cross and
remember, there are bosses so well then now you're even further bound.
But at the same time her supporters can't help themselves.
They always make arguments about racism and sexism and historic this and this,
historic that whether it makes sense or not like one of her former
staff Frances like she's 5"2 and in all the chairs, they're made for white males.
He didn't say why.
He didn't say why to be fair.
But they're made for ex vice presidents who are male and they're taller.
Dude, don't complain about that.
That's insane, okay?
Then you look stupid and petty, okay?
Who cares about the chairs?
That's why she can't do her job cuz of the chairs.
So look, where the fair's showing America, we're telling you what the issues are.
So what now to be further fair, let's be constructive.
What could Kamala Harris do but that she's choosing not to do?
As always, two things.
One is rhetoric, the other's substance.
So for example, we're gonna show you later in the show on a different topic an issue
of immigration Maxwell Frost, the youngest congress person ever in American history,
did a great job of questioning people in his first hearings and he said, hey,
he asked the officials in charge, hey,
has the border policy change between Trump and Biden?
And this is what we say on the actors all the time, right?
And the answer is, no, of course it hasn't.
Can people just walk into the country?
Do we have an open border?
No, of course not.
No, the enforcement is the same exact thing as it was under Trump.
That wasn't hard, was it?
Why didn't Kamala Harris do that?
It's so simple.
So immigration is a tough thing to solve.
But you can go out there and be like, it's the same policy.
Every Republican who says that it's an open border policy is lying and
Lester Holt, you should check them and say this is totally unacceptable.
Stop lying to the American people about what the actual policy is.
By the way, also stop lying to the immigrants who are getting hope because
they think that's an open border because Republicans are lying to them, okay?
And it's driving up illegal immigration because of Republicans.
Come on guys, just this is not hard, Maxwell Frost just showed it to you.
What is he, 29, 13, if he can do it, Kamala Harris, you can do it, okay?
And then on the substance, come up with a plan.
Okay, so one thing I can't stand about this New York Times species, normal,
mainstream media like, my God, she is so animated about abortion.
What does that mean?
That doesn't mean anything.
She really cares about that issue.
And how does she show that?
So here's how I would show it.
I would come up with a proposal, right?
And here's how we could fight for women's rights and
I would go pitch that to the president and then I pitch another proposal and another
proposal until they said, hey, good one, and they say, hey, Mr. President,
can I please go campaign on your behalf of the Democratic Party in all these places?
And if she had done that,
when we won on choice in places like Montana and Kansas and Kentucky,
then she would have gotten credit for it, right or wrong, right?
But if you sit on your ass on your chair that's too high and don't do anything,
that's when people are gonna say, I guess she's not cut out for
the job because I haven't seen her door goddamn thing.
And that part is totally correct.