Allies of President Joe Biden didn’t want Kamala Harris as vice president in 2020. Democrat donors, party insiders, and the media were calling for her removal from the ticket when Biden’s 2024 campaign began.
Just last month a prominent progressive lawmaker admitted that “a lot of” Harris’s Democrat colleagues were openly calling for her removal.
It was so bad that the outcry for Kamala to be removed from the campaign was far more prevalent than those demanding the removal of Biden himself, despite the fact that he had clear cognitive and motor issues.
Think about that for a minute – The President of the United States was a clear and present danger to the nation due to his mental deficiencies … and they still thought Harris was the bigger problem.
Fast forward to this past Thursday, when the Democratic National Convention (DNC) installed Comrade Kamala in one of the most stunning political coups against democracy this nation has ever seen.
As with any successful hostile government takeover, the people must be inundated with propaganda to convince them that the coup was good and just. The DNC and their puppets in the media lathered on that propaganda in spades.
As is often the case for Democrats, reality paints a different picture. Harris remains a deeply flawed candidate that people in her own party couldn’t wait to get rid of from the onset.
In the summer of 2020, over a dozen close allies to then-candidate Biden were involved in a shadow campaign meant to keep Harris from being added to the ticket. The concern was that she was “too ambitious” and “solely focused on becoming president herself.”
Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), a member of Biden’s vice-presidential search committee at the time and former Chair of the DNC, had expressed deep concerns about Harris and even lobbied against her becoming the nominee for vice president.
Many of those initial concerns dissipated after the election. Harris was put on the back burner almost immediately, being named to the fictitious role of ‘border czar,’ where she was completely forgotten due to her inaction on the matter.
And besides, she had fulfilled her sole purpose for the Biden campaign – being black and a woman – and was no longer a vital cog to the administration.
Much of the disdain for Harris again resurfaced as speculation that Biden would run for reelection mounted. Her disappearing act on the border and any matter of substance became an issue.
The New York Times in February of 2023 ran a story about how several of Biden’s supporters were worried Harris “will be a political liability for the ticket,” in part because of her woefully lacking list of accomplishments.
“I can’t think of one thing she’s done except stay out of the way and stand beside [Biden] at certain ceremonies,” said John Morgan, a prominent Democrat fundraiser.
That same column shockingly revealed that dozens (plural) of Democrats had confessed that Kamala was not “a future leader of the party, much less the country.”
In fact, the Times sought out quotes from sources supportive of Harris as vice president and found that even “they had lost hope in her.”
That is a left-wing rag seeking out left-wing sources, and they still struggled to find anybody willing to say something positive about Kamala.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a month later, refused to endorse Harris as Biden’s running mate, even as she was enthusiastically behind Biden.
“Multiple Democratic leaders” cited by CNN said that support for Kamala was so tepid that they worried voters “might turn away from the ticket entirely.”
It wasn’t long before left-leaning columnists were chiming in and strongly pushing for Biden to dump his running mate.
New York Magazine outlet The Intelligencer’s features writer, Eric Levitz wrote a column titled, “The Case for Biden to Drop Kamala Harris,” in which he pointed out that Democrats had rallied behind Biden almost exclusively because they viewed Harris as so much worse.
Levitz cited horrible poll numbers early on in the new campaign in which just 41% of Democrats -Democrats! – said Harris made them think better of the administration, and only 30% said that they felt ‘enthusiastic’ about her being Biden’s running mate.”
Citing similar poll numbers, journalist and podcaster Josh Barro said Harris should not be the veep candidate because she is not “someone who is credible as the future leader of the Democratic Party.”
Again, Democrats don’t view her as a leader of the party, but they want American voters to view her as a leader of the country.
More recently, a scant six months ago, Douglas MacKinnon, a former White House and Pentagon official, revealed that he had spoken to “multiple high-level Democrats” and found “not one of them wants Harris on the ticket.”
The Washington Post followed up with an op-ed in March saying, “for the country’s sake, Vice President Harris should step aside” because she had become a “burden” to the ticket.
Now she’s at the top of the ticket.
Nothing, though, demonstrates just how quickly Democrats flipped the switch with their views on Harris than comments made by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC).
In an Instagram Live post on July 19th, AOC (D-NY) revealed that members of her own party were speaking openly about removing both Biden and Harris.
“If you think there is a consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave that they will support Vice President Kamala Harris, you would be mistaken,” she said.
“I’m in these rooms, I see what they say… a lot of them are not just interested in removing the president, they are interested in removing the whole ticket,” added AOC.
Two days later, Biden officially dropped out of the race, and the rewrite of Harris as a bumbling liability to a historic political force of nature began.
Her own party couldn’t wait to get her off the ticket from very early on.
They then spent the entire 2024 campaign lambasting her as the bigger liability to the ticket, and by extension the country, even as Biden tripped his way across the country, slurred his words in wildly incoherent speeches, and wandered aimlessly across countless stages.
Kamala was viewed as a worse option than that guy.
Now they place her on a pedestal and demand you pay homage with your vote.
