Democrats say Kamala is not ‘adept as a communicator,’ is underwhelming and has been invisible

Democrats say Vice President Kamala Harris is not ‘an expert communicator,’ disappointing and has been nearly invisible in a brutal assessment of her political future, as President Joe Biden moves closer to making a decision on a nomination for 2024.

The Washington Post shared the thoughts of more than a dozen Democratic leaders Monday, several of whom spoke on condition of anonymity so they could speak more candidly about their concerns.

Democrats told the newspaper they feared Harris didn’t have what it takes to win the White House, which comes on the heels of what seemed mildly made by prominent Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was non-committal to keeping Harris in office. Biden’s candidacy.

Asked if Harris should run again, Warren replied, “I really want to give in to what makes Biden comfortable on his team,” before issuing a statement saying she “fully supports[s] the joint reelection of the president and vice president, and never with the intention of implying otherwise.’

Democrats told the newspaper they feared Harris (left) might not have what it takes to win the White House, which comes after what sounded like a slight on the part of prominent Senator Elizabeth Warren, who did not commit to for Harris to stay in Biden’s job. (right) ticket.

“People are prepared to pounce on anything, any misstep, any mistake, anything she says, so she probably won’t get the benefit of the doubt,” the former Cobb County, Georgia Democratic chairwoman told the newspaper. , Jacquelyn Bettadapur.

But Bettadapur added that many Democrats “don’t know enough about what she’s doing,” adding that “it doesn’t help that she’s not [that] skilled as a communicator.

Harris’ best-known assignment has been misconstrued: with Biden tasking her with running the point with the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, where most of those who cross the southern border flee.

That got Harris labeled the “border czar,” even though the White House said she was tasked with addressing the root causes of migration, not the border crisis.

She also showed off her less-than-stellar communication skills, when pressed by NBC’s Lester Holt about why she hadn’t been to the border, only to be told, “And I haven’t been to Europe either.”

More recently, Harris has been traveling the country advocating for abortion access, but those events are often underappreciated.

“I think the main thing is I wish she was out there and more visible,” said JA Moore, a South Carolina state legislator who endorsed Harris in her 2020 bid. “They want to see that representation, they want to see her face more and see its connection to what the administration is doing,” he said of the Democratic groups.

But it’s also Harris’s race and gender that make Democrats nervous about fully backing her, party leaders suggested.

“I think a lot of Democrats have changed from the sentiment of 2008, or even the sentiment of 2012 and 2016, which was to vote for aspirations,” Brady Quirk-Garvan, former chairman of the Charleston County Democratic Party, told The Post.

“Democrats right now: I don’t hear a lot about aspirations. I hear about what will guarantee a win, what is a certainty, what feels safe,” Quirk-Garvan continued.

Many Democrats were shocked by the 2016 election results, when their landmark candidate, former First Lady, US Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was defeated by a reality TV star who had never held office. politician, now former President Donald Trump.

So in 2020, even though there were a variety of female, black, gay and Jewish candidates, Democrats went with Biden, whose most diverse trait is that he is the country’s second Catholic president.

‘There’s a segment that just won’t vote for a woman for president, and there’s another segment that won’t vote for an African-American. With two of those check boxes, you’re going to have a higher threshold anyway,” Erick Allen, chairman of the Cobb County Democrats, told the newspaper. “Hillary only got one of those checks, and she was able to get vilified and beaten to the point where she couldn’t recover.”

“There are some people in our party who say, ‘We already have roadblocks. We don’t believe any more,'” Allen added.