Embarrassing Morning Joe gaffe after guest said Kamala should be remembered for her ‘accomplishments’

A progressive activist has been criticized after she said Kamala Harris should be fondly remembered for her achievements during her term as vice president.

MSNBC regular Lauren Leader made this claim Friday morning Joe — and was immediately shunned for failing to provide any example beyond Harris’ support for abortion.

The conversation with guest host Katty Kay – who filled in for Joe and Mika – focused on the looming return of detention centers for migrant families, a strategy introduced by then-President Donald Trump but pulled by President Joe Biden.

President-elect Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan on Thursday raised the possibility that the centers once labeled inhumane for detaining children could return as early as next year.

Leader, a frequent contributor of opinion-based content for both MSNBC and outlets like The Hill, called Homan’s plans “disturbing” before calling out the sole person President Biden had tasked with handling the situation.

Critics say Harris has largely failed on that front, leaving Americans to suffer for the sake of immigrant families.

After being asked to resolve the crisis early on, it was years before she made her first (and only) visit to the area in September this year.

Beyond that, Harris took the lead on issues like abortion rights — but not much else. Yet Leader insisted she would go down as one of the most “talented” vice presidents in history – before claiming illegal aliens should be given protection if they have citizen children.

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“I think history will look favorably on her tenure,” Leader told Kay and others during the broadcast.

“She was an extraordinary advocate on issues important to women that we’ve never seen before – and I think a lot of women, and really anyone who is a first, who is a trailblazer, is carrying an extra heavy burden .

“And the burden that’s on them, it’s an incredibly difficult road and path to walk,” the activist continued, adding, “But she did it with grace.”

‘I think [Harris] has taken some very important steps for the benefit of women in the country.

“I think the way she defined the issue of abortion rights, as an issue of freedom, will be seen as particularly defining,” she declared, before offering a bald, somewhat puzzling explanation.

“I hope we take a moment to recognize her extraordinary contributions to history – and not just that her only legacy is the loss of the presidency.

“Because there is so much more she accomplished in her time,” Leader continued, with a chyron next to her insisting, “Impact of Kamala Harris and her historic four years.”

“The fact that she lost the election has overshadowed what was so extraordinary and important about her achievements as the first female vice president.”

Many viewers pointed out that Harris’ list of achievements noted by Leader was remarkably short. One person wrote: ‘They can’t name one because there aren’t any.’

Another added: ‘”Extra heavy load”? Besides showing up for photo ops and saying the same word five times in a row, what exactly is her “extraordinary contribution”?

“If abortion is the only ‘achievement’ they can mention, that says everything about their priorities and their track record.”

And another critic added: ‘This is laughable. No VP has ever done less than her.”

The discussion of the show then turned to ex-HUD Secretary Julián Castro, with showrunners giving the former Fed the final say, while Leader seemingly went scot-free when it came to listing examples.

Harris, meanwhile, spent much of the 2022 midterms before replacing Biden appealing to voters with promises to prioritize reproductive rights following the Supreme Court’s surprise decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Harris met with lawmakers from 18 states to discuss the issue, which she vowed to correct once she reached the Oval Office.

However, factors such as inflation and the ongoing crisis at the southern border proved to be its downfall, after Biden withdrew after being bombarded over the same issues and over suspicions surrounding his sanity.

Meanwhile, Trump doubled down on his anti-illegal immigration stance, which alienated some voters in 2020 and even 2016, saying earlier this year that migrants were “poisoning the blood of the US” at the expense of legal immigrants.

Latino voters from battleground states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania — many of whom fled their home states in search of a better life — seemed to take notice in November, a survey by The New York Times in Siena found.

It found that more than 40 percent of Latino and Hispanic voters continued to support building a wall, and 63 percent of respondents said they don’t “feel like it.” [Trump] is talking about me” when discussing immigration policy.

Biden’s failures — and thus Harris’s — further fueled their belief that something more needs to be done when it comes to deportations and border control, as evidenced by the marked turnout of Latino Trump supporters.

The Demographic’s somewhat surprising support for the president-elect was up significantly since his loss to Biden, when he won just 32 percent.

Biden and Harris’ inability to tackle inflation also proved decisive, said experts such as Jeronimo Cortina, a political science professor at the University of Houston – as Americans across the country expressed frustration over a rapid rise in their costs of living.

“Latinos said, ‘I don’t care what Trump says. I want to be able to pay the bills, I want to be able to send my child to college. I want to pay the mortgage, pay for a new car,” he told Axios about the mentality of Latino voters.

“I think this is really a story of the headwinds that were clearly too much for Democrats to overcome structurally (and) with the economy,” added Álvaro J. Corral of the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, while he admitted to being surprised by “the scale of the crisis.” the shift since 2020.

Many Latinos, he pointed out on the website, are working class, adding that despite recent progress in helping the declining U.S. dollar, “even downward inflation is still not good.”

Such ideas seemed lost on Leader Friday, when she portrayed both Biden and Harris as political savants.

In addition to pointing out that the cost of Homan’s deportation plans could cost Americans nearly a trillion dollars, she called them morally “disturbing.”

“They consider anyone who has entered the country as having committed a crime,” Leader said of the menacing government.

‘I don’t think most 4:54 Americans see it that way. We have families who have lived here for decades, who are law-abiding, tax-paying non-citizens.”

She added that since illegal aliens “have citizen children,” they should receive some federal protection.

“Frankly, also what it could do to the American economy,” she warned at another point. “When you think about what this would do to the workforce.”