How Kamala ditched her ‘incompetent’ sister Maya after their relatives blamed her for single-handedly ruining the 2020 Harris campaign

Among the avalanche of questions raining down on presidential hopeful Kamala Harris’ head, one of the most intriguing is this: Where has your sister gone?

Just two years younger than Kamala, 57-year-old Maya Harris has been described as the vice president’s ‘Bobby Kennedy’ – a reference to the late US attorney general who was an inseparable companion and indispensable adviser to his brother, President John F Kennedy.

The Harris sisters have long experience working together and have worked together on political victories, leading Kamala to become California’s attorney general and later a U.S. senator.

Kamala calls their bond ‘unbreakable’. And when she got a call from President Joe Biden in July admitting he would end his re-election campaign and pass the torch to her, Maya was one of the first to rush alongside her sister at the vice presidential residence in Washington.

Since then, however, Maya has largely disappeared from public view.

Aside from an occasional sighting during the campaign, including an appearance on stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer, Maya is virtually nowhere to be seen. Sure, she doesn’t have an official campaign title.

“I feel like Maya has been very low-key… extremely low-key,” a Democrat insider told DailyMail.com.

Maybe Maya’s absence isn’t just a precaution.

After all, as a former policy advisor to Hillary Clinton, Maya served as campaign chair in Kamala’s disastrous 2020 presidential bid.

That campaign became infamous in December 2019, two months before voters could even cast their verdict in the first Iowa caucuses. And the blame was placed squarely on Maya’s shoulders.

Democratic sources have confirmed to the Mail that they still hold Maya responsible, accusing her of pushing her big sister’s political views even further to the left than those of proud socialist Senator Bernie Sanders.

Socialized medicine, taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants, banning fracking, decriminalizing prostitution, decriminalizing illegal border crossings and endorsing the ‘Green New Deal’… apparently nothing was too radical for Maya to suggest, or for Harris to consider when it came. to gain support from the progressive left in 2019.

As a Politico article about the doomed presidential candidate concluded at the time, Maya had “been involved in virtually every facet of the race.” Or, to put it another way, it was a train wreck of a campaign and Maya was one of the conductors who derailed the train.

Nevertheless, Kamala’s official campaign manager Juan Rodriguez ultimately bore the brunt of the criticism, even though it was widely reported that he often deferred to Maya.

A New York Times report went so far as to say that Maya remained “unchallenged” while Kamala seemed unable or unwilling to take control.

It wasn’t just disgruntled campaign staffers who felt this way. Some relatives of the sisters also had doubts.

A source familiar with conversations between Harris’ extended family confirmed to DailyMail.com that some had blamed Maya for Kamala’s failure to start in 2020.

But even though Maya was humiliated by this terrible failure, it was certainly short-lived.

One condolence award for Kamala’s aborted 2020 primary bid was her selection as Biden’s running mate. And no sooner had Kamala started measuring curtains in her White House office than Maya was reportedly hard at work behind the scenes promoting her husband, Tony West, for the role of Biden’s attorney general.

Those efforts were ultimately fruitless, but West, 59, is clearly an ambitious man.

Having previously served as a senior official in President Barack Obama’s Justice Department, West is currently on leave from his role as Uber’s senior vice president and chief legal officer. He told staff in an internal email in August that he will instead focus on “supporting my family and my sister-in-law on the campaign trail.”

But that may be an understatement. For he has reportedly become a key adviser to Kamala’s current campaign, a regular presence at Air Force Two and serving as a liaison of sorts between the vice president and a wary business community.

“Campaign leadership is a collaborative effort, but Tony West is probably the most guiding hand there,” Bakari Sellers, a CNN commentator and former South Carolina lawmaker close to the Harris campaign, said last week. “There’s nothing happening in the campaign that he’s not a part of.”

Among the avalanche of questions raining down on presidential hopeful Kamala Harris’ head, one of the most intriguing is this: Where has your sister gone?

Maya Harris and her husband Tony West.

That description sounds remarkably similar to the way Maya Harris’ role in the 2020 Kamala campaign was described (“involved in virtually every facet of the race”).

Someone close to West told the Wall Street Journal earlier this month that he has no plans to join a future Harris administration, but many in Washington suspect Kamala will want to keep her brother-in-law close no matter what.

All of this seems to indicate that Maya, even though she is largely hidden in the shadows, still remains very much in her older sister’s orbit – as a trusted sibling, as the spouse of a close advisor and, no doubt, as a silent influence.

For her part, Maya once said that she has no doubt where the strength of this relationship lies.

“My feeling is that if she is elected president of the United States, I will call her Miss President,” Maya said during a joint interview with her sister in 2019. “Until then, you’re just Kamala.”

But when it comes to official titles, the better question might be: When the Harris sisters sit together in the Oval Office in a few months, what will our new president call sister Maya?