Report: Internal Divisions at Kamala HQ Threaten to Derail Her Presidential Campaign
“The Harris campaign has become a diffuse ‘Frankenstein’ team with multiple power centers.”
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As the old saying goes, old habits die hard, and that certainly rings true for the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, which reportedly is experiencing some of the same types of internal divisions and chaos that helped derail her failed 2020 run for president.
As Legal Insurrection readers will recall, Harris dropped out in December 2019, well before the first primary vote was cast. This came after a dramatic freefall in polling numbers that started in mid-summer, something that accelerated after then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) demolished her during the second Democratic presidential primary debate.
Along the way, she blamed her floundering campaign on racism and sexism, basically accusing voters in her party of not being woke enough to pick her as the nominee. Left out of her rant on the subject, though, was the fact that her loss in support was most remarkable among… black voters and female voters.
Fueling her downward spiral were behind-the-scenes campaign woes, as reported by Politico at the time:
….aides said a lack of clarity among staff surrounding the roles of Campaign Manager Juan Rodriguez and Campaign Chair Maya Harris, the candidate’s sister, and inexperience across the organization are feeding a growing sense of indecision and aimlessness inside the campaign.
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The campaign did not start holding regular senior staff meetings until September — nine months after launching — leading to a lack of coordination across departments.
Here we are now some five years later, and it’s like déjà vu :
The good vibes of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign mask tensions among competing factions, as Harris loyalists and Obama alumni are grafted onto what had been President Biden’s campaign.
Why it matters: New people are remaking the campaign on the fly. The result is a large and at times unwieldy team, with internal worries about cohesiveness when inevitable stumbles arise, six people involved in the campaign tell Axios.
- Biden’s campaign was insular, with a few long-serving aides making big decisions. The Harris campaign has become a diffuse “Frankenstein” team with multiple power centers.
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Between the lines: Harris’ team has been wary of making the Biden people feel set aside. But that has led to some internal confusion about who’s in charge.
- “The entanglement of these different entities has led to many people feeling a real lack of role clarity,” one person involved in the campaign told Axios.
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The intrigue: Some on Biden’s team thought many top Obama aides had been second-guessing their decisions for months — and were part of the effort to push the president to end his run for re-election.
One of the many things we’ve learned about Kamala Harris over the last three and a half years she’s been in office has been how heavily she relies on her team to try and make her look like she knows what she’s talking about (obviously, they’ve failed big time on that one).
Exhibit A, from a Washington Post piece in December 2021 amid reports of heavy staff turnover in Harris’ office:
Critics scattered over two decades point to an inconsistent and at times degrading principal who burns through seasoned staff members who have succeeded in other demanding, high-profile positions. People used to putting aside missteps, sacrificing sleep and enduring the occasional tirade from an irate boss say doing so under Harris can be particularly difficult, as she has struggled to make progress on her vice-presidential portfolio or measure up to the potential that has many pegging her as the future of the Democratic Party.
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Staffers who worked for Harris before she was vice president said one consistent problem was that Harris would refuse to wade into briefing materials prepared by staff members, then berate employees when she appeared unprepared.
“It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,” one former staffer said. “With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.”
Further, there was this:
Harris’ turnover in the Senate was on the high end during her four years in the US Capitol’s upper chamber. She ranked No. 9 of 114 senators for highest turnover from 2017 to 2020, the congressional database LegiStorm showed.
Needless to say, for a woman who is infamously known in part for her word salads and policy failures as Biden’s second in command, having a campaign team that lacks cohesion and a unifying vision for how the next two months should go could spell doom for Kamala Harris come November.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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Biden’s revenge from his nap on the beach.
While Darth Dementia checked out years ago, he still had Darth Oblahblah loyalists making decisions, and in their absence, “Doctor” Jill.
You are correct. Darth Dementia is a pretend President who has decided to spend the remainder of his term on vacation or in seclusion.
Camilla is the defacto pResident but still wants to distance herself from what has been termed the “Biden-Harris” Administration for years. In fact, even Dementia called her president Harris on many occasions.
and it’s like déjà vu :
No, no, no. It’s like deja vu all over again.
Either way it’s good news.
a large and at times unwieldy team, with internal worries about cohesiveness when inevitable stumbles arise
Sounds like she needs to impose some of that discipline she was famous for in the CA AG office. Make people stand up when she enters the room, and they should call her ‘General.’ And maybe nobody look her in the eye, so they all know their place. Heh.
One of it matters because Kamleltoe does not COUNT the VOTES!! FKH
I do not want to see her kameltoe- not ever
If Trump’s opponent breaks the shovel she’s using to dig herself deeper into that hole, make sure there’s a spare on hand. And note the locations of the closest Lowes and Home Depot just in case.
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Chairman Xi responds: “NO! More Temu garden trowel, nothing else!”
“Campaign Chair Maya Harris, the candidate’s sister”
Ah! The one with the shakedown-artist husband who “fleeced taxpayers for billions to give to left-wing groups and lawyers” according to MSN?
There’s no better way to seed a Democrat administration!
You can tell a lot from her frequent inappropriate laughter. She knows she’s not up to the challenge. I love seeing leftists start fighting internally. Divide their energy, weaken them further.
Reminds me of the Peggy Lee song, “Send In The Clowns”.
The last line: “… don’t bother. They’re here.”
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ahhhhaaaa
imagine she drops out and they bring in newsome
cause they know what a loser she is and he is worse
Imagine their quandary when they realize it’s too late to get his name on the ballot. Should be fun.
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fwiw – The turnover for president’s , vice president’s and congressman’s staff along with any of the government offices, is very high compared to the private sector, if for no other reason being that it is extremely expensive to work in DC. The usual rate of turnover after two years ranges between 60-70%. , Trumps was around 80%. Harris’s is around 90-92%. Her’s is higher because she is a B—- to work for and because she really isnt all that smart, smart enough to get through law school, yet overall, not very smart.
Excellent news. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of people.
They should have stuck with Biden. They can’t put a cohesive campaign apparatus around her so they’re relying on sycophantic media to carry her water.
like with Joe Biden, it’s just not going to make any difference to those who tabulate the votes
Almost as if she is engineered to fail. Perhaps there is a reason why Pelosi endoresed Harris so quickly and permitted the party process to be bypassed.
Answer this question, “Who does Nacy Pelosi want the ’28 Democratic candidate for President to be, her nephew or Harris?
She hasn’t kept her personal since VP, why would they stay now?
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