Biden is paying the price for his Harris mistake
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President Joe Biden made a promise — and the result of that promise isn't looking great right now.
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Biden vowed that he would pick a female vice president, pigeonholing himself into having limited options for his running mate. There are plenty of women out there who would make great vice presidents. However, Biden selected Kamala Harris, and his party may pay for that. If Democrats suffer politically as a result, it will be well deserved.
Harris is not doing well in opinion polls as of late. She's not as unpopular as, say, former President Donald Trump, but she's also less popular than Biden. Her RealClearPolitics polling average this week shows that she has a 45% approval rating and a 46% disapproval rating. Compare that to Biden himself, who has a 51.3% approval rating and a 44.6% disapproval rating.
The public previously rejected Harris. She ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary and dropped out before the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. She got fewer delegates than former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat, someone who played a role in killing the Harris campaign.
Gabbard exposed how Harris prosecuted people for using marijuana and school truancy, tried to block evidence that would have freed someone on death row, and kept people in prison beyond their sentencing and used them as cheap labor while serving as attorney general of California. That says a lot about Harris's character. Why couldn't Biden have picked Gabbard as his running mate instead?
It's not hard to imagine why the public dislikes Harris. She tried smearing Biden as a racist in the Democratic primaries and laughed it off (like she does with a lot of serious questions) when asked about it at a later date. Biden's offense: He dared to oppose busing that forced children to trek across cities into dangerous neighborhoods where they were subjected to violence and riots in the name of racial equity.
Harris also wobbled back and forth on "Medicare for all," which would be the biggest entitlement program in U.S. history and said that she wanted to decriminalize illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The latter is a policy that would result in more illegal immigration. Now, she's rightfully telling people from countries such as Guatemala not to come to the already overwhelmed U.S. border. Props to her for doing the right thing in the end, but she makes herself hard to trust. Not to mention, people should have little faith in the Biden administration to secure the U.S.-Mexico border since it's not advocating for any serious restrictions on illegal immigration — but does want a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Not to mention, like much of the modern-day Democratic Party, Harris is a pro-abortion extremist. She supports unpopular second- and third-trimester elective abortions, as well as commonsense requirements such as parental notification, waiting periods, and informed consent laws. Informed consent often tells women about all of their choices — including how they can get public assistance to support their child, as well as their respective state's safe haven law, which may not be common knowledge.
If Biden's party suffers because he got Harris instead of an honest centrist, that's on Biden. If he does seek reelection — hopefully, he doesn't — let's hope it's at least with a different running mate.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter forthe New Boston Post in Massachusetts. He is also a freelance writer who has been published in USA Today, the Boston Globe, Newsday, ESPN, the Detroit Free Press, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Federalist, and a number of other outlets.
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This is nothing more or less than a political criticism meant simply to make her unpopular before the next election. There are zero serious allegations against Harris, unlike you know who who had a history of corruption and bad behavior a mile along before winning an election.
Conservatives just want to criticize Harris because she is still a threat to win national office. It is simple as that.
She is neither fit nor qualified to become president
It looks like Biden and his Border Czar moved our southern border again. She's going to Asia next month.
I can just see one of our leftist friends on here getting the "vapors" when you posted that.
Nobody cares because it is not true. Vice President Harris was California Attorney General and a US Senator. She looks pretty fit and her mind is certainly fine. If you think she is unfit or unqualified what in Hell was Trump?
Of a reality show “star” can be president then fucking anyone can.
Biden chose his VP based on race and gender. He said so himself.
Sure did. Problem for the country is he, by far, picked the wrong one.
Yet she is credited with Biden's winning edge.
As did Donald but he spiced it up for evangelicals.
Oh bullshit. Giggle bitch was a pathetically incompetent candidate and is even worse as vp. That dumbass is in wayyyyyyyy over her head.
Trump chose a black woman? Thanks for telling me that!
Bullshit.
Leftists and the uneducated [deleted] voted for Biden simply because he was not Trump.
Camel wasn't even in the decision making.
Odd then that Biden won by 8,000,000 votes!
The black and female vote were Biden's edge!
And so, you are WRONGO! Again...
Yes, extremely odd.
Giggle bitch won zero delegates in the dem primary, zero, her campaign was in chaos and out of money, but yeah, she put biden over the top, lol.
Yes, blacks and women gave Biden his edge!
Butt, they did Gazoo, they really did! Old Joe Biden and a black woman, Kamala Harris, whooped Trump by over eight million votes!
That’s what they say.
That in no way indicates or proves she was any good or effective at either.
She is about as much of a threat to won national office as I am and I am not sure I would even vote for me.
Only if you had also been elected as California Attorney General, to be a US Senator from a major state and gotten yourself elected as Vice President of the United States of America would that outrageous claim not be laughable!
She was not elected to be vice president. She was selected for that position by biden. We no longer vote for VP in this country. We used to but no longer. She was probably chosen because she is even more incompetent than he is and she is insurance for him to be thrown out of office much like he was for obama
I do not engage in such silly quibbling. Kamala Harris is Vice President of the United States.
You are not. She is a way stronger candidate!
That's a strange evaluation after Mike Pence's performance as VP.
She is even worse then he was.
Let's agree to talk about it again in 4 years, lol.
There is currently no basis of comparison.
The far right hated Hillary because Putin hated Hillary.
The far right have been Putin's bitches for many years now.
It's all about the fear.
"She’s not as unpopular as, say, former President Donald Trump"
Moving on to the next article ...
Another piece of shit dropped on the FP.
Most studies into the matter indicate that the VP or VP nominee has little or no impact on the election. People vote for the president and they do so for a whole package of reasons, usually. For the VP to really change votes, you would need two presidential candidates who are a lot more similar than we usually see.
Just curious, Tex - try to put aside that it's not your party or principles, and who would you have picked to be a better choice? Looking back, I thought that picking Sarah Palin was a mistake that McCain had made, and had he chosen someone else I think he might have won.
The headline:
Biden Is Paying The Price For His Harris Mistake
The price based on the article:
ZERO
Wait'll the midterms
So is Pence responsible for the results of the 2018 midterms?
Lol, since when does anyone base their midterm vote on the VP? Shit, when does anyone base ANY vote on the current VP?
3 boring puns within the same seed. @!@
Grow up.