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Kamala Harris reportedly berates campaign manager for advising against attending Al Smith dinner
The Express Tribune ^ | 10/18/24 | The Express Tribune

Posted on 10/19/2024 6:05:35 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly erupted in a furious tirade against her campaign manager, Julie Chávez, this morning.

According to a source cited by X (formerly Twitter) user @joma_gc, Harris angrily berated Chávez for over 30 minutes during a phone call. Chávez had advised Harris not to attend the Al Smith Dinner, concerned that associating with Catholic figures might alienate LGBTQ and pro-abortion voters.

Instead, Chávez suggested Harris send a pre-recorded video message to the 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a bipartisan event where presidential candidates traditionally attend in person. By skipping the dinner, Harris became the first nominee to miss the event in 40 years.

Former President Donald Trump, who attended the dinner as the featured speaker, seized the opportunity to mock Harris for her absence, increasing the pressure on her campaign.

During the heated exchange, Harris allegedly called Chávez "inept," "horrible at your f-ing job," and blamed her for potentially jeopardizing the campaign. Chávez, reportedly in tears, faced harsh criticism as Harris expressed frustration over what she described as “stupid advice.”

Julie Chávez Rodriguez, 46, is Harris' campaign manager, having transitioned from her role in President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at tribune.com.pk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alsmithdinner; campaignmanager; commiela; juliechavez; kamala; kamunism
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To: DallasBiff

“Live by the sword...die by the sword!”


21 posted on 10/19/2024 6:26:43 AM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: DallasBiff

“Since its first dinner in 1946, The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner has raised millions of dollars for New York’s most vulnerable women and children. The Dinner has featured renowned cultural, business, and political figures, including most major party presidential nominees during election years since 1960.”

“Today the dinner is a cultural landmark, a living memorial to one of New York’s most beloved sons, remembered as the first Roman Catholic presidential candidate for a major party and a four-term governor who catalyzed labor reform and social security legislation in America.”

https://www.alsmithfoundation.org/dinner/


22 posted on 10/19/2024 6:26:47 AM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: DallasBiff

It is very obvious Kamala hates Hispanics.

Share this far and wide.


23 posted on 10/19/2024 6:29:22 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DallasBiff

Well, the 92% of kamalas staff that quit over the past 4 yrs would recognize this behavior…


24 posted on 10/19/2024 6:30:37 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: DallasBiff

The Mondale Curse takes hold …


25 posted on 10/19/2024 6:30:54 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: DallasBiff
I would live to hear a political leader or bureaucrat say, "I screwed up, that's something we shouldn't be doing, we shouldn't be in that business,"......etc...

I would regain some respect for them.

26 posted on 10/19/2024 6:31:38 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: DallasBiff

Julie Chávez Rodriguez, 46, is Harris’ campaign manager, having transitioned from her role in President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign.


She did such a good job with Joe. But the problem may be the material she has to work with........................


27 posted on 10/19/2024 6:32:28 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: HamiltonJay

Your sense of fairness is utterly misplaced and misdirected. This is entirely consistent with what we know of her and her vicious vindictive personality on full display in her Trump should never stand behind the Presidential seal again. This is entirely consistent with her utter lack o personal talent in her rise to power. And is entirely consistent with her alarming rates of staff turnover and rumored reasons behind this.

Talk about a murderous tyrant like Hitler. You are staring at one and suggesting like a Bush RINO that we need to be fair and compassionate.


28 posted on 10/19/2024 6:32:40 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: DallasBiff

quote:

“We will not stand for any attacks against Judge Barrett’s faith. Anti-Catholic bigotry has absolutely no place in the United States of America. It predominates in the Democratic Party,” Trump said. “And we must do something immediately about it, like a Republican win, and let’s make it a really big one.”

The event has become a tradition for presidential candidates since Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy appeared together in 1960. In 1996, the Archdiocese of New York decided not to invite then-President Bill Clinton and his Republican challenger, Bob Dole, reportedly because of Clinton’s veto of a late-term abortion ban.

https://abc7ny.com/al-smith-dinner-charity-debate-2020-presidential/6701429/

Because of Covid, the 2020 event was virtual.


29 posted on 10/19/2024 6:34:53 AM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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30 posted on 10/19/2024 6:36:41 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: DallasBiff

I was reading at least two weeks before the event that she had declined to attend.

She had plenty of time to think about it and change her mind.

The final responsibility is hers and hers alone.

Let’s face it. Kommy-La hates Catholics and would never attend an event celebrating a Catholic politician.

But now facing the consequences of her actions wishes to divert responsibility for her actions.


31 posted on 10/19/2024 6:37:53 AM PDT by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: DallasBiff

Julie, the campaign manager (for now) probably thought she was holding one of those exploding phones Hamas was sent, courtesy of the Israeli government.

Expect to hear of the campaign manager suddenly leaving town on ‘a family emergency,’ or her resignation, so she won’t be a further distraction to the Vice President.


32 posted on 10/19/2024 6:39:15 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: DallasBiff

I still don’t get why a person who is running for President of the US NEEDS advice on something like this

I mean, can she BE that out of touch?


33 posted on 10/19/2024 6:40:09 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: DallasBiff

WIKI

She grew up in California in a well-known family of American labor and civil rights activists, the granddaughter of American labor leader César Chávez and American labor activist Helen Fabela Chávez.

From 2008 to 2016, Chávez Rodriguez served in the Obama administration, initially working for the United States Secretary of the Interior and later in the White House Office of Public Engagement. In 2016, She was appointed state director for Senator Kamala Harris and from 2017 to 2019 served on her 2020 presidential campaign. In 2020, Biden, the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, hired Chávez Rodriguez as senior advisor for Latino outreach in his presidential campaign. In 2021, Chávez Rodriguez was appointed to be the director of Biden’s White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. In 2022 she was appointed senior advisor to the president, and, in 2023, as his campaign manager.

Her parents were full time volunteers for the UFWA [United Farm Workers of America]. Rodriguez would often attend labor rallies with her parents and grandparents and assist them in UFWA community outreach activities.

Rodriguez attended Tehachapi High School, and later attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Latin American Studies. During her summer breaks, Rodriguez worked at the AFL–CIO. She also spent summers volunteering with the UFWA, organizing strawberry pickers in Watsonville, California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Ch%C3%A1vez_Rodriguez


34 posted on 10/19/2024 6:40:39 AM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: All

Now THATS news I enjoy waking up to. She should also berate whoever hired Molly Shannon. Talk about stupid.


35 posted on 10/19/2024 6:40:58 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: DallasBiff

I cannot imagine a sentence written about Lee Atwater “crying” after a conversation with his candidate. Or, literally any other campaign manager.

These dems are simply unstable.


36 posted on 10/19/2024 6:41:29 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Kamala is THAT out of touch


37 posted on 10/19/2024 6:41:33 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: DallasBiff

Harris is not capable of making decisions


38 posted on 10/19/2024 6:43:12 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Pontiac
Let’s face it. Kommy-La hates Catholics and would never attend an event celebrating a Catholic politician.

No only that, but she sent a video that was insulting to Catholic. Harris would have been better off sending a short video that was pleasant and presidential, but she has handlers that don't want that.

39 posted on 10/19/2024 6:43:39 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Brian Griffin

If-and that’s a big “IF”-this story is true, it reveals how utterly unqualified Harris is to become the Commander in Chief of the USA!


40 posted on 10/19/2024 6:47:49 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
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