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THE DEEP UNPOPULARITY OF KAMALA HARRIS
Powerline ^ | MAY 17, 2021 | JOHN HINDERAKER

Posted on 05/17/2021 3:49:08 PM PDT by Hojczyk

To me, Kamala Harris was one of the mysteries of the 2020 election cycle. She seemed to check a lot of boxes, and I saw her as an attractive candidate who had a good shot–maybe the best–at the Democratic presidential nomination. Instead, her campaign crumbled out of the starting gate, and notwithstanding ample initial fundraising, she didn’t make it to the Iowa caucuses. Despite having a number of superficial advantages, to paraphrase the old joke about dog food, the voters just didn’t like her.

Now, a YouGov poll finds Harris under water, with 41% viewing her favorably and 48% unfavorably. The Washington Examiner points out that this negative perception contrasts strongly with other recent vice presidents. Dick Cheney, Mike Pence and Joe Biden himself, in 2009, all polled quite a bit better at a similar stage.

Harris has never shown much skill or appeal as a politician. Her path to the top in California, essentially a one-party state at this point, was paved by her illicit relationship with Willie Brown. I am not sure what it is about Harris that repels voters, but it should scare the Democrats. It is highly unlikely that Joe Biden will be a candidate for re-election in 2024, assuming he survives that long.

Heck, Tulsi Gabbard destroyed Harris on the debate stage. But in all likelihood, the Democrats are stuck with her. If Biden dies or becomes incapacitated between now and 2024, Harris will be the incumbent. If Biden survives but graciously steps down after one term, it would be fratricidal for the Democrats to try to push Harris aside and nominate someone else. So, for better or worse, the Democrats are probably stuck with her.

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To: boycott

“The only one that like her with her mouth open was Willie Brown.”

HAHA, betcha Willie himself would give you a thumbs up on this one.


61 posted on 05/17/2021 5:43:50 PM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: boycott

Her Law School was UC Berkeley like her parents.


62 posted on 05/17/2021 5:56:14 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: Hojczyk

Kommie Harris will say or do anything it takes to make a buck.


63 posted on 05/17/2021 5:58:50 PM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: Hojczyk

This woman is so damn phony.


64 posted on 05/17/2021 6:00:23 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: billorites

The Cackleho is unpopular? Whoda thunk?


65 posted on 05/17/2021 6:03:16 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: UB355

Anyone in business has had the misfportune of having gthe boss’ whore as a subordinate. She doesn’t work, at least in the traditional sense, and is overpaid.

You are complled to write glowing reviews of her performance as she depletes your budget, and causes you and your staff to spend long hours to make critical deadlines because her work product is simply unusable.


66 posted on 05/17/2021 6:04:05 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: qaz123

Joe Stolen won’t last out the summer. His decline is accelerating.


67 posted on 05/17/2021 6:24:35 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: billorites

Nice...but my guess is PRUNE FACE! I can’t get a pic to copy, but TRUST ME.


68 posted on 05/17/2021 6:29:44 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: Hojczyk

I have a very good memory. They were trying to figure out where to INSERT Harris years ago. I remember when DownLowBarry, sort of newly elected met with Harris in CA. Big Mike was there. Barry said something along the lines of “best lookin’ woman in gubmint”. Very odd. Yeah, that old horn dog Barry, torn between to BEAUTIFUL, BLACK WOMEN. We live in odd times. BTW what happened to Barry’s body man?


69 posted on 05/17/2021 6:38:28 PM PDT by Pigsley
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To: Rummyfan

No way they can push aside the first black female VP
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Only black she has inside her was Willie Brown. She is a dot Indian.


70 posted on 05/17/2021 6:56:24 PM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: Hojczyk

Just think how little girls can look up to her.

“Oh Suzy... If you fall to your knees and bleep bleeps while bleeping bleep bleeps of powerful men you can accomplish so much. Just like Kamala.”


71 posted on 05/17/2021 7:07:37 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: billorites

Thanfully not cankles, but definitely Cackles the Jamaican Witch!


72 posted on 05/17/2021 9:13:49 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: tinamina

Yet she flunked the bar on her first try.


73 posted on 05/17/2021 11:07:16 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: enumerated

I work with people such as you describe. Press them on any issue or Democrat talking point and they’ll either say “Well at least it’s not Trump anymore’’ or just refuse to answer


74 posted on 05/18/2021 12:24:51 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Hojczyk; bitt
***Despite having a number of superficial advantages, to paraphrase the old joke about dog food, the voters just didn’t like her***

Her advantage is that she is destined - the elitist cabal hope - to be our first communist dictator president. She was put in the immediate shadow of another shallow intellect: The Joe (Bitem, not Stalin).

She could never have hoped to attain the WH on her own; thus she is the caboose on the potential Bitem train wreck.

75 posted on 05/18/2021 1:42:16 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: nickcarraway

Former San Francisco Mayor Admits to AFFAIR With Kamala Harris; Boosting Her Political Career

Star Political News January 27, 2019

https://starpolitical.com/former-san-francisco-mayor-admits-to-affair-with-kamala-harris-boosting-her-political-career/


76 posted on 05/18/2021 2:06:16 AM PDT by afchief
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To: afchief
Yes, maybe it helped her getting on some boards 20 years ago. And maybe it helped her get elected San Francisco DA, but it didn't help her get elected Attorney General of California.

Also, if you believe anything that comes out of Willie Brown's mouth, you are gullible and poorly informed.

77 posted on 05/18/2021 2:20:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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SOURCE — FREE BEACON——Kamala Keeps Enemies List of Journalists; Binders full of racists

Vice President Kamala Harris keeps a list of reporters and other political types who might be racist, according to a profile published in the Atlantic on Monday.

“The vice president and her team tend to dismiss reporters. Trying to get her to take a few questions after events is treated as an act of impish aggression,” writes Edward-Isaac Dovere. “And Harris herself tracks political players and reporters whom she thinks don’t fully understand her or appreciate her life experience.”

That list presumably includes the people at Vogue magazine, who managed to enrage libs by putting Harris on the cover earlier this year. It remains unclear why the libs became enraged; Harris was wearing her signature Converse kicks and everything.

According to Dovere’s reporting, Harris judiciously monitors the words journalists use to describe her. “She particularly doesn’t like the word cautious, and aides look out for synonyms too,” he writes. “Careful, guarded, and hesitant don’t go over well.”

Some aides have been “surprised at how much work there is to be done” when it comes to educating Harris on policy issues. Even journalists have grown tired of the VP’s tendency to “retreat behind talking points and platitudes in public.” Dovere writes that, at times, Harris “comes off as so uninteresting that television producers have started to wonder whether spending thousands of dollars to send people on trips with her is worthwhile, given how little usable material they get out of it.”


78 posted on 05/18/2021 2:59:24 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: T.B. Yoits

If she was born in a US state, she is a natural born citizen. Have you ever heard the term “anchor baby”?


79 posted on 05/18/2021 3:05:42 AM PDT by monocle
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To: Hojczyk

Hoes don’t get no respect anymore


80 posted on 05/18/2021 4:10:41 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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