We reported Earlier This week Biden’s White House has been criticized by both parties for the poor performance of Vice President Kamala Harris since January, and offered predictable lame and boring excuses. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said “sexist” And “racism” in root Most of the criticism is directed at Harris.
Psaki’s answer was given when Harris was attacked by another wave Bad news In recent weeks, including from CNN Report How Biden’s staff allegedly became increasingly frustrated with Harris. In addition, there are reports of rifts between President Biden and Harris. It is said that Grow, even if all this is a bad excuse produce.
In the update of this story, the reorganization of the Kamala headquarters is clearly in progress. Several news media reported that Ashley Etienne, the communications director of Harris Corporation Resign today And will go out in a month:
“Ashley is an important member of the vice president’s team, and he worked tirelessly to advance the goals of this administration,” a White House official told Fox News. “She will leave the office in December to seek other opportunities.”
Etienne is a long-term senior adviser to Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). He served as Pelosi’s communications director twice, sandwiched between the Obama White House.
Vanity Fair Report When Etienne first accepted the job, she only planned to work for one year before taking up other jobs. But considering Harris’ polling numbers and numerous reports of internal conflicts in the vice president’s office, as well as previous reports, the timing of her resignation is very interesting. Former employee How hard is allegedly Harris working. According to reports, her turnover during the 2020 presidential election defeat was also very high.
Back in mid-August, Harris Bring in Lorraine Voles, a crisis public relations expert, politics “Served as a strategist and consultant for Hillary Clinton’s 2006 Senate re-election campaign and 2008 presidential campaign”.A month later, it is Clear Not even That Progressing well.
Obviously, the situation has not improved a little since then, and when I saw Harris at a bakery in New Jersey a few weeks ago, the situation seemed to have reached a low point. Tasting dessert With Senator Corey Booker (DN.J.) and the Department of Homeland Security Sec. Majorcas and other senior members of the government are holding important high-level talks with the President of Mexico on the border crisis, in which Harris was appointed Point someone Biden is in March.
Vanity Fair piece Quoting some former and current Democratic officials, staff, etc. (some have names, some do not), most of them have seized the excuse of “unfairness” to explain why things are so difficult for Harris. The sentence in it impressed me:
The position of vice president is essentially a thankless job, but Harris’ responsibilities have no clear solution: voting rights and border diplomacy. Some people accused the White House of not giving her enough support.
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— Vanity Fair (@VanityFair) November 18, 2021
Okay, just to keep it real, Harris used to be Choose “tick”-Before Biden became the nominee for women of color, the waker on the left exerted strong pressure on Biden, implying that if he didn’t do this, he would be behind the times and not sober enough. , Won’t get enough black people’s approval rate in the general election, etc. If Harris is not selected, it will be another woman of color, such as the possibly failed 2018 Georgia Democratic governor candidate Stacey Abrams or former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice.
But as for “The White House does not seem to be ready to accept someone’s position and make historical significance, especially as an African American woman and Southeast Asian woman”, I’m sorry, but African American/Southeast Asian women Does the president need to go beyond the special handling and instructions normally given to the vice president? No matter who the occupants of the Oval Office are, the position of vice president is almost always the standard fare. They are there to carry out the president’s orders, it can be said that their wingmen, and their occasional “attack dogs”-former Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Joe Biden have done a good job for their respective bosses.
Facts have proved that this “special treatment” may be the problem. Harris has what we should say received”Special treatment“Since her early career as a prosecutor in California, she has received special treatment in other areas. Her biggest defenders, including Governor Gavin Newson (D), have always relied on the fact that she is a woman of color. In fact, it seems that this should be the main qualification for a person to succeed in politics—or a qualification at all.
Of course not, but let us make it clear here. It doesn’t matter that Harris is a woman, what is more important is that she is a woman of color. Even if she is a white man, Harris still has a terrible job. period.
Etienne’s resignation from the VP Harris team is not the first and it will not be the last. But this is Harris’ first senior resignation since becoming vice president. If things do not improve and morale does not improve, then more people are expected to leave the Harris Floating Bridge in the next few months.
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