‘Is VP Kamala Harris Being Set Up To Fail?’: MSNBC Host Blames Biden For Harris’ Tanking Polls

As Kamala Harris’ poll ratings crater to a dismal 28%, the vice president’s apologists have implied that nefarious factions inside the Biden administration have decided she should be “set up to fail” — and they threaten an impending “backlash” among black voters if the White House does not do more to improve her negative image.

“Is Vice President Kamala Harris being set up to fail?” asked MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Tuesday’s episode of “The ReidOut.”

“Republicans are ramping up their disgusting, despicable attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, but that’s to be expected. What about the Biden team? Are they setting her up to fail?” she continued. “Do they have her back?”

Reid complained that the items in Harris’ portfolio “got junked,” although illegal immigration at the U.S. border remains unresolved.

PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor reported that some of the problems are of the vice president’s own making. Employees inside the vice president’s office have said for months that “[i]t’s not a healthy environment, and people often feel mistreated,” according to one individual with direct knowledge of the office. “It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s***.”

Alcindor admitted “there is real dysfunction, some real anger at her from her staff, some real dysfunction within the White House, but also there is this case where people feel like she’s being targeted because she’s [the] first” black woman to serve as vice president.

But, Alcindor then downplayed these concerns. As “a black woman in the workplace … she’s always had these issues of personnel talking out of school,” she said. “We can talk about whether or not these are credible conversations, or if it’s just this issue of a very powerful black woman who is given a portfolio, and she is trying to do her best.”

“She’s all the things Republicans fear,” she said. “As the first black woman to hold this position, as the child of immigrants, that she is the face of the Democratic base, she is in some ways what Democrats talk about when they talk about the future of their party.”

If Kamala Harris fails as vice president, Reid said, many black voters will blame the Democratic Party for allowing her to receive the nomination, instead of appointing her to a lower position that she could have handled — an argument frequently made against affirmative action policies.

“If the black woman gets left holding the bag, they’ll be like, ‘Wow, she should have [been]

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