This One NY Times Quote On Kamala Harris Will Blow Your Mind

OK, look: We’ve written this story before. But this quote is too significant to be ignored.

Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States is in trouble. Democrats are openly discussing how President Joe Biden plans to drop Harris in 2024 and how they believe Harris will never win the White House.

Three reporters from The New York Times wrote a piece this week. piece Headline “Kamala Harris Is Trying to Define Her Vice Presidency. Even Her Allies Are Tired of Waiting.”

The piece rambles on and on — more than 2,200 words — and of course concludes Harris is pretty darn good, with the last line quoting a supporter saying, “It’s better to let Kamala be Kamala.”

However, there was one passage that was too good to be ignored.

“[T]he painful reality for Ms. Harris is that in private conversations over the last few months, dozens of Democrats in the White House, on Capitol Hill and around the nation — including some who helped put her on the party’s 2020 ticket — said she had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party, much less the country. Even some Democrats whom her own advisers referred reporters to for supportive quotes confided privately that they had lost hope in her.”

Wow. So, as Harris and her team are trying to spin some good news, they suggested the reporters check in with some top supporters, confident that they’d deliver some gushing quotes. Instead, they did just the opposite, saying they’d “lost hope in her.”

That’s just too perfect.

For the Times, this paragraph was also very honest. “Through much of the fall, a quiet panic set in among key Democrats about what would happen if President Biden opted not to run for a second term. Most Democrats interviewed, who insisted on anonymity to avoid alienating the White House, said flatly that they did not think Ms. Harris could win the presidency in 2024. Some said the party’s biggest challenge would be finding a way to sideline her without inflaming key Democratic constituencies that would take offense.”

The Times report was followed by another Washington Post report, which was equally liberal. “Some Democrats are worried about Harris’s political prospects,” The headline.

The Post went to Jacquelyn Betadapur for some reason. “longtime leader of the Cobb County Democrats.”

“People are poised to pounce on anything — any misstep, any gaffe, anything she says — and so she’s probably not getting the benefit of the doubt,” She stated. Many Democrats “don’t know enough about what she’s doing,” She said that she added: “it doesn’t help that she’s not [that] adept as a communicator.”

Over the last few months, Democrats have openly mused about her future, with some liberal news sites and party leaders saying she shouldn’t run in 2024. Some stories suggest that Biden should run again if Harris is elected. Others say that if he doesn’t run, the party should bail on her and pick someone else.

And then there’s the September Survey Morning Consult: Only 28% would vote for Harris in a Democratic primary without Biden, compared to 33% in December 2021.

You don’t win the White House with those numbers. And you don’t win as a Democrat if the Times and the Post are bashing you.

The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Joseph Curl has been covering politics for 35+ years, 12 of which were as a White House correspondent for a national paper. He was the Drudge Report’s fourth-year a.m. Editor for four years. Send tips to [email protected] Follow him on Twitter @josephcurl

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