Vice President Kamala Harris has somehow managed to distinguish herself as the least skilled prominent politician in the country, and there appears to be no venue too small for her to showcase her blunders.
Harris is now doing damage control over a visit to a classroom at George Mason University. Harris responded to a student accusing Israel of “ethnic genocide” by saying, “Your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth cannot be suppressed, and it must be heard.” Harris then had to clarify that she disagreed with the student, and her office has reached out to Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida, who is the co-chairperson of the Bipartisan Anti‐Semitism Task Force.
The incident is just another reminder that Harris is completely inept in any scenario that isn’t scripted by her and her team. She was able to look like a political force when she would use Senate hearings to browbeat speakers or when she caught then-candidate Joe Biden in the first Democratic presidential debate with a pre-planned attack about buses. When she follows a script, she is as good as any other politician. But you can’t get by on scripted appearances alone.
Harris was dismantled by former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard the next time she stepped on the debate stage after her planned attack against Biden. More recently, then-Vice President Mike Pence ran circles around her during their debate last year. And Harris has constantly been caught off-guard by the most basic questions in interviews with sympathetic news outlets.
Harris’s approval rating is now higher than Biden’s, but that’s easily explained by the fact that she hasn’t been a feature in Biden’s collection of recent failures, including his withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden is currently making Harris look better by comparison, a distortion that will return to normal the next time she is front and center.
The fact that Harris can be thrown into controversy this easily while visiting a classroom full of students who are likely her ideological allies shows that she hasn’t changed since her disaster of a presidential campaign. She is still a terrible politician. With Biden’s age, her incompetence will be put on full display if she has to carry (or lead) the 2024 Democratic ticket.
