Sen. Kamala Harris’ 2020 candidacy is dead, and she seems to be the only person who does not know it. Even Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who generally has avoided criticizing or mocking her primary opponents, is laughing at the California senator.
Warren was asked this week in Las Vegas if she supports Harris’ call for Twitter to ban President Trump.
“No,” Warren laughed in response to the question, which was posed by the Washington Examiner’s Joseph Simonson.
For the most part, and with only a few notable exceptions, Warren has played nice with her 2020 opponents. Yet here she is this week in Las Vegas publicly laughing at Harris’ last-gasp attempt to gin up voter enthusiasm for her comatose candidacy. The Massachusetts senator actually laughed!
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 2, 2019
Simonson was referring specifically to Harris’ Oct. 2 letter addressed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
“I write to call your attention to activity that President Trump has been engaged in on his Twitter account, which appears to violate the terms of the user agreement that your company requires all users on the platform adhere to,” the letter reads. “In the past, Twitter has banned or suspended people who have violated its user agreement. I believe the President’s recent tweets rise to the level that Twitter should consider suspending his account. Others have had their accounts suspended for less offensive behavior.”
It adds, “And when this kind of abuse is being spewed from the most powerful office in the United States, the stakes are too high to do nothing. No user, regardless of their job, wealth, or stature should be exempt from abiding by Twitter’s user agreement, not even the President of the United States.”
If nothing else, at least Kamala the Cop can say she now knows what it is like to be on the other end of a snitch line.
More seriously, I cannot help but think that Warren scoffing at Harris’ cockamamie Twitter proposal is karmic retribution for the time the California senator smugly dismissed Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s accurate criticisms of her record as a corrupt law enforcement official.
Remember that?
Gabbard bodied Harris during a primary debate in August with details of the senator’s morally and ethically dubious legal background. Harris tried to laugh it off later by mocking the congresswoman’s poll numbers.
“This is going to sound immodest, but I’m obviously a top-tier candidate,” the senator told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “and so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight because there are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate.”
Harris added, “Especially when some people are at zero or 1%, whatever she might be at. So I did expect that I might take hits tonight. … So, you know, I’m prepared to move on.”
Well, now the California lawmaker is the one who is being dismissed by a top-tier candidate.
Warren polls in second place in a still-overcrowded 2020 primary with 22% of support, according to a RealClearPolitics polling average. Harris, on the other hand, has seen her campaign implode. She is in fifth place with just 4.6%, way, way down from her July high of 15.2%. Harris trails behind even Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of the fourth-largest city in Indiana.
And to think there was a time when news headlines referred to Harris as the “female Barack Obama.”
