Despite media hype, Kamala Harris lags Biden’s 2020 youth and minority support

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President Joe Biden’s eleventh-hour withdrawal from his 2024 reelection bid has rendered the Democratic Party resigned to the reality that it is stuck with his persistently lackluster vice president. Despite the uphill battle against the ascendant former President Donald Trump, liberal cheerleaders in the press are determined to make Kamala Harris happen. Again.

You may know Harris as the cackling career politician who launched her state career running a full 10 points behind fellow California Democrats in 2010 — Harris won the attorney general race by less than 1 point — and who launched her presidential ambitions by flaming out of the 2020 contest before the Iowa caucuses. But our media betters are attempting to reintroduce Harris to the public for the umpteenth time as a “Gen Z meme queen,” consummate “Black girl next door,” and champion of minority voters everywhere who has gone “cringe to cool in 24 hours.”

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