Vice President Kamala Harris has been sinking in the polls since her disastrous trip to Latin American countries this summer. Her latest communications gambit will only send those numbers sinking further.
Facing immense pressure from domestic and international media, Harris traveled to Guatemala and then Mexico this June, with Harris famously telling Guatemalan migrants, “Don’t come here.”
Asked at every turn why she was not visiting the actual border on a trip designed to address the border crisis, Harris dismissively told NBC News’s Lester Holt, “And I haven’t been to Europe either.”
Following that trip, Harris began bleeding staff, with one person close to her office telling Politico: “People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses, and it’s an abusive environment.”
Harris has hired two new high-profile communications staffers: a top crisis communications expert and a veteran speechwriter.
Last week, we saw how the new communications team was doing.
NASA released a nine-minute YouTube Originals video titled “Get Curious With Vice President Kamala Harris.” In the video, she is joined by five children in Washington, D.C., for a scavenger hunt to build a telescope.
It’s not so much what Harris says in the cringe-inducing video, but her overacting is straight out of Veep. For example, the exaggerated effort she puts into pointing at her eyes as she says, “You’re going to literally see the craters on the moon with your own eyes, with your own eyes,” is particularly inauthentic.
After the video was roundly panned online (just 2,000 likes on YouTube compared to 11,000 dislikes), we learned that all five of the children were actors who had to audition for the video. “It was pitched to my son and us as a pilot,” one father told the Washington Examiner. “This was a casting call, a very specific one.”
Unfortunately for the very hard-working children in the video, we don’t think this pilot will get picked up. The cherry on top of this story? The Canadian production company that produced the video is called Sinking Ship Entertainment. What a perfect match for Harris.
