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K.H. … Why?

Back last year I asked the same question as many are asking now. Namely, why did Joe Biden choose Kamala Harris as his running mate? 

She directly attacked Mr. Biden during the first Democratic debate … So, of course, the logical thing for him to do was to choose her to be his running mate? Duh!!

The most obvious answer is that he did not choose her, but rather she was chosen for him. But that answer merely begs the question … why did the unknown “they” choose her as his running mate? 

Was it because she was so popular during the primaries? Hmmm.

Recall that Julian Castro, Cory Booker, Deval Patrick, Tulsi Gabbard, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Yang, Tom Steyer, and Michael Bennet had more staying power than Harris in the 2020 primaries.

Perhaps it was because everybody likes her. A true quandary as it appears that hardly anybody likes her, and in her few public appearances as V.P. she does not come off as likable.  Recall her speech at Annapolis earlier this year.

From the N.Y. Post

“Not since President Obama’s speech to graduating cadets of the class of 2014 at West Point have there been remarks to a military academy as atonal as those Vice President Harris just delivered to the midshipmen at Annapolis. Ms. Harris talked to our midshipmen trained for naval warfare of the perils of climate change and the niftiness of solar panels. Not a peep about how Russia, Iran, and Red China are maneuvering for conquest.”

Perhaps she was chosen because of her excellent administrative abilities. Err … not so much as it appears that those under her purview are jumping ship faster than they were on the Titanic. Politico alleges that there is a cone of silence that insulates the VP, built by her top staffers who often ignore input from others or cruelly dismiss it. Two advance staffers bolted reportedly over this dynamic in what appears to be a toxic office environment. Thus far her main duty has been to administer to the border, and thus far it’s a challenge to see how she could be doing any worse.

Occasionally a VP candidate is chosen because he/she would most like secure the electoral college in his/her home state. Not so here, as Mickey Mouse could have been Biden’s VP pick, and he still would have won the state with perhaps the most ill-informed voting bloc in all the US – namely California.

But she was a Senator! True, but a Senator with a totally nondescript record … perhaps reminiscent of BHO.

Could it be that she was chosen so that the Dems would have a black female presidential candidate going into 2024 … but she is not black.

A recent Politico poll released on 7/21/21, demonstrates how Harris is clicking with Americans. Just 45 percent of respondents have a favorable view of Harris, compared to 47 percent who have an unfavorable view. 

More men, at 48 percent, have a favorable view of Harris, compared to the 47 percent who have an unfavorable view. Women, however, are not fans of the vice president, with 43 percent having a favorable view, compared to the 47 percent who have an unfavorable view.

A new Rasmussen poll released on 8/19/21 showed that a majority of Americans, 55%, said that Harris was “not qualified” or “not at all qualified” to assume the duties of the presidency.

As Sonny and Cher sang in 1967, “and the beat goes on,” and I continue to wonder, “OMG! … Why KH?”

8/21/21

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