As Republicans zero in on the vice president, the White House seeks to elevate her, starting with the debt talks.
, and aides say there is a nuanced but determined effort at reputational reform. Several co-chairs of Biden’s reelection campaign said their response to such attacks is simple: dismiss them as a below-the-belt attempt at distraction and stress the progress the nation has made under Biden and Harris.
“We know that race, ethnicity and sexism, all these things have played critical roles in the politics of this country, and there’s a reason we’ve never had a woman president,” said Rep. James E. Clyburn . Referring to Harris’s skin color, he added, “We’re not going to spend a lot of time apologizing for God’s will. That’s beyond our control. We’re going to spend all our time dealing with Joe Biden as president, with the policies that we think are best for the country.” But Democrats face the reality that polls reflect widespread doubts about Harris. In a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, 55 percent said Harris is not qualified to take over as president. In 2020, 38 percent said she was not qualified to serve as president.that they found Harris’s tenure underwhelming, marked by struggles as a communicator, at times near-invisibility and a naggingly persistent narrative about staff turnover. She is on her second chief of staff, her second chief spokeswoman, and has yet to hire a third communications director after the this year. That is a marked contrast with Biden, who has had a steady constellation of advisers for decades.In a statement, Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign, called Harris “an incredible governing and campaigning partner” and said the Republicans’ criticism was a sign their platform doesn’t resonate with the American people. “Republicans are resorting to the same tired, failed, and false attacks on Vice President Harris that they’ve used over and over again because they can’t argue on the merits of their unpopular, extreme MAGA agenda,” he said. Harris joined Biden’s campaign after four years in the Senate and an ill-fated presidential run, and Republicans say she has never found her footing since then. They have seized on one of the tasks Biden gave her — tackling the root causes of irregular migration into the United States — and ” as she was saddled with an issue that has bedeviled generations of politicians from both political parties.Early in her tenure, Harris stumbled through an interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt as she demurred and then committed to visiting the border, one of several missteps that ricocheted around social media and have been aired repeatedly on Fox News. Her allies insist that those stumbles have been eclipsed by recent successes: She has been the administration’s voice on abortion rights, a key motivator in the midterm elections, and has had successful foreign trips, including a week in Africa thatHarris’s supporters also say the role of vice president makes it all but impossible for her to forge a strong political identity and that Harris’s fumbles, if any, occurred when she was new to the job and faced an unrelenting spotlight.The question for the Biden team is whether it’s too late, analysts said. “We very much deal with sound bites, and her sound bites ended up being Lester Holt and border security … staff turnover, that sort of thing,” said Joel Goldstein,at St. Louis University. “And you don’t have a second chance to make a first impression. Those sort of early sound bites are what continue to define her.” Biden, in a television interview this month, argued that Harris has done far more than many onlookers recognize. “I just think that Vice President Harris hasn’t gotten the credit she deserves,” he told MSNBC. “She was attorney general of the state of California. She has been a United States senator. She is really very, very good. And with everything going on, she hasn’t gotten the attention she deserves.”Biden also pushed back in the interview against the notion that he is too old for another term, saying that over the years he has “acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom.” Biden added, “I’m more experienced than anyone that’s ever run for the office. And I think I’ve proven myself to be honorable as well as effective.”, said the Republican attacks on Harris are far removed from Americans’ daily concerns. “Instead of focusing on the policies, people are focusing on the personalities,” Blunt Rochester said. “And really, the focus of this administration has been on: How do we make the lives of everyday Americans better? How do we make people safer? How do we make sure that they can, you know, afford their prescriptions, their energy costs?” The vice president’s allies note that the “President Harris” line of attack is not new. When Biden chose his erstwhile primary rival as his running mate in 2020, Republicans tried unsuccessfully to paint her as a puppet master who would pull the strings of an aged president.
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