Kamala Harris has shattered yet another glass ceiling: becoming the most unpopular vice president in documented NBC history.
According to the pollsters at the Peacock network, nearly half of all voters view Harris negatively, with just 32% approving. Considering the context of her predecessors' performance, Harris has no excuse.Mike Pence managed to survive the entire coronavirus crisis without hitting Harris's net negative 17 approval rating. Despite Democrats getting clobbered in the 2010 midterm elections, then-Vice President Joe Biden broke even in the NBC poll, with a plus 1% approval rating.
Harris may blame her party's razor-thin control of the Senate for keeping her physically in the nation's capital. She is indeed one vote away from breaking more ties than any other veep in history. But when Biden sends Harris abroad, she achieves nothing but providing the Republican National Committee another 24 hours of attack ads on Twitter.
It is not simply that Harris is a gaffe-prone prosecutor and thus a paper tiger not remotely ready for prime time. Harris as the understudy for the first octogenarian to occupy the Oval never made sense considering the practical uses of the office of the vice presidency. Pence, Biden, Cheney, and Al Gore all served essentially as liaisons to the Hill, helping out bosses who were all relatively new to the Swamp, having served as governors or, in the case of Barack Obama, fewer than three years in the Senate. Sure, those other four running mates did provide some perceived"electability" for their electoral tickets.
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