Reports suggest Harris is having trouble finding a role in the administration, or setting herself above the competition for the next primary
Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images The palace intrigue industrial complex, largely dormant since the inauguration, began churning again this weekend regarding the current ambitions and future employment of Vice-President Kamala Harris.
It began pretty favorably on Friday, when the New York Times reported on how the VP’s frequent diplomatic trips abroad function as a chance “to cement the global profile of the vice president, who has demonstrated aspirations for higher office.” But things got worse from there. On Sunday, Politico provided a dispatch from the cold war between 2020 Democrats who are taking early steps toward a second run should President Joe Biden decide to retire in 2024 at the age of 82.
But less than a year into her time in the executive branch, more than a dozen Democratic officials — some affiliated with potential candidates — say that Harris is currently not scaring any prospective opponents. According to a CNN report on Sunday, Harris is also having a difficult time charting a course in Washington:
Worn out by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus, key West Wing aides have largely thrown up their hands at Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff – deciding there simply isn’t time to deal with them right now, especially at a moment when President Joe Biden faces quickly multiplying legislative and political concerns.The exasperation runs both ways.
It’s not a great sign when vice-presidential aides reportedly “pass around a recent Onion story mocking her lack of more substantive work.” But it’s far from the unprecedented hostility seen in the final days of the Trump White House: At least on Sunday, minutes after CNN published its report of dysfunction, White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted in defense of Harris “for anyone who needs to hear it.
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