Kamala Harris has shattered yet another glass ceiling: becoming the most unpopular vice president in documented NBC history.
I have no idea about Harris history but this seemed like such a biased headline and gossipy article I did a little digging about who the Washington Examiner is. Apparently it’s a right wing paper owned by a billionaire mega donor to Trump’s campaign.
Makes a little more sense now.
Harris could easily be the most unpopular VP only because she pisses off both sides. To the right she’s a black woman and that’s plenty to hate her. To the left, she’s a statist cop who put plenty of poor people in jail over tiny drug crimes. As the DA of San Francisco and AG of California she played a typical neoliberal role: executing conservative policies with flowery liberal verbiage.
Progressives don’t like her and the DNC doesn’t listen to their progressives often. She’s definitely a sore spot.
Parties can move on from unpopular VPs, see what the Republican Party is doing right now with Pence, but it sure would be better for Democrats and Harris if she was more popular.
What’s crazy is that she barely does anything, just like every VP. You’d think she would get some of that “backup QB” popularity, where every time you dislike what the top guy is doing you think the alternative would have done what you like, and they never have the opportunity to prove you wrong because they don’t do anything.
