Kamala Harris is one of the worst people ever to attain national office, and since this seems to be the week that the mainstream press is turning on her, it seems like a great time to start a megathread.
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Kamala Harris Megathread - Let's hear it for our lovely and gracious Vice President!
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Kamala Harris is one of the worst people ever to attain national office, and since this seems to be the week that the mainstream press is turning on her, it seems like a great time to start a megathread.
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remember when people said biden picking her for VP would win him brownie points with the minorities?
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Administration officials perplexed by Harris' border answer and worry it will overshadow her trip
Vice President Kamala Harris endured a rocky first foreign trip since taking office, with sources telling CNN her two-day swing through Mexico and Guatemala left some administration officials quietly perplexed about what they perceive as her bumpy answers to questions about whether she will go to the US-Mexico border.Several sources say there was a real hope inside the White House that Harris' first trip abroad would be a success, and worry that what looked like ill-prepared answers to that inevitable question would overshadow it.
But officials made clear they didn't view the overall outcome of the trip as driven by a single answer during a TV interview, and the goals of the trip were largely attained. However, they acknowledged it was a sound bite that would likely stick with Harris as she continues to confront the issue at the southern border.
The response came during an interview with NBC's Lester Holt that aired Tuesday in which Harris was pressed about the fact that she hasn't yet visited the US-Mexico border.
"At some point, you know, we are going to the border," Harris said in the interview. "We've been to the border. So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. We've been to the border. We've been to the border."
Holt responded: "You haven't been to the border."
"I, and I haven't been to Europe. And I mean, I don't -- I don't understand the point that you're making," Harris said with a laugh. She added: "I'm not discounting the importance of the border."
The vice president's team, for their part, were frustrated by what they perceive to be questioning driven by Republican attacks falsely painting her as the administration's border czar, rather than focused on the root causes of migration.
As it became clear on Tuesday that her answers were distracting from her broader trip, Harris decided to change her tune -- acknowledging that she would eventually visit the border, without specifying when.
Asked by CNN later that day if she can commit to visiting the US-Mexico border and if she will do it soon, Harris replied: "Yes, I will," adding that she had "spent a lot of time on the border, both going there physically and aware of the issues."
But, she continued, she thinks the country needs "to prioritize what's happening in the border, and we have to prioritize why people are going to the border."
"I think it's shortsighted ... to suggest we're only going to respond to the reaction as opposed to addressing the cause," she said.
Harris' response to NBC raised the issue of potentially overshadowing a trip White House officials saw as an opportunity to display the true intent of an assignment that has been conflated in the weeks since its announcement.
Instead, she was stuck once again dealing with an issue that has drawn repeated GOP attacks -- one some officials said they had assumed she would be able to easily address and move on from when it was inevitably raised.
Harris has been tasked by President Joe Biden to lead efforts to stem the flow of migration from Central America, and has sought to clarify that managing the southern border is not part of that assignment. Speaking to reporters later Tuesday, she said her two-day swing through Guatemala and Mexico was a success.
"Do I declare this trip a success? Yes, I do. It is success in terms of a pathway that is about progress. We have been successful in making progress," she told reporters in Mexico City, before going on to discuss the deliverables after meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Harris' comments come as Republican critics have tried to make her the face of the Biden administration's response at the border.
"I care about this and I care about what's happening at the border. I'm in Guatemala because my focus is dealing with the root causes of migration," Harris said in the earlier interview. "There may be some who think that that is not important, but it is my firm belief that if we care about what's happening at the border, we better care about the root causes and address them."
Republicans took aim at Harris for her answer, pointing to her laugh when answering the question as disrespectful.
"Many Americans living in border communities are afraid to leave their homes. Smugglers are abandoning children as young as 5-years old on the border. Fentanyl seizures are increasing across the country," said Tommy Pigott, rapid response director for the Republican National Committee, in a news release. "Yet, Biden and Harris continue to fail the American people."
Harris is facing the first major diplomatic test of her vice presidency, and her trip to Guatemala and Mexico underscores the Biden administration's heightened focus on Central America and migration from the region.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday she expects Harris will travel to the border "at some point," but said the vice president is currently focused on addressing root causes of migration in Central America.
"What her focus has been, what the assignment is specifically, is to work with leaders in the Northern Triangle. She's on a trip doing exactly that, exactly what the President asked her to do," Psaki said.
Psaki said: "Her focus of this trip is on meeting with leaders, having a discussion about how to address corruption, how to address the root causes, how to work together to address humanitarian challenges in these countries. That's exactly what she's doing on the ground and I'm sure she'll report back to the President when she returns."
The vice president met with Giammattei on Monday, and on Tuesday flew to Mexico to meet with López Obrador.
Harris said Tuesday that she believed the US and Mexico were "embarking on a new era" during her meeting with López Obrador and touted the long-standing relationship between their two bordering nations.
The vice president was expected to focus on economic development, climate and food insecurity, and women and young people during her trip to the region, according to her staff. In Guatemala, the vice president met Guatemalan community leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs and greeted and thanked US embassy staff. In Mexico, Harris was to participate in a conversation with female entrepreneurs, hold a roundtable with labor workers and greet US mission Mexico staff.
Biden tasked Harris with the politically fraught assignment in March, and one official previously told CNN that Harris is "really picking up" from where Biden left off, after he was tasked by then-President Barack Obama to lead diplomatic efforts in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in his last term, following a surge of unaccompanied minors from those countries arriving in the US.
The vice president and her staff have made it clear that they want to focus narrowly on diplomatic efforts in Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, where they believe they are more likely to achieve tangible results in addressing the root causes of migration, like economic despair, according to two White House officials familiar with the dynamic.
This story has been updated with additional developments on Tuesday.
Administration officials perplexed by Harris' border answer and worry it will overshadow her trip
Vice President Kamala Harris endured a rocky first foreign trip since taking office, with sources telling CNN her two-day swing through Mexico and Guatemala left some administration officials quietly perplexed about what they perceive as her bumpy answers to questions about whether she will go...
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It's pretty inspiring that we live in a country where you could get less than 1% of votes in your parties presidential primary, but still become Vice President anyway.
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Univision Says ‘Journalist’ Who Questioned Kamala Harris Doesn’t Work There
A woman claiming to be Maria Fernanda from Univision and said she voted for Harris has prompted a White House investigation.A woman claiming to be a Univision journalist offered praise for Vice President Kamala Harris at a Mexico City news conference on Tuesday, then was denounced by the network as “not part of this media organization.”
The true identity of the woman who gave her name as Maria Fernanda wasn’t clear and the White House said it was investigating. But what was clear is that someone claiming to be a journalist was allowed into a news conference with the vice president and Univision wanted nothing to do with her.
“Let it be clear to everyone that Ms. Maria Fernanda Reyes is not part of this media organization,” Daniel Coronell, Univison’s news president, tweeted.
Red flags were raised Tuesday with the supposed journalist’s question to Harris at a news conference following her meeting with Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“Thank you, Madam Vice President,” the woman began after an announcer introduced her as Maria Fernanda of Univision. “For me, it’s an honor because I actually got to vote for the first time as a nationalized citizen. I voted for you.”
She went on to ask Harris what she would “say to these women, those mothers and also women of color on both sides of the border, farmers, many of them who I see every day as a message of hope, but also as what will you do for them in the next coming years?”
Harris thanked her and answered the question, but an uproar quickly followed on Twitter. Actual reporters from outlets like the Los Angeles Times and Real Clear Politics pointed out the unusual nature of the praise that preceded the question.
Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders said her team would investigate:
Later, another spokesperson for Harris told HuffPost via email that the person “misrepresented herself to the Vice President’s staff as part of Univision’s crew, which was properly credentialed for the event.”
The spokesperson added that the person underwent “the same level of security screening” as others at the news conference “and was never a security threat to the VP.”
As if the whole situation could not get more bizarre, Univision does have a reporter named Maria Fernanda Lopez. That reporter, who appears to be based in Miami, tweeted on Tuesday night that she was not in Mexico at the time and is not the person who made the “unethical comment” to the vice president.
In response to HuffPost’s request for further comment, Univision replied: “The person is in no way affiliated with Univision.”
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Univision are a bunch of La Raza retards. If THEY can't defend this...
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I think it's funny that the CEO of Univsion is named Vincent L. Sandusky. Univision is similar to what happens if you leave food out in a hoarder's apartment.....you get roaches....and by roaches, I mean illegal immigrants. Anyway, like Mexico, Univision is run by white people. That should tell you something.
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The fact people are here in this thread is terrible.
VP Harris told everyone not to come.
VP Harris told everyone not to come.
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“Vice-President.”
I wonder what racial slurs Hillary uses when referring to her.
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If she told everyone not to eat boogers, I would eat one just to spite her.
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Kamala Harris was a pretty based AG, but she's sucked as a national elected official. She should have stuck to her strengths.
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I wonder how much vodka she goes through nightly.
She's sucking as an elected official - she is sticking to her strengths.
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She's a fucking moron. *Joker laugh*
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Willie (har har) Brown aside, she actually WAS a good attorney general. But she's shifted her political opinions and goals since she started really gunning for national power. If she was the old tough on crime Kamala Harris, I'd have less of a problem with her. She's got no consistent viewpoint, which is why the right AND the left (Kamala is a Kop!) both hate her.
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Damn, they aren't going to let her get away with an obvious plant.
That doesn't bode well for her.
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I just hope the people who angled for this to happen are enjoying every second of what their fervent finagling has gotten them.
God only knows why they wanted her in there so fucking badly.
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By the way, if you're looking for crazy people that actually like this bitch, theres a thread on prospering grounds that documents a movement called #KHive
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There is no conceivable way someone with those cold dead eyes and hyena cackle should have ever obtained power. I don't even buy the sexual favors theory given how blatantly sociopathic and unpleasant she is.
No, dear friends. This was a God Hand sacrifice to the top.
No, dear friends. This was a God Hand sacrifice to the top.
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