Barack Obama joined the campaign trail with Hillary
Clinton in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. Will incumbent
President Joe Biden be doing the same for Kamala Harris? In fact, in no
uncertain terms, I think the message Kamala’s people delivered to
Biden’s staff was that the Delaware liberal should stay the hell away
from her. It’s the final chapter in a long story between the two camps
fraught with reported animosity, where the vice president’s aides
believe that Biden was actively engaging in a campaign of sabotage.
Biden remains unpopular, with Kamala being unable to break free from
the administration she still serves, which has been a sticky point for
her campaign. She can’t define herself, which is bad. Her inability to
say how she’d be different from Joe is equally incompetent. I guess when
all else fails, physical separation is all you can do this late in the
game (via NBC News):
With
just two weeks left in the 2024 campaign, there are currently no plans
for Vice President Kamala Harris to appear on the trail with President
Joe Biden before Election Day, according to three Harris campaign
officials and three White House officials.
Instead, Biden plans
to try to help Harris this week by privately leveraging some of his
longtime political relationships, specifically with labor leaders, and
holding official White House events that highlight his administration’s
record, officials said. His schedule in the final week before the
election has not yet been determined, they said.
The strategy was
crafted with coordination between Harris and Biden aides, who believe
at this time that “the most important role he can play is doing his job
as president,” said one of the White House officials who, like others in
this piece, was granted anonymity to speak candidly.
[…]
It’s
a remarkably diminished position in the 2024 campaign for a president
who until just a few months ago was at the top of the Democratic ticket.
It comes as Harris is trying to convince voters in the final days
before the election that she does not represent a second Biden term and
instead is a candidate of change. Harris aides believe that message
could be undermined by images of her on the campaign trail with the
president.
“Harris has to be establishing herself as a change
agent, and it’s hard to do that with a sitting president at her side,”
one longtime Democratic strategist said.
Harris has struggled at
times to articulate how she would be different than Biden and has tried
in recent days to be more definitive.
“Let me be very clear: My
presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency,” Harris
said Wednesday in a Fox News interview.
Harris never elaborated on how she’d be different. In contrast, Biden
said Kamala would be, though not before saying that the vice president
played a part in every major Biden White House initiative. Both people
are unpopular. Both are unable to communicate with voters. It’s Frick
and Frack and a total horror show.
It’s another sign that
Democrats know they don’t have much going for them. Other than joy and
good vibes, which are artificially induced, thanks to cocaine
(probably).
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