“It’s not as if there was a perfect vision of, ‘Oh we have the best candidate in the world [in reserve].’”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — While Democrats and their allies in the media may have been singing Kamala Harris’s praises in public over the past two weeks, but don’t be fooled. In fact, a new report is already revealing that Harris’s Democrat Party allies are singing an altogether different, much less optimistic, tune in private.
As it turns out, they don’t necessarily like old “Cacklin’ Kamala” any more than the rest of America.Behind the public jubilation over Vice President Harris’s swift rise to become the party’s presidential nominee, Democrat lawmakers are privately saying how anxious they are about her prospects of her defeating former President Trump – acknowledging that she is largely untested as a candidate and faces too many serious challenges.
“She wasn’t a great candidate,” said one Democrat Senator of Harris’s 2020 presidential candidate performance – when she was forced to shut down her campaign and pull out of the Democrat Primary before the Iowa Caucuses had even taken place.
“And she may not be as good of a political campaigner as Biden was in his prime,” the senator added.
The lawmaker argued Harris’s political skills won’t be as crucial to her success now that almost the entire Democrat Party is rallying behind her – and has even nominated her via a highly-controversial "virtual" nomination proceeding orchestrated by the Democrat National Committee.
But, “She’s not campaigning in a primary. She is the candidate,” the senator said.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) – a self-described Socialst-Democrat – says Harris will need to do a lot more to win over his allies and followers, or to win over the blue-collar voters in those states.
They weren’t happy Mr. Biden was shoved off the party's ticket after many of Sander's top advisers – whom moved into the Biden White House following Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign – had already been working to craft a progressive economic plan for the first 100 days of Biden's second term.
“Democrats were in a depression,” said one Democrat senator, who requested anonymity, acknowledging that Kamala Harris isn’t a perfect replacement candidate for Mr. Biden – while arguing that will still be better than Biden would have been.
Of the mood in the Senate Democrat Caucus, the senator said:
“It’s not as if there was a perfect vision of, ‘Oh we have the best candidate in the world [in reserve].’”
Others are willing to admit the obvious – a cackling, California liberal doesn’t exactly appeal to voters in more moderate states.
Does Kamala Harris pose more of a threat to Trump than Joe Biden did?
“Everything I’ve always heard is, she doesn’t have that many relationships in Pennsylvania – and she hasn’t established any kind of identity here.
“California is very far away – it’s seen as very foreign, culturally.”"Obviously it’s a very big difference from Joe Biden.”
Other Democrats told The Hill they know from Harris’s previously failed efforts in the 2020 DNC primaries that she is an awful campaigner.
,” one Democrat reportedly told The Hill.
Others said they believe the blue-collar Pennsylvania voters who had been won over by the Biden campaign may feel deeply upset that Biden has been pulled off the ticket.
They said that while a Trump GOP victory may be far from locked in, having an opponent like Kamala Harris representing the an already depressed Democrat Party sure does help his chances.
And, now Democrats are saying the same thing behind the scenes.
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“Her campaign is not even a week old. There’s an obvious need to be able to get her message out,” he said.
The possibility of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s presence on the ticket as vice president could change things, and the Democrat is seen as a top contender to becoming Harris’s running mate.
Kamala Harris's "Favorable-Unfavorable" Ratings in 5 of the Nation's Key Swing States: (Emerson College July 22-23 Polling was conducted by Emerson College, and sponsored by Emerson College & Nexstar Media.)
- Arizona: 45% favorable; 53% unfavorable
- Georgia: 47% favorable; 51% unfavorable
- Michigan: 47% favorable; 50% unfavorable
- Pennsylvania: 47% favorable; 51% unfavorable
- Wisconsin: 49% favorable; 50% unfavorable
