Vice President Kamala Harris is a problem for the Democratic Party.
She’s already the least popular vice president in modern American history.
White House strategists can’t figure out a way to make her popular, and everyone in the party – whether they’re willing to admit it or not – recognize that she’s a liability.
Harris couldn’t win the party’s nomination on her own for 2020, having lost her own state in the primaries and ending her campaign early.
She enjoyed some brief popularity immediately after Biden won the election in 2020 and after he was inaugurated in 2021, but since then, her popularity has just kept dropping.
But despite all this, 2024 GOP presidential candidate Larry Elder – an African American conservative – told Fox News over the weekend that the party is stuck with her whether they like it or not.
What Elder Said on Kamala Harris
Speaking to Jason Chaffetz on “Sunday Morning Futures,” Elder said that even if President Joe Biden backs out of the 2024 race last minute, Harris will be the nominee.
“If Joe Biden can’t fog up a mirror, the nominee is going to be Kamala Harris,” Elder said.
Elder argued that black Democrats and the party’s general obsession with identity politics are the reason Harris is there to stay.
“The black media loves Kamala Harris,” Elder said, adding that her polling among black Americans is 70% and even higher among black women.
“And don’t forget, the first primary for the Democrats is South Carolina, where 60% of the voters are black and most of those are black females, and they love Kamala Harris and will very much resent it if she is perceived as having been kicked to the curb for a White person like Mayor Pete or Gavin Newsome.”
But Can She Win?
If Elder is right, then the decision won’t be driven by the Democrats’ belief that Harris can win in 2024.
The numbers show that Harris is likely the worst possible candidate the Democrats could put forward against former President Donald Trump – the likely GOP nominee.
Harris, should she be the Democrats’ nominee in 2024, could be Trump’s Hillary. Polls have consistently shown since 2021 that the vice president would lose easily to former President Donald Trump in 2024. A Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released in February found that Trump would take 49% of the vote while Harris would garnet just 39%.
It’s worth noting that, since then, the former president has been indicted on federal and state charges – so it’s hard to tell how that will ultimately play out. With such a huge lead against an unpopular candidate, however, it’s hard to envision Harris beating Trump with great ease.
Jack Buckby is 19FortyFive’s Breaking News Editor. He is a British author, counter-extremism researcher, and journalist based in New York. Reporting on the U.K., Europe, and the U.S., he works to analyze and understand left-wing and right-wing radicalization, and reports on Western governments’ approaches to the pressing issues of today. His books and research papers explore these themes and propose pragmatic solutions to our increasingly polarized society.
From 19FortyFive
AOC Just Proved How Stupid She Is
