Vice President Kamala Harris’ team canceled press access to her remarks to US troops at Pearl Harbor on Thursday — surely because it feared yet another disaster for the veep at the site of a terrible attack on America, the same day as the horrors in Kabul.
Harris is just too prone to verbal fumbles that pour more fuel on the Biden administration’s fires.
Just the week before, Harris broke into a bizarre cackle when reporters asked about the early stages of the Afghan crisis. And that’s hardly her only nails-on-chalkboard moment.
For example, when NBC’s Lester Holt called her out for failing to go to the US-Mexico border when she’s supposed to be the administration pointwoman on the border crisis, Harris again weirdly laughed as she countered, “And I haven’t been to Europe!,” as if that had a thing to do with it.
Earlier, during last year’s campaign, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell asked Harris if she brought a “socialist or progressive perspective” to the Democratic ticket and got her own burst of the Kamala cackle.
Then the candidate answered, “No, no!,” followed by a nervous-laughter-filled ramble: “It is the perspective of — of a woman who grew up a black child in America, who was also a prosecutor, who also has a mother who arrived here at the age of 19 from India. Who also, you know, likes hip-hop. Like, what do you wanna know?”
That followed her cringe-inducing interview with Charlamagne tha God during the Democratic primaries. The “Breakfast Club” host asked if the ex-prosecutor opposed legalizing pot; she replied, “Half my family’s from Jamaica. Are you kidding me? Hahahahahaha.”
She told Charlamagne she’d toked up in college while listening to Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur — yet she graduated in 1986, years before either artist hit the scene.
Even the high point of her primary campaign proved hollow, when she blasted Joe Biden’s 1970s opposition to forced busing with her “That little girl was me” memory of waiting for her own bus — when it turned out she was in a voluntary busing program.
Bottom line: Harris can barely get through a friendly interview without blatant insincerity — she’s as fake as her laugh.
In a weird way, all this makes her a priceless asset to President Biden: Any time talk starts about, say, invoking the 25th Amendment to force him to step aside because of his apparent mental woes, people consider the fact that she’d be the one to take over.
Harris’ incompetence, in short, is Biden’s job security.