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Trouble in Paradise as Biden Reportedly Frustrated With World-Renowned Orator Kamala Harris

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Is Kamala Harris the worst vice president in modern history? There’s a pretty good case to be made for that assertion given she makes Dan Quayle look like a Rhodes Scholar.

Her governing skills match her orating skills, which it to say she’s terrible in both arenas. Her penchant for using tired cliches and repeating words because she’s so ill-prepared to give public remarks reared its head again recently.

Have you ever known someone who thinks far too highly of themselves and constantly speaks in lofty platitudes in an attempt to prove how smart they are? That’s Harris, and the fact that it continues despite the fact that she’s been through more speech writers than pants suits during her term as the vice president suggests the word salads and faux intellectualism are all her creation.

Now, sources from within the White House are reporting trouble in paradise, revealing that Biden is frustrated with his vice president (The New York Post).

WASHINGTON — Two former White House officials said President Biden is frustrated with Vice President Kamala Harris’ performance — even if he remains committed to keeping her as his running mate in the 2024 election, a new report reveals.

The 80-year-old Biden, who has gone out of his way to praise Harris in recent public remarks, reportedly has griped about his No. 2’s reluctance to take on risky assignments.

“A point of tension in their relationship is that I don’t think that the president sees her as somebody who takes anything off of his plate” due to a “fear of messing up,” one former White House official told Reuters.

Another former White House official told the wire service that Biden, already the oldest-ever president, intends to seek a second term in part because he’s concerned that Harris may not be able to beat former President Donald Trump, who is seeking the GOP nomination.

On the one hand, Biden is obviously right that Harris is a colossal do-nothing who was only placed in her position because of the left’s cynical pursuit of identity politics. On the other hand, Biden himself is a colossal do-nothing who was only placed in his position because of the left’s cynical pursuit of power. So yeah, there are no good guys here.

The problem with putting someone like Harris as the vice president is that her ambition rules. There is no doubt in my mind that she assumed Biden was a one-term president when she accepted the role of sidekick. Typically, you want a vice president who will take the lumps and endeavor to provide real-world experience to serious issues that the president might not have. But Harris’ experience was back-benching in the Senate and being a laughably bad attorney general in California.

Her pursuit of the vice presidency wasn’t about adding anything to Biden’s ticket the way Mike Pence or Dick Cheney did. It was about propelling herself to the presidency, and back in 2020, but she’s managed to completely screw up what seemed like a slam-dunk by being so inept. Even with a press that does nothing but praise her, she has still managed to become one of the most unpopular politicians in history. That takes real skill.

That Biden is blowing her best-laid plan up by signaling a re-election bid that would place him at 82 years old on inauguration day is more than enough evidence of her failure. To coin Harris’ infamous styling, the worst vice president in modern history has made history by making history the way history is made.

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Kamala Harris Gets Primed and Prepped for Failure With Latest Assignment

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When last we left you with Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s second in charge was busy getting booed during an NCAA men’s basketball tournament game and giving a pep talk to the Howard University Bison men’s team that hit maximum cringe levels at various points after their near-30-point first-round loss to top-seeded Kansas.

And now, with the border crisis she was tasked by Biden to handle two years ago getting even worse, and with nothing much to show as a significant accomplishment over two years into the job, Harris is now being primed and prepped for her latest assignment – maybe her toughest one yet, which is to convince young voters and voters of color to reelect the Biden-Harris team in 2024:

Vice President Kamala Harris is preparing to campaign extensively when President Biden launches his much-anticipated re-election bid, despite concerns in the Democratic Party that her performance in office, criticized by some as uneven, has made her a liability.

Ms. Harris plans to visit urban centers of swing states to persuade Black voters, young people and other liberal constituencies to re-elect Mr. Biden, according to people familiar with discussions about her campaign efforts. She will lead the administration’s advocacy for abortion rights, tout the administration’s climate investments and echo Mr. Biden’s pledge to protect Medicare and Social Security.

Some top Democratic lawmakers and donors have been questioning Ms. Harris’s future behind closed doors for months, saying they don’t think the vice president has used her platform effectively, according to attendees at these events.

To be fair, vice presidents are supposed to be the president’s biggest cheerleaders and it’s considered bad form to try and “outshine” your boss in that regard in an effort to bolster your ideological bonafides.

That being said, in the support role she’s in as Biden’s veep Harris has been a miserable failure, with the ongoing border crisis and her continued embarrassment of this country on a world stage being two notable examples.

But beyond that, something else to keep in mind is that during Harris’ failed run for president, a big reason her 2020 candidacy went nowhere fast is because her support among two core reliably Democratic voting blocs – black voters and female voters – evaporated within a few weeks of the first Democratic primary debate in the summer of 2019.

For instance, a post-second Democratic primary debate poll from Quinnipiac University taken in early August 2019 showed Harris’ support among black Democrats dropping from 27 percent in early July of that year to a mere 1 percent. The same poll showed her support among Democratic women drop from 24 percent in early July to just 7 percent in early August.

Biden, the old white guy, did much better than she did in that same August 2019 poll:

Biden gets 47 percent of black Democrats, with 16 percent for Sanders, 8 percent for Warren and 1 percent for Harris;
Women Democrats go 31 percent for Biden, 24 percent for Warren, 10 percent for Sanders and 7 percent for Harris;

While it’s true that that was just one poll, it was an indicator of things to come. Harris’ campaign never bounced back after that and she threw in the towel in December 2019.

And the problem for Harris now as she gets set to go on the road on behalf of Joe is that even though her failure to gain traction in 2019 was a long time ago from a political perspective, she’s still being viewed in Democratic circles as a political liability for Biden in 2024. Not only that, but in addition to having to convince black and young voters to pull the lever for Biden even as his approval ratings remain well under 50 percent, she’s also got to persuade the Democratic faithful that she herself deserves another four years.

That’s gonna be an extremely tough sell for someone with so little in her vice presidential portfolio to brag about.

Flashback–>> Watch: Liz Warren Raises Eyebrows When Asked if Kamala Should Be Biden’s Running Mate in 2024

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Former Indiana Coach Hysterically Mocks Kamala’s Cringe Basketball Speech

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He’s a former player, an assistant coach, a one-time interim head coach for the Indiana University Hoosiers, a former head coach at Bowling Green State University, and now a radio host for OutKick.

His name is Dan Dakich, and he is one outspoken and funny man. Both those attributes are increasingly rare in the world of today’s sports journalism, where often the scores and gameplay are buried beneath constant social justice messaging.

Dakich went on Tucker Carlson’s show with guest host Will Cain Friday night to pillory Vice President Kamala Harris’ pep talk to her alma mater’s team, the Howard University Bison, after they’d just suffered a devastating and lopsided loss. As our Nick Arama reported, the speech was “full-on cringe.”

Dakich agreed, yukking it up with Cain:

Alright, look, we all know that Kamala Harris is a God-awful public speaker. In fact, I always think she’s high on something, I swear to God. But, I gotta tell you, that’s a tough speech, Will, that is a tough speech if you’re a coach. I’m trying to be fair here. That’s a tough speech. If you’re a celebrity, you come in, you’re asked to speak to a bunch of kids that just lost by 28 points.

You know what they want to do, they want to get out of there, but I got to tell you, she’s the worst public speaker I think ever in politics. I almost want to take Joe Biden out of it.

Dakich could barely contain his laughter as he spoke. Watch Kamala’s pep talk and you’ll know why:

Dakich:

She talks to people like they’re in kindergarten. She loves her own jokes. I would be sitting there going man, come on. But I will say this. I thought the Howard kids showed class. I thought they were fantastic. I thought they sat there. They were respectful and I did like at the end that she invited the Howard team to come to the White House. I did think that was cool.

But man, oh man, that’s a bad speaker. How is that a vice president speaking like that?

I’m unable to find the Tucker Carlson Tonight video online, but lucky for you Dakich made similar points on his radio show. Skip past Kamala’s speech to get to Dakich’s punchlines:

“Can you imagine sitting in there? Listening to that idiot?” he says in the clip above. “We are all dumber for having to listen to that… ‘Camilla.’ I apologize to my listeners—right?”

Dakich might want to consider dropping his sports career to become a comedian. Will Cain had some pretty funny lines too:

She speaks to everyone like they’re in second grade or in kindergarten, and you have to wonder what she’s waiting on. It’s like an applause line that she got on Colbert, or an applause line she got during a vice presidential debate that she now thinks is coming at every moment.

And it’s always unearned. It’s missing.

The reason their mockery of Kamala Harris is so funny is that sometimes the only thing you can do is laugh at something, otherwise, you’d cry.

When you watch the child-like Vice President of the United States constantly spew out gibberish and talk to people as if they’re infants, you can’t help but be concerned about the direction of this country—especially since she’s one heartbeat away from the presidency.

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Kamala Booed at March Madness Game, Her ‘Pep Talk’ Is Full-On Cringe

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We covered a bit of a controversy that swept the internet on Thursday — what was that guy doing behind Kamala Harris, who was watching her alma mater, Howard, take on Kansas in Des Moines, Iowa, for March Madness? Harris was at the game with her husband, Doug Emhoff.

Harris was intently focused on the game when it appeared like a guy was sniffing behind her in a Joe Biden-like fashion. My colleague Sister Toldjah explained how this was just an odd camera position and the guy was leaning in to listen/interact with a woman who was standing behind Kamala, which you could see from a wider-shot video.

However, things didn’t go well for Kamala Harris while she was there. First, her team got blown out in the game, 96-68. According to multiple reports, when Kamala’s picture was put up on the Jumbotron during the game, she was booed. Even the AP admitted that the boos outnumbered the cheers.

It matches her unpopularity in polls. It’s one of those things that always enters into the thoughts of people who think that Joe Biden should step down — but Kamala is pretty bad too and there’s even been speculation about her being replaced on the ticket.

But Harris wasn’t finished yet at the game. After her team got crushed, she went down to speak to the Howard Bison in the locker room after the game and gave them a pep talk. If there’s anything that a team doesn’t want to hear after they’ve lost badly, it’s probably Kamala Harris. Why torture them more? But that didn’t stop her.

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1636736201888497670:

“You guys are so good, you guys are so good,” Harris said as she met the team and gave them a round of applause. “You played hard, you played to the very last second, you made all us Bisons so, so proud.”

“You are smart. You are disciplined. You put everything you had into the game,” Harris said. “And you know that’s what it’s about, right. Until the last minute, you guys did that, you didn’t stop until the last second, you did not stop, and that is so inspiring. So you keep playing with chin up and shoulders back because you showed the world who Bison are.” [….]

“You make us so proud, so I know you might not be feeling great right now, OK, but know who you are: You are excellence, you are hard work, you are powerful and you are winners,” she said before offering a tour of the White House to the group of young men.

Harris did that thing where she sounds like she’s talking to five-year-olds again. she always sounds so condescending when she talks to people. These are college men, Kamala. They probably feel disappointed enough, they don’t have to be spoken to like children. Talk about cringy.

The only thing you can say is that she isn’t doing it deliberately to them, she does it to every audience that she speaks to. I don’t know whether she doesn’t know how to speak normally to people or whether she just thinks she’s better/more intelligent than everyone else, but it just comes off wrong every time.

It’s going to be fun to see her in a debate against the Republican candidate, she’s gotten wiped out in debates. That is if they have one and don’t just hide in the basement again.

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Tale of Two Tapes: Video of Kamala Harris During March Madness Game Has People Talking

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As of Tuesday and Wednesday, March Madness 2023 was officially underway, with Texas A&M – Corpus Christi, Pittsburgh, Fairleigh Dickinson, and Arizona State all advancing beyond the First Four games to the main bracket of the NCAA Men’s Division I basketball tournament.

Highlights from Thursday’s games so far include the 13-seed Furman Paladins upsetting the fourth-seed Virginia Cavaliers, the latter of who are no strangers to big-time first-round tournament disappointment.

Something else from the tournament that got people’s attention Thursday was a video clip posted to Twitter of a man standing behind Vice President Kamala Harris, who was in attendance for the Howard/Kansas game in Des Moines along with her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Howard University is Harris’ alma mater.

The video, which has since been deleted by the Twitter user who first posted it, made it appear as though the unidentified man was pulling a creepy Joe Biden move by sniffing Harris’ hair and ogling her at one point during the game.

Other Twitter users picked up the clip and posted it as well:

It wasn’t long after that others were comparing the man to Joe Biden and all the instances where he’s gotten uncomfortably and inappropriately close to the women around him who aren’t his wife. Some even half-jokingly suggested that the man was a “long-lost son” of Biden’s.

I have to admit that when I first watched it, while I didn’t think the man was “sniffing” it did look like he might have been ogling a bit.

But the problem with the “sniffing man” allegation (and the ogling talk) is that the video from a wider angle clearly shows the man was doing nothing of the sort. Apparently, he was tilting his head down to hear what someone shorter (and who was not Kamala Harris) was saying to him during the course of the game.

The person who originally posted the video, conservative commentator Greg Price, did the right thing not long after his mistake was pointed out to him and posted an apology tweet along with the more complete version for his followers to see.

“Would like to formally apologize to sniff man. We got buzzed from the booth and upon further review, it appears he leaned in to talk to someone. The flag has been picked up,” he wrote:

The lesson to be learned here, of course, is to always wait for the long versions of the “too good to be true” videos, because they are often that. Too good to be true.

As for the Howard/Kansas game, the 16-seeded Howard failed to defy the odds, and lost big to the top-seeded Jayhawks 68-96.

Rather fitting, all things considered.

Flashback –>> Watch: Awkward Joe and Kamala Moments From the Golden State Warriors’ White House Visit

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