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The Biden administration keeps trying to give Vice President
Kamala Harris something to do, but she keeps balking at the
opportunity. She complains about being "sidelined" by the White
House and complains when they give her a job she doesn't want to
do, such as handling the border crisis. It's as if the only
thing she is really passionate about is using the power of her
office to destroy the careers of her political rivals.
Harris was not enthusiastic about being tapped to lead the
administration's response to the Supreme Court decision
overturning Roe v. Wade. The Washington Post reported Thursday
that the vice president "had initial reservations about becoming
the face of the administration's response, worried she could be
pigeonholed on the issue because of her gender, according to
people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to disclose a sensitive dynamic."
Ultimately, Harris signed on to be in charge of the White House
push to protect abortion rights across the country. If history
is any indication, the result will be a half-assed effort that
accomplishes nothing and inevitably devolves into finger-
pointing, recrimination, and anonymous leaks to the press. That
is precisely what happened after the administration tasked her
with leading the charge on the border crisis and on voting
rights.
Harris was not thrilled when Biden in March 2021 put her in
charge of the administration's response to the ongoing
immigration crisis on the border. The vice president "was
resigned to the assignment, but she and her team wanted to make
sure her role was depicted in the narrowest possible way,"
according to the authors of This Will Not Pass.
At one point, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and
Alexander Burns recount in the book, Harris corrected Biden
during a meeting with leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus.
When the president said she would do "a hell of job" handling
immigration, Harris immediately chimed in to say that her role
would be limited to U.S. relations with the so-called Northern
Triangle countries in Central America. During a subsequent visit
to Guatemala, the vice president fumbled a question from NBC
anchor Lester Holt about why she hadn't visited the U.S.
southern border. "And I haven't been to Europe," she cackled.
Days later, Politico published a story headlined, "‘Not a
healthy environment': Kamala Harris' office rife with dissent,"
which detailed the dysfunction in the vice president's office
and was riddled with anonymous quotes from former Harris aides
blasting her leadership style. That was around the same time
Biden tasked Harris with leading the administration's effort to
promote so-called voting rights. A similar fiasco ensued.
Martin and Burns report that after holding a series of initial
meetings with activists, Harris failed to marshal a significant
push for voting rights on Capitol Hill. Months after taking the
assignment, they note, she had not even spoken about the issue
with Sens. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (R.,
Alaska), whose votes were crucial to passing legislation in the
Senate.
Voting rights soon became "another dead end" for the vice
president, who "continued to resist the exhortation to pick some
signature issues, partly out of concern that she would be
restricted to handling subjects closely linked to her personal
identity." Harris preferred to take ownership of "broad-spectrum
issues" that wouldn't be "mainly associated with women and Black
Americans."
This attitude is echoed in her response to being asked to handle
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