{"id":1028669,"date":"2021-11-18T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028669"},"modified":"2021-11-18T18:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:13:37","slug":"kamala-harris-communications-director-resigns-amid-poor-polling-numbers-criticism-of-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-communications-director-resigns-amid-poor-polling-numbers-criticism-of-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris\u2019 Communications Director Resigns Amid Poor Polling Numbers, Criticism Of VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-communications-director-resigns-amid-poor-polling-numbers-criticism-of-vp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028669&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s communications director Ashley Etienne resigned Thursday as the vice president faces low approval ratings and reports of issues within her office have continued to swirl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAshley is a valued member of the Vice President\u2019s team, who has worked tirelessly to advance the goals of this administration,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/09\/cnn-poll-joe-biden-not-paying-attention-biggest-issues-economy-coronavirus-low-approval-rating\/\">White House<\/a> official said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-comms-director-resigns-growing-criticism-vp\">according<\/a> to Fox News. \u201cShe is leaving the office in December to pursue other opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her position within Harris\u2019s circle, Etienne was a top adviser to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and also served as her communications director. Etienne also worked in former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration, where she worked as a special assistant and White House cabinet communications director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ashley-etienne-8b786249\/\">according<\/a> to her LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation follows ongoing reports of issues within Harris\u2019s office \u2013 and even with the vice president herself. White House press secretary Jen Psaki hit back at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/14\/politics\/kamala-harris-frustrating-start-vice-president\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> report detailing alleged tension between Harris\u2019s office and West Wing aides. Multiple Harris staffers allegedly have begun looking to leave, according to the CNN report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor anyone who needs to hear it. @VP&nbsp;is not only a vital partner to @POTUS but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country\u2014from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband,\u201d Psaki tweeted on Sunday following the CNN report.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.9858156028369\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For anyone who needs to hear it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VP<\/a> is not only a vital partner to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country\u2014from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@PressSec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1460070063025831936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Politico also reported on alleged dysfunction within the office, with one \u201cperson with direct knowledge of how Harris\u2019 office is run\u201d describing the situation as \u201cnot a healthy environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it\u2019s an abusive environment,\u201d the person said according to Politico\u2019s report, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/kamala-harris-office-dissent-497290\">published<\/a> in June. \u201cIt\u2019s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It\u2019s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like shit.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/18\/kamala-harris-southern-border-crisis-joe-biden\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Kamala Harris Says \u2018We Can\u2019t Just Flip A Switch And Make It Better\u2019 When Pressed On Border)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Psaki followed up her defense of Harris with a comment at Monday\u2019s press briefing, where she told reporters that Biden chose the vice president for the position \u201cbecause he felt she was exactly the person he wanted to have by his side to govern the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris told ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/18\/good-week-kamala-harris-approval-rating-dysfunction-good-morning-america\/\">interview<\/a> that aired Thursday that she did not feel misused by the administration, laughing off the subject.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting things done and we\u2019re doing it together,\u201d Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/18\/politics\/ashley-etienne-kamala-harris\/index.html\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is also suffering from poor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/08\/joe-biden-poll-kamala-harris-november-38-28-percent\/\">approval<\/a> ratings. A USA Today poll released November 8 saw just 28% of Americans polled saying they approve of her handling of the vice presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s communications director Ashley Etienne resigned Thursday as the vice president faces low approval ratings and reports of issues within her office have continued to swirl.\u201cAshley is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}