{"id":1166715,"date":"2021-12-28T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T01:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166715"},"modified":"2021-12-28T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T01:19:17","slug":"harris-allies-weaponize-race-and-gender-as-media-sours-on-her-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-allies-weaponize-race-and-gender-as-media-sours-on-her-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Allies Weaponize Race And Gender As Media Sours On Her Performance"},"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%2Fharris-allies-weaponize-race-and-gender-as-media-sours-on-her-performance%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=1166715&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--><p>Vice President Kamala Harris and her allies are claiming that race and gender are the true reasons behind growing criticism of her performance as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is the first woman or person of color to hold the office, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/25\/politics\/kamala-harris-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enjoyed widespread praise<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the media<\/a> for being so. In the year following her and President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration, however, the media has largely soured on her.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has failed to make meaningful progress on voting rights or <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/29\/white-house-kamala-harris-border-czar-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ending the border crisis<\/a>, the two issues Biden tapped her to solve earlier this year, and multiple outlets have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/15\/jen-psaki-kamala-harris-joe-biden-cnn-article\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published<\/a> articles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/14\/politics\/kamala-harris-frustrating-start-vice-president\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">indicating<\/a> that she runs a hostile and toxic work environment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7330491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7330491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 DECEMBER 01: U.S. Kamala Harris embraces U.S. President Joe Biden before his remarks at a menorah lighting ceremony in celebration of Hanukkah in the East Room of the White House on December 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar has also complained about what he sees as Harris\u2019 lack of interest in solving the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say this very respectfully to her: I moved on,\u201d Cuellar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/23\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-biden-administration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said of Harris<\/a> to The New York Times. \u201cShe was tasked with that job, it doesn\u2019t look like she\u2019s very interested in this, so we are going to move on to other folks that work on this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 allies argue both publicly and privately that the attacks on her performance are due to her race and gender, not a lack of progress and complaints from former staffers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is a double standard; it\u2019s sadly alive and well,\u201d former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the NYT of Harris. \u201cA lot of what is being used to judge her, just like it was to judge me, or the women who ran in 2020, or everybody else, is really colored by that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Privately, close allies of Harris reportedly \u201cblame reporters they see as chasing incessantly negative stories and playing into undeniable structural issues of race and gender,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/14\/politics\/kamala-harris-frustrating-start-vice-president\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has a history of defending Harris on the same grounds, with White House press secretary Jen Psaki attributing criticism of Harris to race and gender in November. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/23\/kamala-harris-henry-cuellar-karen-bass-border-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018It Doesn\u2019t Look Like She\u2019s Very Interested\u2019: Democratic Rep Goes After Kamala Harris For Ignoring Him On Border Issues)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think that it has been easier, and harsher, from some in the right wing who have gone after her because she is the first woman, the first woman of color,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/18\/jen-psaki-say-racism-sexism-root-of-kamala-harris-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Psaki said<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not suggesting anyone will acknowledge that publicly, but I think there\u2019s no question that the type of attacks \u2014 the attacks on her that certainly, being the first she is many times over, is part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Harris\u2019 history of chalking up criticism to racial or gender bias predates her entrance to the White House. Harris said her race and gender were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/10\/28\/kamala-harris-on-presidential-campaign-my-race-and-gender-are-the-elephant-in-the-room\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">elephant in the room<\/a>\u201d in her 2019 run for president. She also laid the groundwork for the defense, arguing the success or failure of her campaign would answer the question of whether the U.S. was \u201cready\u201d for a woman of color to be president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially, is America ready for a woman and a woman of color to the president of the United States?\u201d she asked. \u201cWhen there is not a reference point for who can do what, there is a lack of ability or a difficulty in imagining that someone who we have never seen can do a job that has been done, you know, 45 times by someone who is not that person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris and her allies are claiming that race and gender are the true reasons behind growing criticism of her performance as vice president.Harris is the first woman &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"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-1166715","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\/1166715","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\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166715\/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=1166715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}