{"id":1396003,"date":"2022-03-23T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396003"},"modified":"2022-03-23T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:14:36","slug":"exodus-10-key-officials-in-kamala-harris-office-have-quit-in-just-14-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exodus-10-key-officials-in-kamala-harris-office-have-quit-in-just-14-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Exodus: 10 Key Officials In Kamala Harris\u2019 Office Have Quit In Just 14 Months"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fexodus-10-key-officials-in-kamala-harris-office-have-quit-in-just-14-months%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=1396003&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/12\/Kamala-Harris-2-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Working for the vice president of the United States has gotta\u2019 be a pretty cake job. Sure, like any other, there\u2019s pressure, but it\u2019s not like the veep does much of anything anyway (John Nance Garner, who served under President Franklin Roosevelt from 1933-1941, once famously described the vice presidency as \u201cnot worth a bucket of warm piss\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Yet there\u2019s been a steady flow \u2014 a torrent, actually \u2014 of top-level staffers bailing out of high-paying, cushy positions in Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 office. Last week, Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh became that latest to bail, announcing she is leaving the vice president\u2019s office to take a job at the Defense Department, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/17\/harris-deputy-press-secretary-leaving-vp-for-pentagon\/\">according<\/a> to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department? From the veep\u2019s office to the Pentagon? That\u2019s no lateral move. That\u2019s a definite downgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Singh\u2019s departure also means just one of the four top communications positions is left from the original staff on Inauguration Day just 14 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>And consider this: The Post said Singh \u201cis at least the ninth key official to depart the veep\u2019s office since this past summer \u2014 joining director of digital strategies Rajun Kaur, director of advance Karly Satkowiak, deputy director of advance Gabrielle DeFranceschi, communications director Ashley Etienne, chief spokesperson Symone Sanders, director of press operations Peter Velz, deputy director of public engagement Vince Evans, and speechwriting director Kate Childs Graham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But wait: Literally as I was writing this column, a TENTH staffer bailed. Her National Security Adviser Nancy McEldowney, announced Tuesday she plans to leave Harris\u2019 office, and, of course, she handled Ukraine and Russia. Good timing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like they\u2019re moving up to the White House or some other high-level gig. Evans, for instance, quit in January to take on a new job on Capitol Hill, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/04\/kamala-harris-aide-leaves-for-capitol-hill-on-heels-of-other-departures.html\">reported<\/a>. He left to join the Congressional Black Caucus, which is headed by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), which was also clearly less than a lateral move.<\/p>\n<p>McEldowney didn\u2019t even bother making an excuse and doesn\u2019t even have another job, she just said she\u2019s leaving over \u201csome pressing personal matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: They just can\u2019t wait to get the heck out of Harris\u2019 office \u2014 even though she\u2019s only been in for 14 months. If you were job hunting, a prospective employee would most definitely ask this question: \u201cWhy did you leave your last job after little more than a year?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, the core of her office, Sanders and Etienne, bolted. Their exits followed a devastating\u00a0USA Today\/Suffolk University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/11\/07\/biden-approval-falls-38-midterms-loom-usa-today-suffolk-poll\/6320098001\/\">poll<\/a> that showed Harris earning a dismal 28% approval rating \u2014 10 points behind President Joe Biden, who sat at a not-so-pretty 38% approval.<\/p>\n<p>Then there were reports that Biden was not too happy about Harris\u2019 numbers, with one piece saying she\u2019s not even considered to be Biden\u2019s successor in the White House anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another\u00a0report\u00a0said the two top elected officials in the country are at war, prompting desperate Harris aides to defend their bosses, slamming the media for \u201cgossip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s relationship with Kamala Harris is in crisis, with her staff furious that she is being \u2018sidelined,\u2019 while the president\u2019s team are increasingly frustrated by how she is playing with American public,\u201d the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10202201\/Tensions-frustrations-rise-Kamala-Harris-Joe-Biden.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cHarris\u2019 approval rating has plunged even further than Biden\u2019s in recent months, with rumors swirling that the president is considering appointing her to the Supreme Court as a backdoor method of selecting a new VP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But apparently Harris wasn\u2019t the black woman Biden was looking for to appoint to the high court.<\/p>\n<p>The reports about a dysfunctional office emerged first on CNN. \u201cMany current and former West Wing aides say that Vice President Kamala Harris is not being adequately prepared or positioned, and instead is being sidelined, causing frustration among staffers,\u201d CNN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/14\/politics\/kamala-harris-frustrating-start-vice-president\/index.html\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterviews with nearly three dozen former and current Harris aides, administration officials, Democratic operatives, donors and outside advisers \u2014 who spoke extensively to CNN \u2014 reveal a complex reality inside the White House. Many in the vice president\u2019s circle fume that she\u2019s not being adequately prepared or positioned, and instead is being sidelined. The vice president herself has told several confidants she feels constrained in what she\u2019s able to do politically. And those around her remain wary of even hinting at future political ambitions, with Biden\u2019s team highly attuned to signs of disloyalty, particularly from the vice president,\u201d CNN said.<\/p>\n<p>And an unnamed staffer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/04\/kamala-harris-staff-departures\/\">told<\/a> The Washington Post, \u201cWith Kamala, you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you\u2019re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it\u2019s not really clear why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One thing IS clear though: People just keep quitting their high-paying, cushy jobs to get away from Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Where there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@dailywire.com and on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephcurl\">@JosephCurl<\/a>. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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