{"id":1453513,"date":"2022-04-25T22:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453513"},"modified":"2022-04-25T22:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:14:39","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-rise-and-fall-of-kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise And Fall Of Kamala Harris"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fthe-rise-and-fall-of-kamala-harris%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=1453513&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\/2022\/04\/Kamala-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>At 57 years old, Vice President Kamala Harris finds herself enthroned as, perhaps, the most powerful woman in the world\u2019s most powerful nation. One would think that such a position could only be occupied by the most adept and cunning politician \u2014 yet the opposite is true of Harris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Harris\u2019 approval ratings began dropping around the summer of 2021 \u2014\u00a0 just a few months into President Joe Biden\u2019s tenure in the White House \u2014 and they have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/kamala_harris_favorableunfavorable-6690.html#polls\"><span>deeply underwater<\/span><span> ever <\/span><\/a><span>since. More recently, Americans have disapproved of Harris by double-digit margins. Additionally, Harris\u2019 office has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harris-deputy-chief-of-staff-latest-aide-to-leave-veeps-office\"><span>shedding top officials<\/span><\/a><span> in reaction to what they describe as a toxic and frustrating work environment. During her public appearances, Harris has continually struggled \u2014 often speaking in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/curl-a-brief-history-of-kamala-harris-word-salads\"><span>word salads<\/span><\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kamala-harris-just-showed-how-unprepared-she-is-once-the-media-starts-asking-tough-questions\"><span>crumpling under the pressure of basic questions<\/span><\/a><span> asked of the current administration\u2019s policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>How did one of America\u2019s worst politicians end up one heartbeat away from the presidency?<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>An Activist From Day One<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span>Kamala Devi Harris was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/08\/11\/kamala-harris-vp-background-bio-biden-running-mate-2020-393885\"><span>born<\/span><\/a><span> in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964. Her father, Donald Harris, is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at the prestigious Stanford University, and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, worked as an Indian-American biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From a young age, Harris was immersed in an activist culture. During the 2020 election cycle, Harris said that she had once been wheeled along by her parents in a stroller during a civil rights march. After she had fallen from the stroller and was separated from her family for a time, the young Harris became distressed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy mother tells the story about how I\u2019m fussing,\u201d Harris recounted, \u201cand she\u2019s like, \u2018Baby, what do you want? What do you need?\u2019 And I just looked at her and I said, \u2018Fweedom!\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though Harris was undoubtedly impacted by strong political influences during her early years \u2014 her parents, after all, met through the civil rights movement \u2014 this particular story seems to be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fweedom-kamala-harris-story-about-demanding-civil-rights-as-toddler-lifted-from-1965-mlk-jr-interview\"><span>lifted<\/span><\/a><span> from an account delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a 1965 interview. The civil rights icon described how he had drawn inspiration from a young girl who, while marching in a demonstration alongside her mother, looked a policeman in the eye and declared she wanted \u201cFee-dom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Massaged childhood stories aside, Harris would eventually carry out the work of the \u201csystem\u201d that Dr. King had often campaigned against \u2014 namely, as a prosecutor.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Systemic Racism<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span>Harris eventually left her home state of California to attend Howard University, an historically black institution in Washington, D.C. After earning degrees in political science and economics, she earned a law degree from the University of California\u2019s Hastings College of the Law. Within a year of graduating, she was tapped as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She spent the next decade working in various public attorney posts while also dating California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown \u2014 a man three decades her senior. Brown <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/08\/09\/kamala-harris-2020-president-profile-san-francisco-elite-227611\"><span>appointed<\/span><\/a><span> Harris to positions on the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the Medical Assistance Commission, which earned her around $80,000 per year in addition to her prosecutor\u2019s salary. Brown, himself, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2019\/01\/27\/willie-brown-kamala-harris-san-francisco-chronicle-letter\/2695143002\/\"><span>admitted<\/span><\/a><span> that he \u201cmay have influenced her career\u201d through the appointments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Eventually, Harris won a competitive election for district attorney of San Francisco in 2004. In 2011, she ascended to the role of California attorney general. During her stint in state politics, Harris built a rock-solid alliance with the abortion lobby. To this day, they continue to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/vp-kamala-harris\/\"><span>shower her with accolades<\/span><\/a><span> such as the \u201cChampion of Choice Award.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Harris\u2019 record as a prosecutor has garnered criticism from both the Left and the Right. Though she has insisted that she will <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/07\/22\/kamala-harris-makes-her-case\"><span>reform the system<\/span><\/a><span> from the inside, Harris has been previously known <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/12\/inside-kamala-harris-polarizing-record-as-a-prosecutor\/\"><span>to throw the book at minor offenders<\/span><\/a><span> while neglecting the pursuit of justice against far more brazen criminals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In San Francisco, Harris earned the ire of police unions for declining to pursue the death penalty for a gang member who murdered an officer; yet, she aggressively prosecuted the guardians of habitually truant students, calling the issue \u201ctantamount to a crime.\u201d She brandished penalties such as $2,000 fines and jail sentences for parents of such students, most of which were primarily from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-kamala-harris-truancy-20190417-story.html\"><span>low-income and racial minority communities<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In one particularly stunning act of incompetence, Harris\u2019 office failed to disclose the fact that a technician had been skimming cocaine from a crime lab and mishandled evidence \u2014 leading to over 600 drug cases being tossed out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nevertheless, Harris soon found herself working at the paragon of political incompetence \u2014 the United States Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Live By Prosecution, Die By Prosecution<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span>Harris was sworn into the Senate on January 3, 2017 \u2014 only days before former President Donald Trump would enter the Oval Office. Harris\u2019 four years in the Senate were thus marked by her opposition to the Trump agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most notably, Harris gained national attention for aggressively cross-examining Brett Kavanaugh upon his nomination to serve on the Supreme Court \u2014 especially in regard to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tsm1GPnlqmU\"><span>Robert Mueller investigation<\/span><\/a><span> and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hNqoweINCEk\"><span>sexual assault allegations<\/span><\/a><span> made against Kavanaugh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/kamala-harris-brett-kavanaugh\/story?id=72331829\"><span>words<\/span><\/a><span> of President Trump, \u201cshe was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing\u2026 the way she treated now-Justice Kavanaugh, and I won\u2019t forget that soon.\u201d President Trump wasn\u2019t the only one to remember.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet, Harris, despite gaining significant attention throughout the Kavanaugh hearing, was among the first to drop out from the primary race \u2014 ironically due to an aggressive stretch of cross-examination from a fellow Democrat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Moments after Harris mercilessly blasted Joe Biden \u2014 her current boss \u2014 for working alongside segregationists in Congress, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4fjA0K2EeE\"><span>called out her record<\/span><\/a><span> as a prosecutor in California. A clearly flustered Harris failed to produce a compelling response to Gabbard. Harris\u2019 campaign never recovered, and she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/12\/03\/784443227\/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race\"><span>dropped out<\/span><\/a><span> two months before the Iowa caucus. She told supporters that \u201cmy campaign for president simply doesn\u2019t have the financial resources we need to continue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, Harris\u2019 career in national politics was just beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>We Did It, Joe!<\/b><\/h4>\n<h4><span>In August 2020 \u2014 after three months of widespread, aggressive racial activism spurred by the death of George Floyd \u2014 the Biden campaign overlooked Harris\u2019 accusations of Biden\u2019s segregationist past and tapped her as his running mate.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span>Without a doubt, Harris checked off many boxes on the diversity roster. As well as being a woman, she is an African-American and an Indian-American. Biden had <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5803677\/joe-biden-woman-vice-president\/\"><span>vowed to select a female<\/span><\/a><span> as his vice presidential nominee, and he saw this promise through by selecting Harris as his running mate. Harris\u2019 relatively short tenure in the federal government balanced out Biden\u2019s decades in the Senate and White House, and her relative youth counterbalanced Biden\u2019s advanced age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When the Democrats defeated Trump and Pence in the general election and began their administration, Harris immediately began taking on responsibilities typically reserved for the commander-in-chief. She is often the first point of contact between foreign leaders and the White House \u2014 most recently, she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/09\/kamala-harris-poland-ukraine-00015873\"><span>traveled to eastern Europe<\/span><\/a><span> as the symbol of American support for Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Harris, however, deeply bungled her role as the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cborder czar.\u201d Under her watch, the United States has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2021\/10\/rubio-to-potus-fire-vp-harris-as-border-czar\"><span>witnessed a record surge<\/span><\/a><span> in illegal border crossings. Additionally, she has only visited the southern border once \u2014 and at a location hundreds of miles away from the heart of the problem. Instead of addressing this issue at the the source of the problem, she traveled to Guatemala and Mexico to discuss the \u201croot causes\u201d of illegal immigration. When questioned on the outcomes of her work, Harris routinely <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-kamala-harris-fumbles-response-to-question-of-when-she-will-visit-bidens-crisis-on-border\"><span>fumbled<\/span><\/a><span> and responded, again, with word salads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Indeed, these bungled public statements have been a staple of Harris\u2019 tenure as vice president.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For instance, she told a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-kamala-makes-woke-joke-at-naval-commencement-she-thinks-its-hysterical-they-dont\"><span>crowd<\/span><\/a><span> of United States Naval Academy graduates last summer: \u201cJust ask any Marine today, would she rather carry 20 pounds of batteries or a rolled-up solar panel, and I am positive she will tell you a solar panel \u2014 and so would he.\u201d In the spring of 2022, she told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kamala-harris-delivers-preschool-explanation-of-space-to-sworn-in-grown-adult-members-of-the-u-s-space-force\"><span>members<\/span><\/a><span> of the United States Space Force: \u201cSpace, it affects us all. And it connects us all. There are so many opportunities in space for our country and for all of humanity \u2014 from science, to commerce, to national security. All of you on this base know the importance of the space systems that you use and operate and how important they are for our national security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Beyond her best attempts to appeal to the public, Harris has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harris-deputy-chief-of-staff-latest-aide-to-leave-veeps-office\"><span>failed to appeal to her own employees<\/span><\/a><span>. She has already churned her deputy chief of staff, director of digital strategies, deputy press secretary, communications director, chief spokesperson, director of press operations, deputy director of public engagement, national security adviser, and speechwriting director.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some cite money, others cite burnout, and more cite <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/harris-turnover-737584d4-6743-4279-af4c-a646ec91bff4.html\"><span>not wanting to be labeled<\/span><\/a><span> as a \u201cHarris person.\u201d In response, Harris has resorted to asking former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10339965\/Kamala-Harris-turned-Hillary-Clinton-help-reverse-drop-approval-ratings.html\"><span>advice on handling poor likability<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Within one year of assuming office, Harris managed to earn herself an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/kamala-harris-approval-rating-historic-low-compared-to-other-vp-2021-11\"><span>abysmally low approval rating<\/span><\/a><span> of 28%. The closest comparison is a 30% approval rating earned by Vice President Dick Cheney \u2014 which was earned toward the end of President George W. Bush\u2019s controversial second term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1481639143859834890?lang=en\"><span>words<\/span><\/a><span> of Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, Harris is \u201cMichael Scott\u201d \u2014 the incompetent boss from NBC\u2019s hit sitcom \u201cThe Office\u201d \u2014 except \u201cnot likable or sympathetic.\u201d It remains to be seen whether Kamala Harris has a future in national politics beyond the Biden administration. For now, it is certainly clear that she has a lot of ground to gain back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 57 years old, Vice President Kamala Harris finds herself enthroned as, perhaps, the most powerful woman in the world\u2019s most powerful nation. 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