{"id":1557429,"date":"2022-07-16T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1557429"},"modified":"2022-07-16T07:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T11:34:25","slug":"vp-harris-longest-serving-aide-is-heading-for-the-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vp-harris-longest-serving-aide-is-heading-for-the-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Harris&#8217; Longest-Serving Aide Is Heading for the Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fvp-harris-longest-serving-aide-is-heading-for-the-exit%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=1557429&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>Though we\u2019ve heard one lame excuse after the other from Democrat apologists about why the turnover rate in Kamala Harris\u2019 office <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/04\/21\/the-kamala-express-suffers-another-painful-blow-n554124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seems high<\/a> considering she hasn\u2019t even hit the two-year mark of her time as Vice President, the fact remains that key people on her team in senior leadership roles are <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/brandon_morse\/2022\/03\/17\/ninth-harris-aide-jumps-ship-amid-harriss-plummeting-approval-ratings-n537125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">running<\/a> \u2013 not walking \u2013 to the exits ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The latest announcement on this front is perhaps the most concerning one for Team Kamala. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/15\/rohini-kosoglu-leaving-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>, Harris\u2019 \u201clongest-serving aide\u201d Rohini Kosoglu, who worked as Chief of Staff in her office when she was in the Senate, was part of her failed presidential campaign team, and who currently holds a domestic policy advisor role in the Veep\u2019s office, will be stepping away in August, citing \u201cfamily time\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Her decision to leave comes amid concerns among some Democrats about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/04\/kamala-harris-staff-departures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high turnover<\/a> on the vice president\u2019s team and Harris\u2019s political viability at a time when President Biden is saddled with low approval ratings.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Kosoglu \u2014 who has three sons, ages 9, 6 and almost 3 \u2014 cited a desire to spend more time with her family and dismissed the notion that her departure should be viewed as part of a pattern of staff instability. Kosoglu has advised Harris on a range of issues, including maternal health, reproductive rights, broadband access and voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been six years, and she understands that my family\u2019s very much looking forward to this time, and that I will always be here should she need any trusted information or counsel,\u201d Kosoglu said in an interview. \u201cEven through this time period, she\u2019s been an invaluable source of support and guidance to me to come to this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s a long-running joke in political circles about the use of \u201cneeding family time\u201d as an excuse when it comes to the resignations of political figures and\/or their aides, and it usually revolves around one or more of roughly three mindsets:<\/p>\n<p>1) The person has become persona non grata either in their office due to poor job performance or scandal brought on themselves and has been told they might want to resign gracefully rather than risk public humiliation by getting fired\/ousted.<br \/>2) The person \u201cknows\u201d something but would rather step down rather instead of potentially betraying his or her colleagues.<br \/>3) The person has simply had enough, is fed up with the game-playing, and has decided it\u2019s time to go.<\/p>\n<p>This is pure speculation on my part, but I suspect option 3 above is the primary reason for her departure.<\/p>\n<p>When you consider the emphasis Democrats always put on the \u201chistoric nature\u201d of \u201cthe first xyz to hold this office,\u201d and then consider Kosoglu has been working with Harris longer than anyone else still on left on the team, it strikes me as odd someone like that would want to leave not even two years into such a \u201chistoric\u201d vice presidency. That\u2019s especially significant considering the rumors that are swirling about whether or not Joe Biden will run again in 2024 \u2013 which naturally would put Harris in a position to run for president again.<\/p>\n<p>People who have the degree of loyalty that this woman apparently has shown towards Harris since her time in the Senate don\u2019t typically just up and need \u201cfamily time\u201d when there\u2019s potentially only one more ladder to climb to get to the very top.<\/p>\n<p>And when I say \u201cloyalty,\u201d I don\u2019t mean just loyalty in terms of time but also loyalty in terms of absolute devotion, which we saw here when she first joined the Biden-Harris campaign team two years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Truly honored to join <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamJoe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TeamJoe<\/a>. Growing up, I never could have imagined myself in these rooms. Both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoeBiden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KamalaHarris<\/a>, speak to why this next generation of women and girls can. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pAVPcdWM1B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/pAVPcdWM1B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rohini Kosoglu (@RohiniKos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RohiniKos\/status\/1296801209144217602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 21, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe Kosoglu finally figured out what a PITA Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2021\/12\/04\/the-wapo-stumbles-upon-the-biggest-issue-with-kamala-harris-n486560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is reportedly known<\/a> to be as a boss, and wanted to get out while the gettin\u2019 was good. Maybe it was constantly having to run interference after all of <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/07\/13\/kamala-harris-causes-inner-circle-nightmares-after-latest-wacky-word-salad-springs-forth-n594171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris\u2019 missteps<\/a>. Maybe she didn\u2019t want to be on board the sinking ship. I dunno, but I\u2019m not buying the \u201cfamily time\u201d argument, and neither should anyone else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> And she loses another one:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Scoop: Meghan Groob, Kamala\u2019s chief speechwriter, is leaving less than four months into the job.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dWQ69SFmAU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/dWQ69SFmAU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1548025489700188160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flashback \u2013>><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/03\/22\/report-high-drama-between-biden-and-harris-camps-as-inconvenient-truths-about-kamala-slip-out-n539243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report: High Drama Between Biden and Harris Camps as Inconvenient Truths About Kamala Slip Out<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though we\u2019ve heard one lame excuse after the other from Democrat apologists about why the turnover rate in Kamala Harris\u2019 office seems high considering she hasn\u2019t even hit the two-year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573971,"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-1557429","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\/1557429","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}