{"id":2229387,"date":"2024-04-24T16:44:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-this-cnn-puff-piece-makes-kamala-harris-seem-lame-and-unqualified\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:47:11","slug":"even-this-cnn-puff-piece-makes-kamala-harris-seem-lame-and-unqualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-this-cnn-puff-piece-makes-kamala-harris-seem-lame-and-unqualified\/","title":{"rendered":"Even in this CNN article, Kamala Harris appears uninspiring and lacking qualifications"},"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\">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%2Feven-this-cnn-puff-piece-makes-kamala-harris-seem-lame-and-unqualified%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=2229387&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>Mainstream journalists are striving \u2063to reshape the narrative for\u200c Democrats in the \u20632024 election \u200bby promoting Kamala Harris.\u200c Despite efforts to enhance \u200bHarris&#8217;s image through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twice-failed-candidate-beto-orourke-considering-run-for-texas-governor\/\" title=\"Twice-Failed Candidate Beto O\u2019Rourke Considering Run For Texas Governor\">positive coverage<\/a> and interviews, doubts persist regarding her \u200dqualifications for the presidency. The media&#8217;s attempts to portray her as\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thank-god-for-andrew-cuomo-a-timeline-of-cnns-adoring-coverage-of-andrew-cuomo\/\" title=\"\u2018Thank God for Andrew Cuomo\u2019: A Timeline Of CNN\u2019s Adoring Coverage Of Andrew Cuomo\">capable leader<\/a> fall short, highlighting ongoing challenges in \u2062boosting Harris&#8217;s public perception.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Another &#8216;rebranding&#8217; effort falls flat <\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t(from Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mainstream journalists are desperate to help Democrats win in 2024. They know that President Joe Biden&#8217;s biggest liabilities are 1) he looks like he&#8217;s about to die, 2) Kamala Harris would become president if that happened, and 3) most Americans don&#8217;t think Harris is remotely qualified to be president.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the journalists have tried to bolster Harris&#8217;s image by writing numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/kamala-harris-history-of-reboots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">puff pieces<\/a> about how the VP is &#8220;stepping up&#8221; or &#8220;hitting her stride&#8221; or &#8220;finding &#8216;her voice.'&#8221; The coverage suggests Harris is always on the verge of &#8220;reintroducing&#8221; herself to an American public whose opinion of her hasn&#8217;t changed since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, CNN published an attempted puff piece about how Harris weathered a &#8220;rocky start&#8221; to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/21\/politics\/kamala-harris-campaigning-biden-2024\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emerge<\/a> as the Biden campaign&#8217;s &#8220;lead prosecutor on top issues.&#8221; It features an interview with the vice president as well as some choice quotes from Democrats who insists she is actually doing a great job. Biden-Harris aides colluded with reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere, who has been writing pro-Biden puff pieces since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2012\/07\/biden-the-next-generation-078873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least 2012<\/a>, and tried their best to portray the VP as a savvy and capable leader.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, they did not succeed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-know-youre-testifying-under-oath-here-cruz-corners-biden-doj-nominee-on-defunding-the-police\/\" title=\"\u2018You Know You\u2019re Testifying Under Oath Here\u2019: Cruz Corners Biden DOJ Nominee On Defunding The Police\">article begins<\/a> by suggesting Harris is the secret genius behind the Biden administration&#8217;s messaging on abortion. &#8220;Aides say she was the one who pushed to explicitly call out former President Donald Trump as responsible for every rollback in abortion rights,&#8221; Dovere writes. Attacking Donald Trump? In an election year? On an issue that riles up their base? Brilliant! Harris even coined a clever new phrase: &#8220;Trump abortion bans.&#8221; Democratic strategists must be kicking themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Given this propensity for creative thinking, CNN laments &#8220;how odd it is that some voters&#8221; are &#8220;inclined toward Biden but are turned off by Harris.&#8221; (Fact check: It&#8217;s not odd.) After nearly four years of &#8220;rebranding&#8221; herself, Harris is dusting off the &#8220;former prosecutor&#8221; image that served her so well in the 2020 Democratic primary. (She dropped out before the Iowa caucuses.) At least she hasn&#8217;t lost her gift for astute, coherent oration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prosecutor approach is really about just deconstructing an issue,&#8221; Harris told CNN, insightfully. &#8220;It&#8217;s presenting and reminding folks about the empirical evidence that shows us exactly how we arrived at this point.&#8221; She is particularly eloquent when attacking Trump for what she describes as his shifting positions on abortion. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of what he&#8217;s doing that is just to suggest that he took a different tact [sic],&#8221; she said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of benefit to being unburdened by ideology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden campaign manager Julie Ch\u00e1vez Rodriguez, a former Harris aide, is just as eloquent when explaining why her old boss is up for the challenge, whatever the challenge may be.\u00a0&#8220;As a former prosecutor, she can prosecute the case on so much,&#8221; Rodriguez told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The article includes anecdotes that are clearly intended to convey a sense of excitement around Harris but actually come across as sad and lame, like a dispatch from the Pete Buttigieg primary campaign. For example, Dovere writes of the &#8220;gym full of high schoolers in Vegas who cheered even more loudly for [Harris] than they did when Marvel actress Xochitl Gomez took the stage first. (&#8216;She&#8217;s killing it!&#8217; an excited 15-year-old in a Barbie-pink denim jacket exclaimed after pushing up to take a photo with Harris as Aretha Franklin&#8217;s &#8216;Respect&#8217; played on the speakers.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least Harris is keeping busy. The article concedes that when left to her own devices, Harris has a tendency to &#8220;let a small circle of friends and advisers into her head, getting into agonizing spirals of what else she should be doing, but also why she wasn&#8217;t doing more, but also what would happen if she did try to do more.&#8221; Not exactly presidential material, in other words.\t<\/p>\n<p>In addition to testing her patented abortion slogans on the stump, Harris recently attended &#8220;a $1.5 million fundraiser in &#8216;Family Guy&#8217; creator Seth MacFarlane&#8217;s tree-filled living room in a Beverly Hills house with a 360-degree view of Los Angeles, and then in front of a luncheon for Black women in power the next day.&#8221; Several months ago, Harris reportedly had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notus.org\/biden-2024\/kamala-harris-israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heated conversation<\/a> about Israel and Gaza over &#8220;dinner with Spike Lee, D.L. Hughley, Fat Joe and others at the Naval Observatory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not entirely clear how voters will respond to this latest rebranding effort. Well, apart from the remarkable consistency of polls that show most Americans don&#8217;t like Harris or think she&#8217;s qualified to be president. Voter sentiment heading into the election is probably best described by Tracey Sayles, a 52-year-old black Democrat in Arizona, where Harris recently spoke at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-the-bidens-got-rich-while-americans-got-robbed\/\" title=\"Donald Trump: 'The Bidens Got Rich While Americans Got Robbed'\">campaign rally<\/a>. Sayles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2024-04-16\/vice-president-kamala-harris-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>Los Angeles Times <\/em>she didn&#8217;t even know Harris was coming to the state. After voting for Democrats in past elections, she&#8217;s undecided this year because Biden &#8220;looks like he&#8217;s ill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a failed &#8216;rebranding&#8217; attempt, mainstream journalists aim to boost Democrats in the 2024 election. With President Joe Biden&#8217;s health concerns and the public&#8217;s doubts on Kamala Harris&#8217; qualifications, the media struggles to reshape the narrative for a potential Harris presidency. 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