{"id":606347,"date":"2021-07-29T18:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T22:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606347"},"modified":"2021-07-29T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T22:35:29","slug":"unpopular-kamala-harris-could-be-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-democrats-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unpopular-kamala-harris-could-be-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-democrats-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpopular Kamala Harris Could Be A Thorn In The Side Of Democrats\u2019 Midterm Elections"},"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%2Funpopular-kamala-harris-could-be-a-thorn-in-the-side-of-democrats-midterm-elections%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=606347&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 has seen her favorability rating continually drop in the first six months of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, and Democrats may be starting to view her as politically toxic.<\/p>\n<p>Vice presidents typically play a large role in galvanizing support for down-ticket party members during midterm elections, as Vice President Mike Pence&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mike-pence-plans-active-role-in-gops-2018-campaign-1515457704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did in 2018<\/a>. Harris, however, has an unfavorable rating of 46% according to several polls, one of which has her as high as 48%, The Hill reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of right now, I think she has the potential of doing more harm than good for some of these candidates,\u201d one Democratic strategist <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/565336-harriss-bad-polls-trigger-democratic-worries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told The Hill<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cMy sense is she\u2019ll probably raise a lot of money and maybe she\u2019ll go to some specific districts, but they\u2019ll have to be really strategic with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7245253\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7245253\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7245253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230345714-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230345714-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230345714-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230345714-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230345714-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230345714-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230345714-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7245253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 DECEMBER 29: Registered Nurse Patricia Cummings administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at the United Medical Center on December 29, 2020 in Washington, DC. This is the Vice President-elect\u2019s first of two doses of the Moderna vaccine which was given emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration less than two weeks ago. (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe doesn\u2019t have the standing at this moment to go to a lot of these tighter districts,\u201d the strategist added.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden himself has seen a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/joe-biden-approval-rating-putin-summit-g7-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">downward trend<\/a> in polls in recent months, many of the policies he is pushing forward, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/22\/americans-joe-biden-infrastructure-roads-bridges-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">such as infrastructure<\/a>, enjoy wide support among Americans. The same <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/harris-south-america-guatemala-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cannot be said of Harris<\/a>, however, who has been given the reigns on the Biden administration\u2019s two most difficult issues: election reform and illegal immigration. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/22\/not-today-kamala-harris-border-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Not Today!\u2019: Kamala Harris Cracks Up When Asked If She Will Visit The Border)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is coming out and saying she\u2019s doing an amazing job, because the first question would be \u2018On what?\u2019\u201d another person, identified as a \u201cHarris ally\u201d told the Hill. \u201cShe\u2019s made a bunch of mistakes and she\u2019s made herself a story for good and bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, some disagree, arguing that Democrats would be making a mistake to shy away from Harris ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason that Harris is unpopular is that they haven\u2019t been able to make headway against Joe Biden personally, so they really have switched their messaging strategy to focus on Harris and attack him indirectly,\u201d political analyst Rachel Bitecofer told the Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Democrats buy into the old-school political book and make the same mistakes that they\u2019ve made in the past and try to shelf her, hide her, run away from her, all they\u2019re doing is reasserting the right\u2019s negative frame against her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris has seen her favorability rating continually drop in the first six months of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration, and Democrats may be starting to view her as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606347","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\/606347","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=606347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606347\/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=606347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}