{"id":933614,"date":"2021-10-28T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=933614"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:59:08","slug":"al-sharpton-complains-biden-is-giving-vp-harris-marginal-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-sharpton-complains-biden-is-giving-vp-harris-marginal-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Sharpton Complains Biden Is Giving VP Harris \u2018Marginal&#039; Assignments"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fal-sharpton-complains-biden-is-giving-vp-harris-marginal-assignments%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=933614&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1126586592-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Left-wing activist&nbsp;Al Sharpton lamented Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 assignments given to her by&nbsp;President Joe Biden, saying the United States\u2019 first black vice president isn\u2019t being used to her full potential despite her underwhelming performance and various gaffes since taking office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to see her be used more effectively, and I think her being in charge of voting was important, but I question her other assignments,\u201d Sharpton said in a Tuesday interview with the far-left website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/is-kamala-harris-being-set-up-to-win-or-fail-rev-al-s-1847937611\">The Root<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p>You might remember, when Joe Biden said that he was going to appoint a woman to run with him and appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court, I challenged him and said, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you have a Black woman run like Stacey (Abrams) or Kamala?\u201d and I had him on my MSNBC show and confronted him. So in many ways, we were the ones who stood up for her to be in that position and we want her to have a strong position, not marginal positions. I think that he did the right thing giving her voting, but I think he should continue to give her more positions of power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sharpton said he would also like to see Biden direct Harris to oversee criminal justice proposals, including the&nbsp;George Floyd bill, which would&nbsp;ban law enforcement from chokeholds and no-knock warrants, along with end qualified immunity for cops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was a prosecutor and a state attorney general, so she knows the criminal justice system and understands both sides. She is also a Black woman in the time of Breonna Taylor and other Black women who have suffered racism, so I think that she should have those assignments and be able to get certain things to Congress,\u201d the longtime activist said.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpton\u2019s comments follow reports revealing that Harris hired two public relations gurus as part of an effort to repair her \u201clong-term planning\u201d outlook.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/harris-messaging-gurus-long-term-planning\"><em>Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11.824390243902\">\n<p><a class=\"autolink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris?utm_campaign=autolink&amp;utm_source=internal&amp;utm_medium=autolink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris<\/a>&nbsp;has hired two veteran communications aides to help finesse messaging and long-term planning after a rocky first nine months in office for the second-in-command. Lorraine Voles, a crisis communications expert, and Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, worked for Harris during the presidential transition and have extensive experience crafting messages from the White House and the corporate world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The hires coincided with Harris\u2019 less than stellar <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/354872\/biden-approval-rating-hits-new-low-harris.aspx\">polling<\/a> numbers, which show the vice president&nbsp;below 50 percent in the wake of her inability to slow the flow of migrants from crossing into the U.S. from Mexico \u2014 A task given to her by Biden in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier October, Harris\u2019 team had to do \u201cdamage control\u201d due to an incident in which she appeared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/01\/kamala-harris-does-damage-control-over-students-anti-israel-genocide-remark\/\">nod in agreement<\/a> and praised a student who accused Israel of committing \u201cethnic genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/30\/harris-office-does-damage-control-over-students-israel-comment-514837\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p>Harris\u2019 senior staff contacted the influential Democratic Majority for Israel to clean up remarks she made Wednesday at George Mason University where Harris was visiting a classroom of students.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe were pleased Vice President Harris\u2019s senior staff reached out to us today to confirm what we already knew: Her \u2018commitment to Israel\u2019s security is unwavering,\u2019\u201d said Mark Mellman, who is president of the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing activist\u00a0Al Sharpton lamented Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 assignments given to her by\u00a0President Joe Biden, saying the United States\u2019 first black vice president isn\u2019t being used to her full potential &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":2315279,"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-933614","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\/933614","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933614\/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=933614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}