In a discussion about Vice President Kamala Harris’ stunning surge in the polls last week, podcaster Joe Rogan stated the obvious: “She’s the least popular vice president of all time, and then in a moment in time, all of a sudden she’s our solution.”
Rogan is right. The vice president who has been a national joke for four years, tapped by President Joe Biden because he’d promised his base he would choose a woman of color, has suddenly become a serious contender in the presidential race. And now she’s picked a radical Minnesota governor with a disastrous record to round out her ticket.
What exactly is Harris’ appeal? She is the same unlikable, inauthentic candidate who was forced to drop out of the 2020 Democrat presidential primary before a single vote was cast.
For starters, she’s not Biden, whose implosion at the CNN debate triggered three weeks of despair inside the party, during which many Democrats had resigned themselves to certain defeat. Biden’s decision to drop out of the race was a tremendous relief. Not all party leaders were pleased by his endorsement of Harris on his way out, but after their deliverance from an inevitable rout, they would have settled for Genghis Khan as their nominee.
What would account for Harris’ meteoric rise from political pariah to Democrat star in two weeks? “Kamalamania” is not based on reality; it is purely a media-driven construct. The legacy media have joined with Democrats in a full-court press to catapult Harris over
