Who is the real Kamala Harris? Charlie Spiering’s new book, “Amateur Hour”, dives into details of Harris’ political career and her drama-filled time in the White House. He shared bits of his insight with Mercedes Schlapp on America Uncanceled.
From the start of her career, Harris has relied on the success of others to increase her status. She started her career on the coattails of her boyfriend, Willy Brown, former mayor of San Francisco, who connected her with the elite and wealthy classes in California and secured her six-figure jobs in the state government. Again, in present day, she rode the coattails of President Biden to Vice President after a failed presidential campaign of her own.
Her time as Vice President has been characterized by embarrassing public blunders, turmoil and turn-over among her staff, and strained relationships with the Bidens. She notably has a weak public relations presence, infamously fumbling foreign policy comments and questions about her not visiting the border.
“During the first couple years of their presidency, they sent Kamala out on some of the big issues to sort of help take them off of Biden’s plate, immigration being the number one. Even on foreign policy they sent her to some pretty significant conferences to try to get her some experience on those issues, but each time, she came away as sort of embarrassing herself, embarrassing the president, and that’s why they’ve sort of put her in her safe lane for the duration of the campaign,” explained Spiering.
The campaign has settled much of the drama attached to Harris, but Spiering reveals that many Democrats still do not see her as a leading and rallying figure for their party, and he is waiting to see if she returns to blunder-prone self once the campaign is over.
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