It’s no surprise that the Biden administration has low approval ratings, but Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be having an especially difficult time.
In addition to her poll numbers plunging, Harris has lost key workers and made frustratingly little progress in her allocated duties, leading to speculation that she will be replaced on the presidential ticket in 2024.
President Joe Biden has tasked Harris with leading several key initiatives, including voting rights and illegal immigration from Central America.
Critics claim she has virtually no border-related accomplishments worth mentioning, save than a few phone conversations and meetings with Central American leaders.
Even the vice president’s possibly tie-breaking vote on the Democratic Party’s election reform bills, which are now stuck in the Senate, is pointless because two moderate Democrats stand in the way of an effort to repeal the filibuster.
Harris has had to replace a number of top staffers, and her choices for those posts have sparked political reaction of their own.
Jamal Simmons, the vice president’s new communications director, has been chastised for comments that have been perceived as anti-immigrant stretching back over a decade. He apologized on Twitter earlier this month, saying that his social media commentary was snarky, ambiguous, or obviously off the line.