Kamala Harris needs to 'get serious' to improve her weak poll numbers, WSJ columnist says
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How can Vice President Kamala Harris improve her low approval numbers? Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan offered some suggestions this week.
In the piece aptly titled "Kamala Harris Needs to Get Serious," Noonan mused on the vice president’s current predicament. "She came from a generation of California Democrats who never even had to meet a Republican, so great was their electoral dominance. It was too easy for them. She only had to speak Democrat." "The reason people watch Ms. Harris so closely isn’t that she’s a woman of color or a breakthrough figure, but that she could become president at any moment the next three years."
Harris seemed "unprepared, unfocused—unserious" during her visit to Guatemala and Mexico in June as part of her role as White House border czar, Noonan wrote, adding she believes the VP loves the "politics of politics too much" rather than any actual issue.
"She came from a generation of California Democrats who never even had to meet a Republican, so great was their electoral dominance," Noonan wrote. "It was too easy for them. She only had to speak Democrat, only had to know how they think and put together party coalitions. But half or more of the country is conservative or Republican. She never had to develop the broad political talents to talk to them too."