Vice President Kamala Harris has performed so poorly that even her home state thinks she has been terrible.
A poll from the University of California, Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and the Los Angeles Times puts Harris’s approval in her home state of California at just 35%, with 45% disapproving. Harris has dropped slightly from her already awful 38% approval just two months ago. For comparison, GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has 28% approval in the Democratic-dominated state. Harris is barely more popular than a Republican in California.
What’s more, Harris is floundering in the Bay Area, where she started her political career and served as the district attorney of San Francisco. Harris’s approval in the Bay Area is just 38%, well below House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 52% approval.
Harris’s media allies have cried racism and sexism every time her failures have been noticed. This raises several questions: Is California a bastion of racism and sexism? Is the Bay Area home to hateful bigots who want the country’s first black female vice president to fail? Or is Harris simply a terrible politician who failed upward into the vice presidency because of President Joe Biden’s racial and gender quotas?
Harris is a political train wreck. The Democratic presidential nomination was hers to lose in 2020. She entered that race with a strong resume for the diversity-obsessed Democratic Party. Yet she lost it, badly: Harris was out of the race before the first votes were even cast. She was bullied in debates by candidates who understood what they were talking about. Even friendly journalists have given Harris trouble since she became vice president.
It’s no coincidence that no matter how poorly Biden polls, Harris polls worse. Time and again she has proved to be out of her depth, with little to add to the conversation. Her incompetence stands out in an administration that has made incompetence its defining feature. Even Californians, who elected Harris to serve as attorney general and as a senator, can see what a mistake it was for Biden to select her.
