Successful lawyer, capable politician, female and black with Indian and Jamaican origins and then vice president of the United States of America with a president of over 80 years, all trump cards to imagine for Kamala Harris a bright future as the first American female president. But fate does not seem to want all this to happen because the rising star, from the first week of June, began a political collapse that seems to have no end.
At that time, Harris was preparing her first trip abroad to manage the very difficult migration crisis with Mexico. An important “quasi-president” task. But from that moment the Democrat has strung together a series of gaffes, one above all that of telling of having already been on the border with Mexico when instead she had never been there.
And in Guatemala he made the situation worse by warning all those who were thinking of migrating to the United States without documents not to. “Don’t come, don’t come,” Kamala said, sparking indignation especially in his political base.
Since that time its popularity has started to drop off. Conservative polls indicate that his level of popularity is the lowest for a vice president in over 50 years, while among liberal polls he is “only” 30, again comparing them to seven months in office.
Expectations of her were high, especially considering an 82-year-old president who could only do two years, but the lack of concrete results in the migration crisis has sparked the fuse.
However, according to many observers, the faults are not limited to this defect. Kamala Harris has never given a press conference, save for a few words during a visit to Vietnam and above all she practically disappeared during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Once, quickly, he defended Biden’s decision to end the war, highlighted the way the evacuation operation was taking place, and thanked the allies for their cooperation. In less than ten minutes he solved the matter. Since then, it has shut down public communications.
The feminist world would have expected some stance to be taken in favor of Afghan women but the silence of the vice president was deafening.
Another Los Angeles Times poll revealed that 56 percent of men are opposed to Harris’ actions, versus 44 percent of women. Only the black community seems to support it with 65%.
In social networks there are hundreds of thousands of messages with “sexist, violent and misogynistic attacks against him”.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan has severely punished the presidential couple, and waning support could hurt Democrats in next year’s legislative elections, where they could lose control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
There is still a long way to go before the 2024 presidential election. But the decline in popularity is weighing on both Biden and Harris. And Donald Trump stands on the river bank.