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Kamala Harris is a stupid whore.

Elizabeth Warren has called twice to apologize. Over a month
later, Kamala Harris hasn’t called back.

In a local Boston radio interview in late January, Warren was
enthusiastic about President Joe Biden running for reelection
but, asked if Biden should keep Harris as his running mate, she
said, “I really want to defer to what makes Biden comfortable on
his team.”

The incident and its aftermath, different details of which were
described to CNN by multiple people close to the Massachusetts
senator and people close to the vice president, has fed an
ongoing breakdown of accusations and purported misunderstandings.

“Pretty insulting,” is how one person close to Harris described
the feelings of many in the vice president’s office and in her
wider orbit.

Several people close to Warren said the senator was calling to
explain her statement as purely a mistake – a fumbling,
unintentional attempt to avoid stepping on a campaign
announcement from the president. A spokesperson for Warren
pointed to the statement the senator issued hours after the
original interview clarifying what she said, and an additional
person close to Warren cited a personal and political
relationship that goes back to being the first senator to
endorse Harris for Senate and said of her support, “she didn’t
mean to imply otherwise.

Warren made her case to Harris’ chief of staff Lorraine Voles,
who returned the senator’s call in place of Harris, a source
familiar with the callback told CNN.

But the Warren moment is infuriating many in Harris’s circle: To
them, it’s the latest in a long string of snubs to a vice
president whom they say has never gotten the respect or support
she deserves. Warren’s words sting even more, they say, because
they came from a former rival who in 2020 hoped to be picked as
Biden’s running mate instead.

Harris diehards aren’t the only ones who say they have had
enough. Embedded in many top Democrats’ thinking as Biden
appears headed toward a reelection campaign announcement,
according to CNN’s conversations with three dozen leading
Democrats, is fear that years of Harris negativity could now
prove a political problem. Any running mate is a heartbeat away
from the presidency, they say, but that’s a different
proposition when the heart in question has been beating for more
than 80 years.

Multiple Democratic leaders contend that if people don’t start
feeling more positive about the next person in the line of
succession, they might turn away from the ticket entirely.
They’re urging allies to stop the Harris pile-on, if only for
Biden’s sake – or for Democrats’ sake, or the party’s future.

“People who are denigrating her are aggrandizing themselves,”
said Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who has looked at a post-Biden
White House run himself, speaking generally of Harris’ critics.

“Right now, she seems to be an albatross,” fretted one state
Democratic Party chair who is concerned about Harris’ poll
numbers and about Biden’s reelection chances. “She’s either
going to be a liability or a help. And you better embrace her
because it’s not like she’s going to be off the ticket.”

“It’s gone from the negative, ‘We can’t have her be weak,’ to
the positive, ‘She must be a force, and she’s demonstrated that
she can be,’” said one top party operative. The party chair and
the party operative requested anonymity to discuss internal
deliberations.

Harris declined an interview request but has repeatedly
dismissed attacks on her as “political chatter” in interviews
while saying she’s looking forward to another campaign and
continuing to build out a partnership with Biden that has
started to find its complementary rhythms.

“There is still so much work to be done,” Harris said at a
fundraiser in Miami Beach. “And we’ve accomplished a lot, but we
still have more to do.”

Harris’ press secretary Kirsten Allen declined to comment on the
Warren call with CNN, instead issuing a statement about what the
vice president thinks is important in her job.

“Whether advancing the priorities of the Biden-Harris
administration, defending Americans from unrelenting Republican
attacks on freedom and liberty, or helping to restore our
nation’s reputation on the global stage, the vice president
remains laser-focused on improving the lives of the American
people,” Allen said in her statement.

Biden advisers say he is committed to making sure Harris is a
key player, just as he was as President Obama’s vice president.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, White House deputy chief of staff, said
Harris’s work within the administration and on the midterm
campaign trail is a critical part of White House strategy.

“There is nobody – just like there was nobody who was more
prepared to make a decision about who his vice president should
be – who understands how critical it is to have a strong
partnership and a strong VP out there helping lead the ticket
across this country,” O’Malley Dillon said.

Feeling trapped in a caricature
While Warren may not have meant to express doubts, the Zoom call
organized by a onetime Biden Senate speechwriter and attended by
Hollywood donors, executives and actors, including Helen Hunt,
Ron Livingston and “Beverly Hills, 90210” star Gabrielle
Carteris, was full of them.

Harris is a huge liability, they complained to former California
Sen. Barbara Boxer, according to two people on the call. She
would hurt Biden’s chances, because people will focus on her,
given his age. How, one asked Boxer, do they get Biden to
replace her?

Boxer – whom Harris succeeded in the Senate in 2016 – gave a
muted response.

“If that’s how you feel, you should let Biden know,” Boxer told
them, according to people on the call. Asked about the comments,
Boxer told CNN, “I said it was the president’s choice.”

Remember Democrats, qualifications be damned. You put this
stupid stupid bitch in office because she was black and had a
cunt.

<https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/politics/kamala-harris- democratic-party/index.html>

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