Hillary Clinton now advising Kamala Harris how to be popular

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December 26, 2021

Hillary Clinton now 'advising' Kamala Harris how to be popular

By Monica Showalter


If anything out there sounds like Mission: Fail, it's the unpopular Kamala Harris going to the unpopular Hillary Clinton for advice on how to be popular with voters.



Even Democrats can't stand her. It's like Joe Biden going to Jimmy Carter on how to get a rip-roaring economy going. (And that seems to have happened, too).



So here we are, with the mendicant and her mentor -- with cackling that can be heard a mile away:



Vice President Kamala Harris is turning to Hillary Clinton for advice on plotting "a path forward," according to a new report.



The New York Times reports Harris sought out the counsel of Clinton, the first female Democratic presidential nominee and a fellow former U.S. senator, and other women when she came to Washington.



Harris and Clinton speak every few months on the phone, and the two met in the vice president's West Wing office in November, the report said.



That's the Washington Examiner's account. The New York Times account cited put it this way:



Faced with declining approval ratings, a series of staff departures and a drumbeat of criticism from Republicans and the conservative news media, she has turned to powerful confidantes, including Hillary Clinton, to help plot a path forward.



Ms. Harris has privately told her allies that the news coverage of her would be different if she were any of her 48 predecessors, whom she has described as all white and male. (Charles Curtis, who served as vice president under Hoover, spoke proudly of his Native American ancestry.) She also has confided in them about the difficulties she is facing with the intractable issues in her portfolio, such as voting rights and the root causes of migration. The White House has pushed back against scathing criticism on both fronts, for what activists say is a lack of attention.



It calls to mind that Hillary and Kamala have always been close, very close, dating from the days when Kamala learned 'politics' and some other stuff at Willie Brown's knee.



Kamala's original campaign was funded largely by Hillary Clinton's donors, and Kamala herself arguably represented the pocket-lining, finger-to-the-wind Hillary Clinton wing of the Democrat party, as opposed to the rabid Bernie Sanders wing, or the Biden-contemptuous President Obama wing, as Joe Biden chose her to be his vice president. I argued that in 2020 here.



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