It has become increasingly obvious that Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris is attempting to distance herself from lame-duck President Joe Biden’s administration.
Harris has been reluctant to do so until now, as Election Day quickly approaches.
As the second in command of the administration, Harris has repeatedly conveyed that she has been part of the decision-making process.
She has even said that she doesn’t disagree with anything Biden has done during his term.
However, she seems to be changing her mind now, Breitbart reported.
Harris is now seeking to distance herself from Biden just days before voters cast their ballots.
NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez noted her change of heart on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on Monday.
Gutierrez said Harris “has tried to distance herself from the Biden-Harris administration, at least a little bit, in the last several days.”
Perhaps this points to a new sense of desperation as she willingly humiliates the man who plucked her out of obscurity in the first place.
The powers that be installed Harris as the new nominee after Biden crashed and burned during a debate performance in June.
Harris was later undemocratically crowned as the Democrat nominee in August.
Since then, her campaign has slowly crumbled, mostly due to a lack of transparency about her policies.
If Harris wanted to distance herself from the administration she served in for the prior three years, she’d have to admit that it was a failure.
If she said she agreed with everything Biden did, she would wear his policies like an albatross around her neck.
The vice president initially chose the latter to avoid making waves.
However, as Gutierrez pointed out, that has changed as Harris gets desperate in the campaign’s waning days.
While he noted that Harris “will take credit for some of the administration’s successes,” it’s clear “she has tried to distance herself from the Biden-Harris administration, at least a little bit, in the last several days,” Gutierrez predicted.
“But, again, she is focused on that must-win state of Michigan today, Andrea,” he told the host.
Mitchell agreed and chalked this up as an attempt to fix her previous mistake.
“Yeah, after that misstep about two weeks ago when she was asked if she could think of anything that she would do differently, and she said, no, not really — paraphrasing her,” Mitchell said.
“So, she’s been trying to create more distance now.”
As Harris begins to lose ground in her campaign, she is increasingly eager to shake off Biden’s legacy.
This is likely a smart move, considering that according to the New York Times, the president’s approval rating hovered between 35% and 40% for his entire term.
With her own prospects looking grim, Harris simply can’t afford to be painted with the same brush as Biden.
Although, while many believe it’s still a close race, Trump appears to blow Harris out of the water in the Electoral College map, a RealClearPolitics poll published Monday shows.
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The Harris campaign will have to throw everything it has left if there is any hope to get her over the finish line.
If it means humiliating Biden to pick up a few more votes, so be it.
Harris is in serious trouble heading into Election Day, and everybody knows it.
Her campaign and her surrogates in the media are doing whatever they can to help her, but it’s likely too little too late anyway.