Kamala Harris's staff embarrassed about her performance

 Monica Showalter:

Kamala Harris's staff seem embarrassed in the wake of her first blundering trip abroad to Mexico and Guatemala, and once again, they're leaking it to the press.

According to the New York Post:

Biden administration officials are "quietly perplexed" about Vice President Kamala Harris' fumbling multiple questions about the border and are concerned her unforced errors will overshadow her first international trip, according to a report.

Speaking to CNN, administration officials discussed how the question of visiting the border dogged Harris for the whole trip, with her answer to NBC News' Lester Holt stealing the spotlight from her work.

They're not angry at the press; they're embarrassed about her and her inability to answer a simple question from CBS's fawning Lester Holt (a newsman who views fairness in news coverage as overrated), and very likely wanted to make Harris look good.  The Harris blunders were stealing the spotlight, they said, as if that trip, which Harris herself said was to bring "hope," had any substance whatsoever. 

Harris in fact had made a public relations trip to cover up for her failure to manage the border crisis and, as a matter of fact, visit the border.  It was fluff.  It was ceremony, lots of photos of her walking down airplane steps in exotic foreign lands and walking the red carpets with soldiers in full dress uniform at her side.  Lots of podium speeches at ornate Latin American presidential palaces, the architecture and bunting in the background looking grand.  That was her job, looking good for the cameras, and being Instagram-obsessed, she seemed to be typecast for the role.

Yet she couldn't even do that.

At her appearance in Guatemala, she showed up looking haggard, with clumped, dirty hair and apparently no makeup, as if the luxury-amenities-laden trip were too much work for her, and her 184-person staff couldn't find even one person to do her hair and makeup for the camera-focused trip. 

Sure, she claimed her trip was about finding "root causes," about substance, but what substance?

The president of Guatemala told her the same things the sheriffs of Arizona and Texas are trying to tell her — that Joe Biden issued an invitation to would-be illegal border crossers, and they took him up on it.

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I am not sure why they were surprised.  She was a terrible candidate and has not gotten any better since being selected as the VP.  The Democrats have a doddering senile man as their President and VP who looks less prepared for the job than a Valley Girl.  It should be dawning on voters what a fraud Democrats pulled on them in 2020.