Kamala Harris still not looking good on campaign trail

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This is obviously a rehabilitation campaign, an attempt by Harris to put herself back in the news and make the case that she’s a credible front-runner for the 2028 Democrat presidential nomination. But given how the book tour has been going already, it couldn’t be clearer that Harris is lacking the skillset to win a competitive election. Her only real political talent appears to be in navigating the Byzantine identity machine politics of the DEI-obsessed Democratic Party. And she couldn’t even pull that off.

This was all on display in Harris’ disastrous interview with friendly MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

Few politicians that I can remember have been better at flubbing softball interviews.

Harris delivered a series of trademark word salads to questions that she presumably had months to prepare for.

One of the tougher questions she faced was about a comment in her book that while she liked former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, she didn’t pick him as her veep because it was too risky to put a gay man on the ticket.

Now, I think there are many reasons that Buttigieg would have been a poor vice-presidential choice. The former mayor’s tenure at the Department of Transportation was hardly sparkling and his most notable initiative was a $1 billion project to fight racist roads.

But apparently the decision came down to the issue of him simply being gay and how that played with voters.

Maddow, who is a lesbian, pushed Harris on the issue.

“It’s hard to hear with you running as, you know, you’re the first elected vice president, a black woman and a south Asian woman elected to that high office, very nearly elected president, to say that he couldn’t be on the ticket effectively because he was gay is hard to hear,” Maddow said.

Harris then started spinning, saying that this wasn’t what she said in her book, but bringing a gay man on her ticket in the 107 days she had to run for president against Trump would have been “a real risk.”

I’m not sure what the short time frame had to do with Buttigieg being such a risk or what that has to do with Trump, who has had gay men in his Cabinet in his first and second term, but there it is, I guess.

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Being gay was not the reason Buttigieg was a poor candidate.  He was just not an impressive politician.  Harris never came across as a smart person, either.  In fact, she often looked like a dingbat.