Former Senator and two-time presidential loser Hillary Clinton reportedly trashed US Vice President Kamala Harris behind closed doors.
According to a new report published by The New York Times Clinton claimed that Kamala Harris is not fit to run for the Presidential seat.
Early February, the Times wrote a news article about the Democrats whining that Harris is not a good candidate to run for presidency, with all of them questioning Harris’ leadership abilities.
The report revealed that several top Dem leaders claimed that Harris has not proven that she can be a leader of the Party, let alone the United States.
Among the Democrats who allegedly trashed Harris was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who lamented that Harris “could not win because she does not have the political instincts to clear a primary field,” the Post wrote.
However, a spokesman for Clinton, Nick Merrill said the opposite, claiming that Clinton was strongly supportive of Harris.
The spokesman also added that the two-time presidential loser often spoke with Harris regarding shared experiences of being “a woman in power.”
When Hillary Clinton thinks you’re bad at this…
“Two Democrats recalled private conversations in which former Sec of State Hillary Clinton lamented that Ms. Harris could not win because she does not have the political instincts to clear a primary field” https://t.co/oKzOqVUW4X— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) February 6, 2023
“They have built and maintained a strong bond. Any other characterization is patently false,” he added.
The controversy arose after the Democrats expressed their concerns over Biden, who hinted that he would seek reelection in 2024 due to the latter’s age which prompted their attention to Harris, the current Vice President, arguing that a vote for Mr. Biden may in fact be a vote to put her in the Oval Office.
However, the Dems also questioned Harris political liability for the ticket.
According to John Morgan, a prominent fund-raiser for Democrats, including Mr. Biden, and a former Florida finance chairman for President Bill Clinton, “that will be in my opinion one of the most hard-hitting arguments against Biden. It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘Look, with his age, we have to really think about this.’”
“I can’t think of one thing she’s done except stay out of the way and stand beside him at certain ceremonies,” Morgan added.
In the report of the The New York Times, the media outlet claimed that “the painful reality for Ms. Harris is that in private conversations over the last few months, dozens of Democrats in the White House, on Capitol Hill and around the nation — including some who helped put her on the party’s 2020 ticket — said she had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party, much less the country.”
“Even some Democrats whom her own advisers referred reporters to for supportive quotes confided privately that they had lost hope in her. Through much of the fall, a quiet panic set in among key Democrats about what would happen if President Biden opted not to run for a second term. Most Democrats interviewed, who insisted on anonymity to avoid alienating the White House, said flatly that they did not think Ms. Harris could win the presidency in 2024,” the report added.
