Kamala Harris’ office rife with dissent

[Anonymous]

I am not at all surprised if this is even partially true, given her presidential campaign.

In interviews, 22 current and former vice presidential aides, administration officials and associates of Harris and Biden described a tense and at times dour office atmosphere. Aides and allies said Flournoy, in an apparent effort to protect Harris, has instead created an insular environment where ideas are ignored or met with harsh dismissals and decisions are dragged out. Often, they said, she refuses to take responsibility for delicate issues and blames staffers for the negative results that ensue.

While much of the ire is aimed at Harris’ chief, two administration officials said the VP herself also bears responsibility for the way her office is run. “It all starts at the top,” said one of the administration officials, who like others requested anonymity to be able to speak candidly about a sensitive matter.

“People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment,” said another person with direct knowledge of how Harris’ office is run. “It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s---.”

The dysfunction in the VP’s ranks threatens to complicate the White House’s carefully crafted image as a place staffed by a close-knit group of professionals working in concert to advance the president’s agenda. It’s pronounced enough that members of the president’s own team have taken notice and are concerned about the way Harris’ staffers are treated.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/kamala-harris-office-dissent-497290

[Anonymous]

I’m shocked, I tell you - shocked!

[Anonymous]

I guess the Biden team is leaking so the Harris team cleans up its act.

[Anonymous]

What's the end game here? I'm intrigued. Why run a hit piece on Kamala now? Are they trying to get her to resign to get someone more popular in place for a 2024 run?

[Anonymous]

Flournoy’s toxic af. This is no secret in DC.

[Anonymous]

So toxic she can’t even feign it.

“We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day. What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club,’” Sanders added.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So toxic she can’t even feign it.

“We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day. What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club,’” Sanders added.

Symone Sanders was forced on the VP team after Bernie lost twice in 2016 and 2020. Honestly I don't know how she got the job seeing as she wasn't a campaign lead for either Biden nor Harris but still thinks she's above the job.

[Anonymous]

The Democrats prove short-sighted again? Is water wet???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So toxic she can’t even feign it.

“We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day. What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club,’” Sanders added.

Symone Sanders was forced on the VP team after Bernie lost twice in 2016 and 2020. Honestly I don't know how she got the job seeing as she wasn't a campaign lead for either Biden nor Harris but still thinks she's above the job.

Um, Symone Sanders was a senior advisor on Biden’s 2020 campaign. She was there the whole time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So toxic she can’t even feign it.

“We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day. What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club,’” Sanders added.

Symone Sanders was forced on the VP team after Bernie lost twice in 2016 and 2020. Honestly I don't know how she got the job seeing as she wasn't a campaign lead for either Biden nor Harris but still thinks she's above the job.

Um, Symone Sanders was a senior advisor on Biden’s 2020 campaign. She was there the whole time.

No. She was not. She joined in April 2020 when the headwinds changed with Covid and a full-year after the official Biden campaign began.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So toxic she can’t even feign it.

“We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day. What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club,’” Sanders added.

Symone Sanders was forced on the VP team after Bernie lost twice in 2016 and 2020. Honestly I don't know how she got the job seeing as she wasn't a campaign lead for either Biden nor Harris but still thinks she's above the job.

Um, Symone Sanders was a senior advisor on Biden’s 2020 campaign. She was there the whole time.

No. She was not. She joined in April 2020 when the headwinds changed with Covid and a full-year after the official Biden campaign began.

No, she joined in April 2019. 2019 and 2020 are different. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/symone-sanders-joe-biden-campaign_n_5cc2141ce4b031dc07efc3f4

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So toxic she can’t even feign it.

“We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day. What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club,’” Sanders added.

Symone Sanders was forced on the VP team after Bernie lost twice in 2016 and 2020. Honestly I don't know how she got the job seeing as she wasn't a campaign lead for either Biden nor Harris but still thinks she's above the job.

Um, Symone Sanders was a senior advisor on Biden’s 2020 campaign. She was there the whole time.

No. She was not. She joined in April 2020 when the headwinds changed with Covid and a full-year after the official Biden campaign began.

No, she joined in April 2019. 2019 and 2020 are different. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/symone-sanders-joe-biden-campaign_n_5cc2141ce4b031dc07efc3f4

Wait, you're right - nevermind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the end game here? I'm intrigued. Why run a hit piece on Kamala now? Are they trying to get her to resign to get someone more popular in place for a 2024 run?

This is run of the mill stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the end game here? I'm intrigued. Why run a hit piece on Kamala now? Are they trying to get her to resign to get someone more popular in place for a 2024 run?

This is run of the mill stuff.

Agreed. Politico is a political gossip outlet. Its a high-end people magazine (that does some great work occassionally). This is fairly standard. Its quite easy to find a staffer whos frustrated and willing to talk a little trash.

On the other hand, Harris is the next in line and the likely nominee in 2024 or 2028. This isn't a good sign.

[Anonymous]

The problems she is having are just like the ones she had during her presidential campaign. Did Joe think these issues would just disappear as his VP?
Different personnel, same problems. Maybe the issues aren't the staff............
I just hope Joe makes it for 4 years.

November 2019

How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled
Ms. Harris is the only 2020 Democrat who has fallen hard out of the top tier of candidates. She has proved to be an uneven campaigner who changes her message and tactics to little effect and has a staff torn into factions.

In early November, a few days after Senator Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign announced widespread layoffs and an intensified focus on Iowa, her senior aides gathered for a staff meeting at their Baltimore headquarters and pelted the campaign manager, Juan Rodriguez, with questions.
UpdateKamala Harris has dropped out of the 2020 race.
What exactly was Ms. Harris’s new strategy? How much money and manpower could they put into Iowa? What would their presence be like in other early voting states?

Mr. Rodriguez offered general, tentative answers that didn’t satisfy the room, according to two campaign officials directly familiar with the conversation. Some Harris aides sitting at the table could barely suppress their fury about what they saw as the undoing of a once-promising campaign. Their feelings were reflected days later by Kelly Mehlenbacher, the state operations director, in a blistering resignation letter obtained by The Times.

“This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly,” Ms. Mehlenbacher wrote, assailing Mr. Rodriguez and Ms. Harris’s sister, Maya, the campaign chairwoman, for laying off aides with no notice. “With less

than 90 days until Iowa we still do not have a real plan to win.”

The 2020 Democratic field has been defined by its turbulence, with some contenders rising, others dropping out and two more jumping in just this month. Yet there is only one candidate who rocketed to the top tier and then plummeted in early state polls to the low single digits: Ms. Harris.

Many of her own advisers are now pointing a finger directly at Ms. Harris. In interviews several of them criticized her for going on the offensive against rivals, only to retreat, and for not firmly choosing a side in the party’s ideological feud between liberals and moderates. She also created an organization with a campaign chairwoman, Maya Harris, who goes unchallenged in part because she is Ms. Harris’s sister, and a manager, Mr. Rodriguez, who could not be replaced without likely triggering the resignations of the candidate’s consulting team. Even at this late date, aides said it’s unclear who’s in charge of the campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/us/politics/kamala-harris-2020.html