The administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are not popular and their own party knows it.
And Democrats are concerned that if President Biden decides not to campaign in 2024 that his successor would be Harris who many believe is unelectable, The New York Post reported.
“Her main problem is not being a woman or mixed race, her problem is she has low ratings just like President Biden,” University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato said. “If Biden were riding sky high, she would be doing relatively well as well. She would be seen as a popular successor carrying on a popular president’s mandate.
And donors, who asked The Post to be anonymous so they could say what is on their minds, had similar concerns.
“She seems completely useless. No one involved in this administration should be in the running,” one of the donors said.
Democratic insiders have fretted about Harris’ own bungled 2020 presidential campaign, during which she dropped out in December 2019, with an operation widely derided at the time as disorganized and riven with infighting.
Since being elected, those issues have continued to simmer, with her vice presidential office frequently in the news for staff turnover, with at least a dozen leaving. In April alone she lost her Chief of Staff, Tina Flournoy, and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Fuchs. Staffers have griped anonymously that the mood internally is “dour,” “chaotic,” and that they are “treated like s—t.”-- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."