{"id":1025092,"date":"2023-08-07T20:04:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1025092"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:04:24","slug":"icymi-boston-globe-column-why-are-republicans-so-obsessed-with-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-boston-globe-column-why-are-republicans-so-obsessed-with-kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Boston Globe Column: Why are Republicans so obsessed with Kamala Harris?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Point: <\/strong>\u201cAfter two years of harsh scrutiny about her role \u2014 something that has rarely dogged other vice presidents \u2014 Harris\u2019s tenacity, passion for bedrock Democratic issues, and ability to connect with an audience is a reminder why Biden chose her as his running mate in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/08\/06\/opinion\/renee-graham-kamala-harris-approval-rating\/\"><strong>Boston Globe<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Column: Why are Republicans so obsessed with Kamala Harris?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Ren\u00e9e Graham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Republicans gleefully share every poll that claims Vice President Kamala Harris has the worst ratings of any person to hold the position she currently occupies. They can\u2019t stop talking about her.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why are Republicans so obsessed with Harris?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One would think that DeSantis and Haley, who, like their fellow Republican presidential candidates, are getting steamrolled by Donald Trump, would be spending more time attacking the former president. Instead, they\u2019re fixated on Harris, whom the Biden administration is deploying as their rapid response person to fight Republican attacks on American history, abortion rights, and democracy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After two years of harsh scrutiny about her role \u2014 something that has rarely dogged other vice presidents \u2014 Harris\u2019s tenacity, passion for bedrock Democratic issues, and ability to connect with an audience is a reminder why Biden chose her as his running mate in 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the knock on Harris was that she was spending too much time in the Washington, D.C., bubble, she has flipped the script and is racking up miles on the road. That included a stop in Boston for a conversation with Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell at the NAACP\u2019s recent national convention.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When Tennessee\u2019s Republican-led state legislature expelled two Black lawmakers, both Democrats, for protesting their state\u2019s refusal to discuss gun reform after a mass shooting at a Nashville school in March, Harris traveled there to voice her support.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cPeople were inspired by what they heard. They were motivated by what they heard. It brought some sense of revival,\u201d Justin Jones, one of the expelled \u2014 and later reinstated \u2014 state representatives, told CNN. \u201cIt gave us some more flames to what was already burning here.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That same strategy worked last fall when Harris made the conservative-led Supreme Court\u2019s dismantling of nearly 50 years of settled law on abortion a centerpiece of the 2022 midterm elections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>While others claimed that voters were more focused on the economy, the erosion of abortion access had a major impact at the ballot box. Democrats lost the House by less than predicted and held onto the Senate and even picked up a seat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If Harris were ineffective, she wouldn\u2019t be drawing as much \u2014 in some cases even more \u2014 ire from Republican presidential candidates as Biden does.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now her own party is embracing Harris\u2019s role and her effectiveness in promoting the Biden agenda through her focus on racial justice, reproductive rights, gun reform, and democracy. Meanwhile, Haley and DeSantis are so desperate, they\u2019re trying to provoke fights with her to help revive their fading presidential prospects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Responding to DeSantis\u2019s debate invitation, Harris tweeted, \u201cThere is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate the undeniable fact: There were no redeeming qualities to slavery.\u201d She added, \u201cExtremists attempt to divide our nation with unnecessary debates. But I have news for them: We will not be distracted \u2014 and we will not be deterred.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the road and in Washington D.C., a renewed Harris is doing what she can to make sure that won\u2019t happen as the administration and the nation careens toward the perilous waters of 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cAfter two years of harsh scrutiny about her role \u2014 something that has rarely dogged other vice presidents \u2014 Harris\u2019s tenacity, passion for bedrock Democratic issues, and ability to connect with an audience is a reminder why Biden chose her as his running mate in 2020.\u201d Boston Globe: Column: Why are Republicans so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Boston Globe Column: Why are Republicans so obsessed with Kamala Harris? 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