In interviews, more than a dozen Democratic leaders and activists expressed misgivings about Kamala Harris at the top of the Democratic Party. Many Democrats “don’t know enough about what she’s doing,” one leader said.
saw a record number of Black candidates for Senate and governor, several of them victorious, including Moore in Maryland and Sen. Raphael G. Warnock in Georgia. But failures are also etched into the Democrats’ memory, including Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton, the first woman to lead a major party ticket, and Abrams’s two losses in her effort to become the nation’s first Black female governor.Harris’s office declined to comment for this story.
“She doesn’t walk around screaming, ‘I’m a Black woman, hear me roar,’ but she’s shown she’s able to handle whatever situation they ask her to participate in,” said Brenda Lee Pryce, a former South Carolina state legislator. She added, “There’s no doubt that Black women will support her 100 percent-plus, and we also have our White women who are very much pro-Kamala.”
That moment sparked a debate among senior members of the vice president’s team about whether such interviews hurt more than they help, Harris’s advisers said privately. For months afterward, Harris treated such interviews warily, arguably depriving her of a wider audience and a bigger impact.That skittishness has continued. One Democratic leader in Wisconsin said she is surprised that Harris had not spent more time there recently, given its electoral importance.
Harris’s team, aware of her stumbles, has signaled any number of “resets” to suggest that the vice president is about to hit her stride. Harris officials say Jamal Simmons, Harris’s second communications director, was brought in to in part address the visibility issue, and he tried to increase the vice president’s travel, encouraging her to meet with key constituency groups across the country.
Harris’s aides are once again suggesting her profile will grow in coming months, as Biden launches his campaign and now that Democrats have a 51-49 majority in the Senate so she will not be called on to break ties as frequently. Her supporters also see her advocacy for“The right of every woman in every state, in this country, to make decisions about her own body is on the line,” Harris said at a rally in Tallahassee last week.
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