Aides & White House Staffers Sound The ALARM: “She Ain’t Made For This”

“She ain’t made for this.”

According to a recent article in the Daily Caller, that was just one of the many blunt statements made by senior White House staffers to the authors of a book which first hit bookshelves 8 months ago, but is only now getting renewed attention.

The book I’m referring to, titled, “The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party”, is described in a recent story on the Daily Caller as follows:

A book written by progressives, about progressives, blasted Kamala Harris at a time when political observers speculated whether she would be replaced as Joe Biden’s vice president. In it, White House aides outlined Harris’s inability to define a political agenda and her total reliance on personality.

Now, with Harris in a tight race for the presidency with Donald Trump, the book has been resurfaced eight months after its release.

The blunt description I opened with appears later on in that same article:

“…nearly all of the information regarding her presidential plans have come from anonymous staffers’ slow-drip leaks to news outlets.

Her lack of concrete proposals and continued reliance on charisma and vibes continue a pattern her aides said made her unfit for the presidency.

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“Kamala is not ready for prime time,” a senior White House staffer told the authors. “She ain’t made for this.”

For a quick “fact check” on the claim of leaks coming from inside the Harris-Walz campaign, check this out:

Now back to the book that is starting to garner a little more spotlight than it did upon first hitting the shelves.

It was written by Hunter Walker (an investigative reporter for Talking Points Memo) and Luppe B. Luppen (a lawyer and writer in New York City).  And let me tell you – they didn’t pull any punches when it came time to publish.

In a nutshell, Kamala Harris was described as an absolute villain in almost every instance from cover to cover of their book.

Kamala Harris: “As a woman, there’s a balance to be struck between being tough, and being a bitch.” pic.twitter.com/zVdP6mv2gb

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(Funny how you can barely find a news outlet willing to talk about that particular book, isn’t it?)

One of the stories referenced involves Kelly Mehlenbacher, who up until November of 2019 was a key player in Kamala’s first campaign for president.  The Daily Caller I referenced above related the story as follows:

In November 2019, the campaign’s state operations manager Kelly Mehlenbacher resigned in a scathing letter that was leaked to The New York Times.

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“This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly,” she wrote.

“…because we have refused to confront our mistakes, foster an environment of critical thinking and honest feedback, or trust the expertise of talented staff, we find ourselves making the same unforced errors over and over,” Mehlenbacher wrote.

You can read Mehlenbacher’s full letter by clicking HERE.

At one point, a divide between the campaign chair (Maya, Kamala’s sister) and her campaign manager was so tense that the two would hold meetings for the same purpose, completely independent of each other – with absolutely no relief or leadership from Kamala.

The divide between Rodriguez and Maya Harris became so toxic they moved to opposite wings of campaign headquarters and would hold separate meetings with staff.

“It was the most awkward day of my life,” a senior staffer told the authors. “People were literally having a thirty-minute audit meeting with Juan about how the campaign was going and then they were walking across the hall into the same meeting with Maya … I remember Juan popping into my office to find out how the meeting with Maya went.”

The books’ authors, who were privy to both campaign and White House staffers with stories to tell, summed up the situation as consistently bad — not just an occasional hiccup along the way; and issues predating the campaign were brought to the surface as well.

Rather than an isolated incident unique to her presidential campaign, the book’s authors say reports of toxicity came from staffers who worked with her in San Francisco, in the Senate, her presidential campaign and as Vice President.

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The complaints “came from sources who signed up to work for her and, at least at one point, wanted her to succeed. It’s impossible to dismiss all of their critiques as entirely the result of prejudice,” they wrote.

One unnamed staffer described working for her as being like “Game of Thrones.”

I can remember reading reports that trickled out through news sources willing to report it at the time — whispers about the atrocious turnover rate in her office.  According to the book, as Vice President her turnover rate was far beyond what was being talked about; a whopping 91.5 percent.

Kamala Harris has a 92% turnover of her staff who claim she is difficult to work with. Would you want to work for Harris? pic.twitter.com/Ff9WA8RNVD

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Imagine a retail shop with 91.5 percent turnover, or a military, or — any organization at all!  Those are impossible numbers to work with!  And this is who the Democratic Party wants to put in the White House?  (Again!?)

The fact that so many people in the know about her inability to lead and keep the peace (in her own office!) are unwilling to come forward NOW, in opposition to the king-makers in the DNC, and highlight Kamala’s complete ineffectiveness as a leader is very reminiscent of the years-long coverup of Joe Biden’s inability to fully carry out his duties as President.

Is there any difference, actually?  Not practically, that I can see.

The book includes another section, according to the same Daily Caller article, describing the panic among those in the inner circle once she was selected as Biden’s VP running mate:

In fact, she was so deeply unpopular that left-friendly pundits suggested Biden replace her on the ticket.

“Biden could encourage a more open vice-presidential selection process that could produce a stronger running mate,” Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wrote in September 2023.

At the time, her favorability ratings hovered between 39 and 40 percent, according to polling site fivethirtyeight.com.

Others, like New York Magazine’s Eric Levitz, suggested Biden swap her out for the likes of Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Democratic Senators Raphael Warnock of Georgia or Tammy Duckworth of Illinois.

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Her lack of policy positions meant she was leaning heavily on her charisma, something those close to her questioned.

“Harris struggled to decide what she was offering voters beyond her compelling persona,” the book’s authors wrote.

“That’s a lot of the reason people supported her,” a senior staffer said. “But you’ve got to back that up with ‘What are you going to do?’”

Isn’t that exactly where we are with Kamala right now?  You can smile all day, cackle that wild cackle, and try to seem like just another one of “us” — McDonald’s work experience included.  (Except… as we’re recently reported, that seems to have been an altogether empty claim.)

KAMALA HARRIS: “That is called Bidenomics…

**horrendous cackling**

…and we are very proud of Bidenomics!” pic.twitter.com/amc0aJb3UM

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 5, 2024

But at the end of the day, that question has to be answered.  If you’re going to seek the highest office in the land, you’re going to need more than a smile and a wild cackling laugh.  You need to be able to answer that question, even when the circumstances are hard — but at the very least, when the circumstances are hypothetical, during the campaign.

“What are you doing to do?”  The problem for Kamala is, it is neither hypothetical, nor easy, what she is seeking.  She is already in the White House.  So the question of what she will do… doesn’t really depend on her answer.  She’s already shown us.  It just takes voters with eyes to see, what she has already failed to do — and will likely fail to do, again, if she is given the chance.