Is Kamala Harris being set up?

Yesterday, I wrote a piece that largely speculated to that effect (see I Think I’ve Figured out What’s Behind That Weird G7 Photo of Jill Biden). First Lady Jill Biden’s “prepping for the G7” photo was just too out of place and her out-sized ambitions have been too transparent. Connect that with her hatred for Kamala Harris, and things are looking way too deliberate at this point to brush aside as mere chance.

Now, with CNN going after Harris this morning, I’m pretty convinced that I’m right – Kamala Harris is being set up.

"Her shaky handling of the politics around the immigration issue drew new questions about her political dexterity both as vice president and as a future aspirant for the White House, because the trip this week was her first test at the highest levels of statecraft."

Ouch

— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) June 11, 2021

Because it’s CNN, they did include a “Republicans pounce” angle, accusing conservatives who are criticizing her of (gasp) racism, but the overarching theme of the piece is clear – Harris is really bad at this.

I love the grudging admission that Kamala Harris actually sucks at politics and no amount of dismissing that fact or anyone who points it out as racist or sexist can change it. https://t.co/GcwtRXSh0k pic.twitter.com/QeeffzCB7x

— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) June 11, 2021

When I wrote my piece yesterday about Jill Biden and Kamala Harris, I went as far as to suggest the first lady may be setting herself up for a presidential run in 2024. But let’s put that piece of high-altitude speculation off to the side for a moment and focus more on the meat and potatoes of the matter.

Harris has been crashing and burning in regards to the border for weeks. It’s so bad at this point that even the mainstream media are going after her with the kind of veracity you’d never expect. After all, this is Kamala Harris we are talking about, and critical media coverage isn’t supposed to happen. There’s no way a piece like that gets written by CNN without input from the White House.

But here’s the thing – all Joe Biden has to do to save Harris is send her to the border. So why hasn’t he?

Instead, Harris has been left to twist in the wind, thrown into multiple major network interviews without an ability to answer basic inquiries about why she hasn’t gone to personally survey the illegal immigration crisis. There are no actual risks with her going to the border. It’s not like the media are going to suddenly turn on the Biden administration and stop covering up what’s going on. The only real logical conclusion left is that Harris’s disastrous tour wasn’t disastrous by sheer chance.

Don’t get me wrong, Harris is an absolutely awful politician on her own merits. Every embarrassing flub and hysterical cackle of the last week serves as a reminder of why her own presidential campaign was such a failure. Yet, the Biden administration knows she’s incapable of being a likable, competent figure. Instead of helping her and protecting her, they are hanging the border crisis around her neck and throwing her into the deep end with no floaties on. Further, they are negating to do the one thing that could settle a lot of the questions causing Harris so much consternation – just sending her to the border and getting it over with.

Meanwhile, Jill Biden is chilling at the G7, rubbing shoulders with royalty and cosplaying as co-president to the glowing reviews of the media. It’s all just too perfect to be a coincidence at this point. I’m convinced – Harris is the fall guy, and she’s being pushed over the cliff by the very administration she serves.