The only harbinger of doom worse for leftist Democrats than President Joe Biden’s slumping approval rating is the absolutely titanic sinking of confidence in Vice President Kamala Harris, who half of likely voters view as “very unfavorable,” according to a recent Rasmussen Report poll.
The same poll found that just 39 percent of likely voters have a favorable impression of Harris. And that’s an improvement from the 28 percent approval rating she previously pulled, which marked a historic low for any modern vice president.
So naturally, when callers to Spanish-language talk shows in Florida unleash a torrent of criticism of Harris, it has to be the nefarious work of Republican operatives orchestrating “a larger, astroturf effort to diminish Harris’ standing among key Latino constituencies in a region where Republicans have notched sharp gains.”
That’s the laughably ludicrous and totally unsubstantiated conclusion reached by a piece of alleged journalism from Politico.
“Florida Democrats are sounding alarms over what they believe is a sustained and coordinated campaign rapidly unfolding across Spanish-language media to tarnish the image of Vice President Kamala Harris,” the article proclaimed, and spent multiple paragraphs quoting Democrat operatives who are scrambling to cover for Harris.
It wasn’t until deep into the article that Politico admitted, “There is no definitive proof of a coordinated campaign attacking Harris on South Florida radio, as opposed to organic criticism of her conveyed by regular callers.”
The frenzied article reached a peak when it quoted one caller describing Harris as “inefficient” and “disappointing,” adding that the vice president “doesn’t do nothing at all” and accusing the Biden administration of “poorly managing the economy.”
“In recent days,” the article noted, “a POLITICO reporter also heard callers on other Miami-based Spanish-language programs using similar phrases to describe Harris.”
Maybe, and just spitballing here, but maybe those sentiments are reflecting Harris’s profoundly flawed job performance and plummeting poll numbers; reality, in other words, and not some crackpot conspiracy about astroturfed phone-bank campaigns.
Giancarlo Sopo, a public relations strategist who worked with former President Donald Trump’s campaign, took to Twitter and eviscerated the shabby article.
“Florida Democrat political operatives want donors to fund BS “anti misinformation” projects there,” Sopo wrote. “In other words, a grift — and not a smart one.”
Another explanation from Sopo also rings true.
“Democrats are panicking about their Hispanic problem,” he wrote, “and need “misinformation” conspiracy theories as an excuse for their failures and a pretext to censor speech.
“Of course, the core problem here is that Democrats believe Hispanics owe them their vote,” he concluded. “We don’t, and these hysterics remind us why we will not vote for them: they are incompetent, censorious clowns.”
