Vice President Kamala Harris can’t even stumble her way through an emergency storm briefing without putting making it all about her.
Let’s rewind the tape.
As Hurricane Milton approached Florida, President Biden hosted a public briefing with a number of high officials.
Reasonable enough.
Harris — who appeared by Zoom for some reason, a bizarre choice in itself — suddenly seemed to be distracted by something behind the camera, raised her hands to cover her mouth and then barked out, “It’s a live broadcast!”
Plainly, she was hushing off-screen staffers who were trying to feed her lines to make it look like she had something useful to add.
A total “Veep” moment (but hardly the first time Harris has channeled the hapless Selina Meyer).
And just the thing to inspire confidence in the frightened people of Florida — and the voters Harris is seeking to win over.
This, after her embarrassing attempt to score a gotcha against Gov. Ron DeSantis (who did a typically excellent job running his state’s disaster readiness and response).
She tried to slam him for refusing to take her calls about the hurricane, absurdly claiming he was playing politics.
Only to be utterly demolished first by DeSantis himself, who pointed out she has nothing to do with disaster relief and had never called about any past hurricanes — and then by Biden, who praised the Florida Republican’s excellent hands-on management.
Harris has put out a video that seems an attempt at damage control, in which a flunky films her speaking on her cellphone from Air Force 2 with St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch ahead of the hurricane hitting.
But as an astute X user pointed out, it’s literally just a clip of her and Welch talking. No useful info, no disaster-prep direction, nada.
A low-budget campaign ad, in other words, exploiting potential (and now very real) suffering of millions.
This is the woman who wants to lead the free world.
A serial word-saladist with an utterly disastrous policy record who has somehow also managed to fumble a tremendous, nonpartisan opportunity to show voters she does care about what happens to them.
Except, of course, she doesn’t.
And in her hurricane debacle as in all else — the border, the economy, everything — it shows.
