As the midterm elections approach, Republicans on the campaign trail are focusing on Vice President Harris as their top political target, The Hill reports.
The assaults on Harris come as Republicans struggle to identify President Biden, who has a better approval rating than his vice president and has mostly avoided significant problems thus far.
Harris, on the other hand, has faced a barrage of critique for everything from her management of the Central American migrant crisis to her recent claim that voter ID laws make voting in remote regions “extremely difficult.”
Simultaneously, Harris has been entrusted with a difficult political task. Harris has been put in charge of a comprehensive legislative push to preserve voting rights, in addition to leading the administration’s attempts to discourage migration at the southern border.
Republicans have attempted to portray the country as being in a deep crisis — including at the southern border and at the voting polls — ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, when Democrats’ narrow House and Senate majorities will be on the line. Her participation in those crucial issues has made her an easy target for Republican politicians.
Republican Andy Barr said Kamala Harris is supposed to address the border issue, but she’s just making things worse. Harris is referred to as “the most extreme liberal politician in history” in another commercial released the same day by the Kentucky Republican.
Democrats claim that Republicans’ assaults on Harris are motivated by desperation and a belief that, as vice president, Harris represents the party’s presumed future. The Republican attack on Harris, according to Aimee Allison, president of She the People, an organization that promotes women of color in politics, is “more cultural than political.”
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