CNN tried rebranding former Vice President Kamala Harris about as smoothly as your friend trying to set you up with a girl who’s got a “great personality.” On Friday afternoon’s broadcast of Inside Politics, the commentary bordered on full-on myth-making. Chief domestic affairs correspondent Phil Mattingly was upbeat that Harris could finally be herself, while lamenting was just under pressure, pulled in too many directions, always trying to avoid looking disloyal to Biden.
NOTUS White House correspondent Jasmine Wright called Harris “fun,” as though that quality (if existent in Harris) instantly should redeem her in the eyes of the American public.
Mattingly boasted that Harris was no longer bound by Biden and could finally campaign the way she wanted and was more natural to her:
But it was particularly tough in this campaign where she was constantly pulled from 50 different directions, and throughout had President Biden standing over her or beside her, saying, “Hey, kid, don't– don't– remember our legacy, right? Like, don't– don't be disloyal to me.”
