Del Beccaro: From tell all to end all: Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 5 big career mistakes
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has released her tell-all book about the 2024 campaign. While it may make for good gossip, it’s a decided failure when it comes to her political future. Indeed, it is just one more major mistake that will keep her out of the 2028 campaign.
Keep in mind that Harris has had a charmed life. From her upper-middle class upbringing in California, to her silver-spooned resume as San Francisco district attorney, California attorney general, U.S. senator and vice president, she has acquired quite a resume.
What she hasn’t built is credibility as a leader — and her latest book only makes that matter worse.
As the great Reagan biographer Craig Shirley recently reminded us, successful politics is a game of addition. With her latest book, “107 Days,” which is a tell-all about her 2024 presidential campaign, Harris reminds everyone that she never understood that basic principle.
Here are five major career mistakes along those lines and why they spell doom for any 2028 presidential hopes.
5. Harris’ “Political” Breakup With Willy Brown.
The world knows about Kamala Harris’ romantic relationship with Willy Brown. However, many likely don’t know that Brown used to provide Harris with sage advice for her career. Willy Brown was, and remains, a smart politician. As a leader in California politics, he got things done and never let ideology or partisanship stop him. He was a practical politician.
Brown essentially made her the San Francisco district attorney and while she listened to him, Harris was not too far left. Indeed, while she was campaigning in 2019, Harris had to distance herself from her middle of the road record as a DA.
The farther Harris has traveled from Brown, including an unceremonious political breakup, the farther left Harris became and the less practical — losing independents along the way.
