California Governor Who Worked With Kamala Harris Declines to Comment on Her After Praising Biden
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Former California Governor Jerry Brown (D) declined to comment on Vice President Kamala Harris after praising President Joe Biden as the “man of the hour” during an interview with NBC News.
Brown served as governor from 2011-2019, and for the entirety of Harris’s tenure as the Golden State’s attorney general (2011-2017).
During his conversation with NBC’s Peter Nicholas, Brown opined on a wide variety of topics, including the United States’ relationship with China, the media, and the 2024 presidential election.
Brown, who is 85 years old himself, expressed some consternation over the public’s “disquiet” over Biden’s age, but nevertheless declared that “he has nothing to worry about” cognitively “until he gets be 85” and that he is “the man of the hour.”
Asked about Harris, however, he had no such jokes. From Nicholas’s report:
Asked his view of Vice President Kamala Harris, who got her start in California politics, Brown stiffened a bit. The garrulous ex-governor who freely opined on U.S.-Chinese relations, global threats and even Gregorian chants (keep reading) had nothing at all to share about a fellow Californian who is next in the line of presidential succession.
“I do not have a thought on that topic,” he said.
The garrulous ex-governor who freely opined on U.S.-Chinese relations, global threats and even Gregorian chants (keep reading) had nothing at all to share about a fellow Californian who is next in the line of presidential succession.
“I do not have a thought on that topic.”
— Peter Nicholas (@Petereporter) November 20, 2023
Harris has been the subject of considerable criticism since becoming vice president, registering historically low approval ratings from the veep slot and failing to carve out a consistent role for herself.
The RealClearPolitics average of polls testing Harris’s job approval rating suggests that she’s underwater by over 20 points, eclipsing even her boss’s dismal numbers.
A series of recent polls have also indicated that former President Donald Trump would best the Biden-Harris ticket in a rematch of the 2020 race.
