“I hear from others who know her a lot better than I do that many think she’s not well positioned,” Phillips said “She is not well-prepared, doesn’t have the right disposition and the right competencies to execute that office.” Phillips also said that “Harris’s approval numbers are even worse than Biden’s.”
“It’s pretty clear that she’s not somebody people have faith in,” the congressman said.
While Phillips’ comments are a commonly-held feeling by most Americans, he drew fire for the jab on social media; some even called for an apology.
“Dean Phillips should apologize – hiding behind the well worn ‘people are saying’ and leaning in to gossip over your own experience for the sake of scoring cheap political points is not leadership,” said CNN commentator and Democratic strategist Karen Finney on X.
“Apparently Dean Phillips is floundering so hard that he’s now resorting to attacking Vice-President Harris. He better keep the VP’s name out of his mouth and apologize. No one will support him so he’s going to torch his entire reputation on the way out. Sad to see,” Robert Garcia, former mayor of Long Beach, Calif., wrote on X.
Phillips also said that he thinks former President Trump will select Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now running as an independent, as his eventual running mate. “And they will be very difficult to beat,” Phillips said on a CNN interview on Tuesday night.
Conservative radio host Bo Snarly shared the story on X, saying “that’s a ‘brutal dig’? That’s a very mild assessment – given what is regularly said about her tenure.”
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