Deploying Vice President Kamala Harris for interviews about rural America is a terrible, ill-fated strategy. Who thought this was a smart idea? What is the White House thinking?
After assuming office in January, the vice president failed to inform Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) she’d be appearing on local TV to push the American Rescue Plan. She callously told a news anchor it’s necessary to displace coal miners from their jobs in order advance clean energy policies. Adding insult to injury, she suggested these energy workers transition into jobs involving reclaimed land mines. Who knew nonexistent reclaimed land mines in West Virginia need tending to?
She said, “All of those skilled workers who are in the coal industry and transferring those skills to what we need to do in terms of dealing with reclaiming abandoned land mines; what we need to do around plugging leaks from oil and gas wells; and, transferring those important skills to the work that has yet to be done that needs to get done.”
Harris is visibly clueless about reclaimed coal mines. Now, she’s doubling down by lecturing rural America about photocopying IDs.
Earth to Madame VP: Stop denigrating rural Americans. Instead, go learn from them.