Christy Kelly, reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, said Arizona voters are not enthusiastic about Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign for president amid President Joe Biden’s decision to abandon his reelection bid.
“Kamala Harris is not well liked. Even among Democrats, she’s not well liked. She has done nothing,” Kelly said on Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Kelly pointed to Harris’ “failed” duty as Biden’s border czar, explaining how Arizonans’ “number one” concern is border security.
“When it comes down to Arizona, our number one concern in Arizona is going to be the border. She was supposed to be the border czar. I think the Democrats were trying to set her up to begin with. I don’t think they ever wanted her to be in line to be president so they give her the most difficult assignment, the most difficult thing that’s hardest for anyone to wrangle in and they give it to her. So I think they actually set her up to fail, but she did indeed fail. She was the border czar. She had never come to Arizona. I think she finally did after being harassed after years as the border czar. Being border czar was her only assignment and she’s done nothing,” Kelly said.
Despite her failure as Biden’s border czar, Kelly pointed out how Harris has shifted her focus on abortion, which is a top issue among Democratic voters.
Arizona, for example, is actively working to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution, Kelly noted.
“Now, Kamala Harris is leaning all in for abortion… She was in Arizona and she did the whole abortion tour because you know the abortion advocates put up 800,000 signatures to get abortion on the ballot to enshrine it into constitutional law, to make it a constitutional right in Arizona,” Kelly explained.
“It’s going to be one of the most expansive abortion bills in the country. It does make it legal almost up to birth. It also makes it to where different providers can give it so it doesn’t have to necessarily be a medical clinic,” Kelly added.
Kelly said Arizonans, if they were to show out to vote in November, would only show out for abortion rights and not because of Harris.
“Are people going to come out for Kamala? I don’t think so. They’re not going to come out for her. What they are going to come out for is the abortion, and then there’s a couple of other things that they put on the ballot propositions,” Kelly said.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
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