Kayleigh McEnany derides Kamala Harris for blaming Biden White House for bad reputation

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany scoffed at former Vice President Kamala Harris after she blamed her old boss for her unpopularity.

Excerpts of Harris’ new memoir, “107 Days,” where she appeared frustrated with former President Joe Biden’s administration and stated that she unfairly “shouldered blame” for the border crisis. McEnany said on “Fox & Friends” that Harris cannot take any accountability for her own “incompetence” while vice president.

“‘Intractable,’ false. ‘Bipartisan cooperation,’ false. Within the first 100 days of President Trump becoming president, he took executive action. Democrats didn’t work with him, this wasn’t an intractable problem,” McEnany said. “He solved it. He shut down people coming across the border, got-aways, he solved the problem with a pen.”

“She could’ve advocated for the same,” McEnancy continued, turning her sights on Harris directly. “And don’t tell me the president’s staff didn’t advocate for you. In fact, the president’s staff saw your incompetence. That’s why there were whispers around the West Wing about Pete Buttigeig being the actual successor. There are stories about this, and not Kamala Harris. They saw incompetence. That is not a problem of the president, that is a problem that is deeply personal.”

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Biden appointed Harris as the “border czar” to address the root causes of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. Under Harris’ leadership, border crossings reached historically high levels by exceeding 3 million encounters in the 2023 fiscal year, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Harris then accused Biden’s staff of “adding fuel to negative narratives” about her staff turnover and her success on the job. McEnany did not buy into this claim.

“Look, [Harris] had a 92% staff turnover rate … and you don’t hear these kinds of leaks during the four years about President Trump about the vice president, you don’t hear this about J.D. Vance, this is unique to Kamala Harris,” McEnany continued. “It’s not because she’s a woman, it’s because she was given many problems she did not have the wherewithal to solve. It’s because she was given many opportunities on camera and we got viral embarrassment. And I don’t say that proudly, I would love for a female vice president to succeed. But she simply was not cut out for the job, we all saw that on the campaign trail.”

Harris’ net approval rating as vice president reached a record low of -17 points in 2023, the lowest in the history of the NBC News poll. White House aides called out Harris’ inability to define a political agenda and said she was not cut out for the job in a book released before the 2024 election.

Harris lost every single swing state to President Donald Trump and became the first Democrat in twenty years to lose the popular vote.

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