Allies defend Harris after critical New York Times piece

Vice President Harris’s allies rallied around her on Monday in response to a New York Times story in which Democratic officials, many anonymously, questioned her work in office thus far and whether she could be the standard-bearer for the party moving forward. 

The Times reported that “dozens of Democrats in the White House, on Capitol Hill and around the nation — including some who helped put her on the party’s 2020 ticket — said she had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party, much less the country.”

The piece included an on-the-record quote from John Morgan, a Democratic fundraiser, in which he suggested Harris’s readiness to serve as president would be a major attack line against President Biden in the 2024 election cycle.

“There’s no shortage of people willing to throw shade anonymously and seemingly no shortage of publications willing to write it up and recycle beltway gossip,” tweeted Kirsten Allen, Harris’s press secretary, in response to the article.